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The new math gets to us almost certainty? >> i would like to put my life -- wouldnt like to put my life 100% on it. i think given the significant lack of evidence we have had so far, i think this is the most promising lead we have got and we need to treat it with respect and follow it up. i think going -- following on from what richard was saying, it all revolves around the acars. when the acars is powered on through the battery master switch in an air field, it will talk via vhf. so if you imag...

Exit malaysian air space, which is sort of the odd scenario and acars system. then the route is completely turned around dramatically. that suggests that either the pilot intentionally did it for whatever reason or that something was happening in the cockpit on the airplane with some possibly some of the passengers. we cant rule out the possibility of a passengers -- of a terrorist link to that. but one thing we do know for certain, the transponders turned off and acars routes changed. what caus...

Goggles, for me this is not a plausible option and not what we should be looking at. it is taking people right down the wrong route. we should be concentrating on the facts, getting back to whether the transponders and acars has been and focusing on that. this is pie in the sky. >> les? >> orchestrating something -- somebody is on the same route, it might be semiplausible. but the way this scenario was going out, there was a triangulation that had the airplane had to catch, just too much. >> bef...

Not able to be located due to weather and other obvious obstacles, did we not know this on friday, the likelihood that the aircraft had ended, as they are putting it today? >> ill tell you what that was. the whole business of the northern arc that went up to kazakhstan and so forth over the himalayas and the southern arc into the indian ocean, all that was based on the plane is not communicating with ground, except there are these signals being sent out by the acars system that goes up and inter...

Piece together this puzzle really is finding that first piece of debris. >> right. in a way, this doesnt move us closer to answering any mysteries. we have just reinforced the idea this is where we should be looking. i think this is actually going to put more pressure on the searchers to find something and really try to bring some closure. this is a brutal, brutal process for the people whose loved ones were on that plane and for all the world watch to go try to solve this mystery. when air fran...

Disappeared. nearly eight hours after takeoff and seven hours after air traffic control lost track of the aircraft. but still, no answers as to where it was going or why. the search is expanded to a daunting area off malaysias west coast, including a northern and southern track in the indian ocean. sunday, march 16. authorities claim the planes communication system known as acars, was disabled before the pilots last words to air traffic control, leading to questions about why the crew did not ra...

Would have been able to make it to pakistan. could it remain stealthy and undetected? the acars was turned off. the transponder was turned off. i do believe that the indian radar may have picked it up, i do believe it would be quite difficult to get the aircraft to pakistan, in my opinion. >> let me ask this, the fact that the transponders were turned off, i mean, you have flown the 777. is that something that a person could just accidentally do, some doofs in the cockpit hitting the button, or ...

If its underwater, beacons attached to the voice recorders are still transmitting acoustic pulses or "pings." however -- >> at the end of 30 days, the batteries will be at the end of their design life. >> another form of guidance is acars. >> its a common piece of communication equipments on all planes. its that system that sends down a lot of information about how the engines are performing and how other systems are disablged. >> periodic pings are picked up allowing triangulation of positions ...

Their financial situation. all of these can build to the clues that are already out there. >> would you look at the cockpit? >> yes, i would. if you look -- to be an investigator, you have an open mind and i would look at the cockpit because right now with the facts we have, which have been inaccurate. you can probably rule out terrorism, hijacking for the most part. the probabilities right now are the cockpit, someone was in control of that aircraft, someone turned it, nobody communicated, some...

The critical moments before the plane went down. saturday, march 8th, 12:41 a.m. local time, flight 370 takes off heading for beijing. the boeing 777 is carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew on board. at 1:07 a.m., acars sends its final transmission. it measures thousands of pieces of information about the plane and pilots performance and sends it via satellite. we now know the plane remained on course for beijing, contradicting earlier reports that the pilots changed the flight path before sendin...