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Frances investigators their first clues of what went wrong. on flight 370, the acars system has been disabled. >> to disable the acars system tharks is not easy. pilots who fly for 30 years are stumped on how they would disable the acar system. >> the evidence right now leads us to believe it was an intentional act. the question is, by who? we were there. your first roll, your first friend, we were there too. and swaddlers blanket-like softness, that youve loved since day one, is now available t...

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 is that something that requires ...

Changed the track of the airplane. the other one disabled a data link system known as acars but only the data stopped flowing. the acars system continued to talk to the satellite network. >> right. ive had some pilots say well, you know, a fire could have broken out and that could have disabled the transponders but if a fire broke out, it wouldnt be delivering signals the next eight hours, right? so we can rule out a fire on the plane? >> well, lets not rule anything out. lets do this. lets say ...

Network, 4g, verizon, whatever it is. thats the way it works. we know it was switched off. and incidentally, i have spoken to many, many friends who fly on many of the airline carriers, and i said, guys, how do you switch the acars off in the cockpit and i got blank looks. they power on the aircraft when they get in and the acars automatically comes on. i said, how could you? they said maybe a circuit breaker, but didnt know the consequences of pulling the circuit breaker that. was fascinating. ...

Like to ask the malaysian military authorities what radar theyre using in order to give thus altitude information, because the altitude information will be key to where we go next. otherwise, it is supposition. >> youre shaking your head in agreement, jeff wise. >> i heard from my sources too that primary radar is very inaccurate at determining altitude. and, you know, again, i think the point you raise is excellent, don, why are we hearing about this now? especially in the context of these conf...

Position here, okay, that is where the inmarsat satellite is. it stays in that position all the time. the acars on the airplane uses this for communication, primarily when its on the ground it uses vhs communication. when it gets over the ocean, the vhf communications drop and the acars selects the sat-come, which is the satellite. it acts like a mobile phone. when your mobile phone is at home, it automatically locks on to wi-fi. when you walk out, it locks on to the network. thats what this has...

Heard a garbled communication from that plane, but all of that was difficult to reconcile from the time the reports were that pilots put in this turn and were intending, based on input of data, were intending some kind of a turn and their last communication was 12 minutes, and that didnt jive with anything because if youre fighting for control of your aircraft, if youre fighting for your life, youre going to try to let somebody know. now if it wasnt preprogrammed, what you do not have, you do no...

And what it was that they were practicing. so we get some idea of what they were thinking. >> as with any potentially criminal probe, an fbi forensics team in virginia will soon attempt to match any data recovered with the real lives of the pilot and co-pilot, e-mails, texts, known associates, policies, and personal histories. meantime, the search has remained fruitless, costing millions of dollars. as anguished loved ones wait, but without a working transponder or acars communication system and...

We badly need a system -- streaming system, live streaming whats going on in the plane. that can be done. >> we talked to analysts and experts about the cost, seemingly manageable cost. >> $1500 a month. bring that down per passengers its cents. >> okay. certainly something to think. as we focus now if i could speak to the panel as well on just the investigation here, it seems that weve seen all the information investigators have. as you look at this, are there any other promising paths where be...

Doing at any time and it sends it to the ground. acars sent the last transmission at 1:07 a.m. it was expected to send another transmission at 1:37 a.m. but that never happened. malaysian officials said they dont know exactly when the acars systems went off in that 30-minute window. we did learn when it sent last communication there was nothing to indicate in the last communication pilots preprogrammed the turn to the west of thats one of todays key new developments. i want to bring back panel, ...