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Transponder and the acars actually zoned in a little bit. but the positive thing the black boxes were under the ocean for two years before they were discovered. and that means the gps which has a 30-day battery life would have run out. >> we had a smaller indication where it went down, that is a huge difference, two years later. >> exactly, as mike points out. >> and from facebook, dan writes, if flight 370 continues to go undiscovered, how much longer will they search? >> sal, i imagine they ha...

Plot? >> well, first, uma, thanks for having me. i think the important thing why i continue to believe that its a northern route and a terrorist is involved, because the tapes that were just released that james talked about did not indicate that there was a different person transmitting. in other words, it was the co-pilot who was making these transmissions from start, taxi, takeoff, climb, transfer, from departure control to en route control. and so that means in that 28 minutes they had on the...

Fire came into the avionics compartment, it could possibly explain then the time line of the transponder shutting off, the acars shutting off, the pilots turning back. were taught from day one, ave yat, navigate and then communicate. i know a lot of people are questioning, why didnt they get a mayday distress signal out in time. they may not have had time unfortunately, thats whats concerning me at this point, that more focus is not being put in that direction. >> what about the possibility of d...

>> differ between the acars system. >> it is nothing anything in the cockpit. not like a cctv camera in the cockpit that they tape over to avoid them being spotted. the greatest thing a hijacker would be worried about would be the satellite would somehow see what was going on. thats not the case with the acars at all. >> so far and maybe im cherry picking from the columns that i read from you, you are not casting aspersions on the pilots. >> in this case, it is swung to the technical. what i hav...

Ladies in the cockpit? >> first off, i guess im the guest thats going to disagree with richard. i think this transcript is very significant, and im looking down only because im looking at the transcript. the bottom line here is, at the time of the first handoff when they took off from the tower to the kuala lumpur radar atc, the co-pilot repeated the frequency, 132.6. as you move down the line, we get into what i believe to be the accident sequence. at 1:07, acars did the last report. we have th...

The position and altitude of the aircraft is continuously reported, and it cannot be, that capability cannot be disabled. >> and that is, im glad you brought up that topic, because it is another question that i am getting frequently over twitter which is what can airlines do to prevent a giant airliner from disappearing under such mysterious circumstances. keep the data stream flowing and what measures could they take to keep it from happening down the line. this is a question that came from ziy...

Try to get a visual. take a look at what we are going to see over the next 48 hours or so with this. here we go. we have a little more cloud cover that is in the area now. this is the future radar and satellite and that white indicates cloud cover. the green indicates precipitation. and as we move forward over the next 24 hours this front gets mighty close to it, about 24 hours from now. so the winds will increase, which makes it much more difficult for the planes. it also makes the planes becom...

Right. as soon as there is a fire on board, as a pilot you want to get that aircraft back safely on the ground as soon as possible. >> is there some protocol pilot takes over the flying and the co-pilot -- he had communication after the acars was either shut down deliberately or from some fire or something, i mean, he certainly was still commune case. there was some time of communication. isnt there protocol in the cockpit for that? >> there is. the nonflying pilot or the pilot not at the contro...

Decompression and loss of structural integrity of the airplane. now, we dont know at all if this had that equipment or if indeed this plane was inspected. what are the possibilities of that happening? they have a problem, they start to turn back, and they cant make it? >> well, the only thing i have with that is, i believe most airplanes have that big round antenna on top of the fuselage. that doesnt then explain the transponder turning off, the acars stopping transmitting signals. if theres a r...

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 raise this issue. but the timing of the acars shut down would later be call...