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And others have reported, i think you really have to be cautionary about our ability to find any debris field, let alone the black boxes. but lets take it back for a minute. how can we be in this situation with modern cell phones and everything else? the malaysian airline decided not to buy the data package. we talked about acars. malaysia opportunities had an opportunity to buy a data backage which would have been $10 a flight, like a pandora upgrade. they chose not to do it because of cost and...

Manually in flight? and a retrofitting of planes so that they do have more modern technology? >> well, i think theres going to be discussion about it. but there are -- there are reasons to have the transponder be able to be switched off. and, remember, we dont know that that transponder was switched off. we know that it ceased to function. was that an interruption of electrical power? was it a failure of the transponder? or was it deliberately turned off? we do not know that. now, the acars is a...

Plane. the only thing he said that makes sense is perhaps one pilot locking the other out of the cockpit and then turning the plane around on some weird kind of suicide mission because nothing else seems to make sense. total electrical failure, you know, some kind of explosive decompression of plane, none of it fits all of the indications, all of the evidence here. >> well, were not going to get to the bottom of this until we find the black boxes, this we find this aircraft. now, that is a possi...

Well hope for the best. >> the ocean up to 12,000 feet deep in some areas. this new discovery could debunk what many have been focussing on for days, and that could be pilot sabotage. a boeing 777 instructor joined shepard smith a few moments ago, his theory, possibly a fire on board. >> caller: this also explains why there was no commune yags or the acars dropping off. when theres a fire, these components drop off by the protection circuiting and perhaps by pilotis turning them off, because whe...

Minutes 12 days tea go. 12:41 a.m. takes off from kuala lumpur headed for a 6-hour journey to beijing, china. acars reports in at 1:07 a.m. the plane veers to the west. 12 minutes later copilot, "all right, good night." 2:00 a.m. the transponder stops working. 12 minutes later at 1:37 the acars system does not work. at 2:15 is the last time on radar the malaysian military picked up that plane. at 8:11 a.m. the plane was last

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...

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...

Instruments didnt read the right way. >> all possible. >> and were 12 days into this investigation. >> here is why i suspect that may not have happened because it went so far off course. now, according to reports -- >> we dont know it went off course. >> we do know -- >> there was a way point that was put into the computer system. it was not put into the root, or we dont know it was put into the root. there were two separate things. >> all the evidence suggests it went way off course, that the t...

The debris field electronically -- they can send a robot down there and hopefully recover the black box. that might tell them something. in the case of twt, it told us nothing. all the normal activity stopped, boom, it was over with. then if youve got to recover the plane youre talking about a major, major, major operation. >> this is 100 times deeper than what you were talking about with yours. if it was as simple as some have suggested -- a fire which would have cut off the transponder and aca...

Be able to tell by the movement on the top of the water as to whether its one piece or many pieces strung together. >> and david gallo, on the air france investigation, from the time the debris was found five days after the crash to actually recovering the black boxes two years later, in 13,000 feet of water, david gallo, what was the next step? from finding that initial debris to the day, you know -- and how often were authorities out there on the water? >> well, it wasnt -- the debris was foun...