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Night" is what he said, no sign of trouble. two minutes later, the location transponder goes down. at some point, another communication system stops working, too. and that hard bank to the left sends the jet back over malaysia, up the straits of malacca and apparently turning into the indian ocean. the shutdown of the systems, all those turns tell investigators someone was at the controls who wanted to disappear. but even that is not a complete timeline. an example a critical piece of informatio...

When the journal broke the story that this plane was still in the air. were thankful that that was still going because that really is the evidence that it was still flying. >> well, what kind of date is 8:11. every hour or so i would think there would be data at 6:11, 7:11 and 5:11. handshake. plane is in the air or provide any sort of information? >> it says nothing but the plane is still in the air and that its flying and they are able to triangulate and get through analysis of the signal. but...

>> i dont think it would have, richard. i think that unless you actually made the turn -- if you entered it, i dont think so. i think if you made the turn, obviously, then yes. >> so in that last communication, there was no turn had been made yet, correct? >> reporter: thats what the information were getting that yes, there had not been a turn as yet. a lot of this has to do with the acars and what information they got and how its being interpreted. but that seems to be the way its going now. >>...

The airplane for four years and now retired said hes never been down there. >> is that right? >> because theres no real need for us to be down there. theres one circumstance that i would go down there and thats simply after an incident theres a diagram on where to pull a particular circuit breaker like whats being pointed out here. >> if there was a fire on board or smoke, is that part of the procedure to turn circuit breakers off? turn off the in flight system, to turn off the acars? >> it woul...

That data? >> i think all of the data that is possible has been squeezed out. >> okay. >> because as soon as the acars were turned off, the data part. the box, itself, wasnt turned off. thats how we got the ping, six hours of pings. the electronic box was still active. it was just the data downburst. once we lost that, we lost the transponder. the airplane went out of radar coverage and we dont have eyes in sky, the satellite data to track this airplane. now its anyones guess and we will not get...

>> thats the crash i should say where they believe it was essentially pilot suicide. >> correct. >> yeah. >> we started faulki eed talkin people to get a character study. is this the way he normally handled himself in the cockpit? did he do these things? we found on the day that he did, he took this airplane down, he was out of character. he didnt do things that he had normally done. and i think that in the investigation of this event, they should be asking those questions. theyll be interviewin...

And if it is, do you know who the target of that terrorism is going to be? its going to be the united states of america. >> also its important to point out yesterday, because you talked to a general who talked about some type of pakinstani connection and this plane landing inside pakistan. we do understand that the president of malaysia called the president of pakistan yesterday. wait a second. were looking to the south and hes calling the president of pakistan to say, hey, did you see anything?...

>> reporter: thats what the information were getting that yes, there had not been a turn as yet. a lot of this has to do with the acars and what information they got and how its being interpreted. but that seems to be the way its going now. >> so -- because the last acars did not -- >> 1:07. last acars is at 1:07. the good night is at 1:19. im sort of hedging that if the nbc report is correct and that was a programmed change, how else is the ground going to know? how else would anybody know that...

Something intentional with the 737 in indonesia -- >> thats the crash i should say where they believe it was essentially pilot suicide. >> correct. >> yeah. >> we started talking to other people to get a character study. is this the way he normally handled himself in the cockpit? did he do these things? we found on the day that he did, he took this airplane down, he was out of character. he didnt do things that he had normally done. and i think that in the investigation of this event, they shoul...

Motivation, why would someone want to take over this aircraft, what might there intent be with it, i think thats noble, if you continue to investigate, look into backgrounds, find out where that aircraft was, look at the cargo hold, who tendered the cargo hold. >> the federal register that dawks about the possibility of a cyber hijack, that somebody from within the plan could have disabled the communications ability of that plane, including shutting off the transponder, apparently it was a known...