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Find it on a timely -- in a timely manner? >> well, first of all, aircraft are normally tracked through acars and other equipment, but if this equipment is tampered with, switched off or damaged or electrical power is lost to it, then, indeed, that tracking will fail. so you know, its difficult to come up with something that is fail-proof, that allows aircraft to be tracked. >> right. >> but let me put this to you. there is an elt, the electronic locator transmitter, which sits in the roof of th...

Plane glide into the indian ocean. it happened before. >> so far in this entire incident there is a whole lot thats not making sense. until we get to the bottom of what caused this airplane not on to go down fit went down, but also to veer off course and say good-bye in the middle of what apparently was a diversion of its course. before when find all that out this wont make sense. bill: what about the lithium batteries on board? >> there is a theory there were lithium batteries in the cargo hold...

Initially i thought somebody came into the cockpit because we heard it was an hour out before this happened. but if you look at the timing, it departed at midnight 41 and seven minutes after the hour, they had the last acars report. that acars report was sent with a position report. if the information is correct that that position was input in the computer that they stated was between the pilots, im assuming it was in the number three fms. that would have been a jump seater. the timing, there wo...

Officials of this information that they actually went to the uk security authorities to share this data, hopefully in the hopes of being disseminated more widely more quickly to try to move the process along. >> do you have any sense based on what you have learned or based on"getting radar hits of

Athens in 2005. pilots forget to turn a pressurization switch from manual to auto. at 34,000 feet all 121 on board passed out and froze in their seats. so far we know the malaysian flight was flying for at least seven hours based on pings or signals emitted from the plane. he believes whatever took out the planes transponder and communications systems, acars, was mechanical and could have also damaged the planes electronic nerve center which among other things monitors the cabins climate. >> tha...

Fuel. why on earth would they do that knowingly? what is the possible explanation for them being there other than the possibility that the crew was dead and the plane was on autopilot? >> steve, i could give you a hundred different reasons and make up what i think. i cant get into the pilots head. what i felt, just from, you know, the gathering of evidence, people that ive talked to, you know, if you have a rogue pilot, if you have somebody that is trying to make a statement, its obvious that th...

Pings and potential sighting in the worst possible ocean in the world. >> let me weigh you in. should we know more at this point? could we know more? >> i think we could. michael brought up a good point. with air france we were getting data that was being downloaded almost continuously. so even though we never got all of the flight and of course it crashed and took us two years to get the black boxes to fill in the rest of the storyline. we were able to at least examine that information that was...

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Number of waypoints just as a just in case, and that would explain why it is that they made those erratic movements. >> thats correct. they could have done that. or simply use a heading mode, which is the fastest and the simplest way to turn the aircraft from the navigation route that they -- the original route. were told to -- if we need to do that in a hurry, you basically just push one button, heading select, and turn to heading to whatever you want it to be. in this case, would have been hea...

When they saw the course had been changed. i assume the course is that dramatic left turn instead of just heading straight to beijing. >> they are probably waiting to hear from the pilots. if this turns out to be something like a fire in the center pedestal that knocked out the transponder and the acars, its going to knockout the other communications. they are located in the same area and getting back to what mary said, because we are not hearing chatter and claims of responsibility, people are ...