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40 tweets per second if not more of people asking questions. questions like this, bill. this one is from amy. amy says, do the sightings of a low-flying jet on the maldives mesh with the timing and location of the last ping on acars? well answer that at the top of the hour. heres what alex is asking. rule of flying is to navigate, aviate, then communicate. perhaps fire came on quickly, pilot responds course changes and passes out. >> we have the best aviation experts in the united states and in ...

Sitting at the gate, and we dont know if they changed it at the gate or on the plane, but for two pilots to change that route, eric, at the gate would mean that the pilots had to be in on it. acars sends the pilots the route. they sit at the gate, they confirm it, its usually completely on point. for them to change it at the gate, they would have had to both be in on it. if they changed it in the sky, one pilot could have, you know, been pressed. >> gone to the mens room. >> gone to the mens roo...

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 defect within the boeing 777. possibility? >> im going to put that one at the bottom of my lis...

Necessarily between that and what happened. the more compelling clue to come out in the past couple of days is this 12-minute lag in the communications. the acars and the voice communication. its important to confirm that those timelines are accurate and they do lineup. even if so, however, its not necessarily a smoking gun. there still remains the possibility although it is admittedly a shrinking that they were dealing with some kind of on board emergency and we are making that turn or even pre...

With equipment down in the bay doesnt take a rocket science. this is a panoramic view of the planes nerve center has that hold the avionics, communication equipment and the acars system. jim sciutto is joining us along with ntsb and former aircraft mechanic john goleo. were know not showing our viewers any secret information. this is all information that somebody who is very interested in this can find out online and elsewhere. i just dont want to give people the idea were showing something we s...

Engines as happened with air france, there can be big bursts or packets of information coming out of the plane or the regular check-in with the satellites that were talking about that happened after acars was turned off, or at least mainly turned off. no matter how this information gets there, though, its then passed to the airline company because that airline company uses that on a normal basis to monitor things like whether or not an engine needs to be checked when it lands or a tire replaced ...

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 should be asking those questions. th...

Good night" to ground control. those were the last words spoken by anyone on board flight 370. 1:21 a.m., the planes transponders go dead. theres no indication anything is wrong with the plane before dropping off radar. the pilots were supposed to check in with vietnamese air control. they never did. the flight veered sharply to the left, the u-turn that now appears to be premeditated. turning off the transponder and acars system, easy, taking no more than 20 seconds. >> all have i to do is spin...

The magenta line instead of going straight toward cali all of a sudden made a u-turn and got into a very big discussion about whats it doing, why is it behind us? it should be ahead of us. because they had one identifier on their route wrong. >> this is not a subtle system that there could be an -- >> no, theyre going to see it, and with this left turn, it would be presented on their pfd. >> one last question for you, greg. that is, ive been -- ive tried to be very small "c" conservative in term...

Minutes, anderson. because deduct 12 minute s minu the last known all right good night and you get into roughly the time when the last acars message would have been sent. so a question for you, martin and mitchell in the flight simulator, if either by the heading knob or by the flight management system a route change was made, would that have been sent out on acars or would the ground have been informed? mitchell, what do you think? >> i dont think it would have, richard. i think that unless you...