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At this point in the investigation, there is no evidence one way or the other. >> but there would be piles of evidence if acars hadnt stopped transmitting. >> you would know the air-condition of the engines, the route it was taking, tatthe altitudes it was taking. we would know exactly the state of that aircraft. >> just the kind of information someone taking over a plane wouldnt want anyone to know. >> if you were doing something nefarious, then switching off acars would be a crucial part of ma...

Stowed away and once youre in here, its a pandoras box. these are the circuit breakers for the radios, over here, and theres also, interestingly, some -- there are some other devices and oxygen bottles in the bay, which also people have talked about. >> the acars disabled after the "good night" was given? >> before. well, we dont really know. at 1:07 is the last official acars transmission. the next one should have been about half an hour later. it never happened. so they believe somewhere after...

Well, according to an automatic message sent from the aircrafts communication system, called acars. richard quest is an aviation correspondent for cnn. >> think of acars as a giant smartphone, that will send out huge amounts of information via satellite or by radio transmission. >> then at 1:19 a.m., a standard handoff with air traffic control, as the plane leaves malaysian air space, and enters vietnamese air space. >> malaysian 370, contact hoe chi minute 120 decimal 9 good night. >> the contr...

370 vanishes into thin air. theres been silence from the cockpit and by 1:37 a.m., a second flight communication system, acars, isnt working either. >> acars was either switched off or it failed. we dont know which. because whatever did happen, this is the crucial moment. we pretty much know that all the comes are disabled, switched off, broken, blown up. >> as an investigator looking at this, what would the determination be, at least at this point as the to what is happening? >> at this point, ...

The news that evan perez is reporting this preliminary assessment by u.s. intelligence agencies produced in the aftermath of the mh-370 disaster suggesting -- remember, this is a u.s. intelligence assessment, that it was likely someone in the cockpit deliberately caused the aircrafts movements before the plane disappeared. richard, you studied this. youre writing a book on this story. what do you make of this u.s. intelligence analysis? >> im absolutely not surprised because in the cold light of...

A human being had to direct this plane. there were too many twists and turns to its flight path. >> basically, peter, youre saying it wasnt a mcal failure or anything like that? this was a deliberate act by someone or some people in that cockpit to take that plane down, whether it was pilot suicide, co-pilot suicide. somebody else wanted to take that plane down for whatever reason? >> i think thats the only conclusion you can come to at this point. theres a lot of discussion about a fire in the ...

Michael nutter. >> somewhere around after 9:00 p.m. this evening. that incident required a four-alarm response from the fire department. the fire department is in command in this scene. that resulted in 33 apparatus on the scene, 120 firefighters and other emergency management personnel responded. this went to a level three mass casualty incident because of the number of personnel. 243 individuals on this train, five of whom are amtrak employees. unfortunately, we can confirm at least five indiv...

>> if you were doing something nefarious and switching off acars would be a crucial part of making the plane go dark. >> 17 minutes after the plane went dark, 19 minutes after the last words from the cockpit, there was still no check-in with vietnam air traffic control. the call former chief pilot nik huslan has made thousands of times. >> you have to be like drunk for you to forget to check in after somebody tells you immediately to check in. every pilot would do that as soon as possible. anyth...

>> there was no particular challenge there for a seasoned captain and that first officer to handle that flight without any problem. >> and at 1:07 a.m., all seems well. according to an automatic message sent from the aircrafts communication system called acars. richard quest is an aviation correspondent for cnn. >> think of acars as a giant smartphone that will send out huge amounts of information via satellite or by radio transmission. >> then at 1:19 a.m., a standard handoff with air traffic c...

In the middle of the night on march 8th, at 1:21 a.m., malaysia airlines flight 370 vanishes into thin air. theres been silence from the cockpit, and by 1:37 a.m., a second flight communication system, acars, isnt working either. >> acars was either switched off or it failed. we dont know which because whatever did happen, this is the crucial moment. we pretty much know that all the comes are disabled, switched