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Communications system was also cut. now, how hard would that have been to do this? >> well, theres two communications systems that are involved here. one is a transponder, and that feeds data down to civilian radar. it ceased to function. that may be because of a loss of electricity. the component itself may have failed or it may have been switched off. but of greater interest is a data system known as acars. and this links certain parameters for engine monitoring and other functions, but it was...

Know to expect the plane. but its not like theyve been watching the the whole way in vietnam. they are expecting to sign within the next couple of minutes and dont become concerned until i dont see that airplane anymore, it hasnt checked in with me. it was around that point the acars gets pulled and the transponder and turn. it sounds like something quite well planned out. the idea that someone walks in the cockpit and does all of this methodically takes a leap of imagination, which is why exper...

Communication, and you had the transponder stopping. and we all thought that clearly that must be the moment. but if we move to the next set of the time scale, youll see exactly. but instead what we now know is at 1:37, there should have been an acars. there should have been an acars. so you have a window, wolf, between 1:07 and 1:37. its a 30-minute window. and in that window, we know two things happened. we know the transponder stops, and we know all right, good night. but we could not know at...

Cockpit signed off with malaysian air control. so does that lend more credence to a potential mechanical failure as opposed to someone doing this deliberately? >> you know what, weve gone over that, the pilot here and i, and im not sure we have come to any strong conclusion as to whether this means that this was an accident or deliberate. if you have the shutdown over time, it certainly sounds deliberate. but the fact that the acars system would be first. why? >> you know, it doesnt lend any cre...

Communication systems had already within switched off. what does that indicate to you? if there had been something on board where this co-pilot knew of some type of problem on board, wouldnt this have been his opportunity to signal to the ground that there was a problem in the sky? >> absolutely. given the fact that he was the last one to make any kind of communication and according to information thats come out of malaysia as far as the sequencing of when the acars went down and the transponder...

Night. i have been wished mahappy birthday. he had codes he could utter. all right, good night, was not any kind of a code. it was just a pleasantry. >> here is the thing. he said that, all right, good night at 1:19 a.m. on saturday. 12 minutes before, one of the communications systems was shut off at 1:07 on saturday. this also happened as malaysia turned over control to vietnam in the skies, right? >> tell us what that might mean. >> it is very confusing. acars, the aircraft communicating and ...

>> all right. well, lets begin with the fact you would have been flying about 45 minutes, were talking about the malaysian airline 370, about the time they begin to see some electronics being shut down. the acars system you mentioned. this is a communication system between the airplane and the ground, it can work in a number of ways. lets bring up the text so i can show you here this is what the screen looks like. would allow the pilot to send a text message, but at the same time, the airplane i...

Parts to that system. and they can be separated,iteslated. if the acars transmission system is separate, which is called the s.a.t. com and also used as vhf. what were talking about here are the pings or last transmission attempting to connect rather than the acars system. the s.a.t. com is the communication mechanism to the satellite. but the acars data is stored on the acars system and transmitted through the s.a.t. com so its possible there is a separate way to turn off the acars without disa...

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They had the most knowledge and experience and could do something as sophisticated at this, but clearly it was deliberate, wasnt a mechanical failure because apparently theres so much redundancy in the systems if something goes wrong, theres too many ways for it to be discovered. the fact that the acars or whatever the system was shut down so efficiently at a certain point, obviously, makes it clear that that was -- i dont know if it was they had been taken hostage by hijackers or done it themse...