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Somewhere, it just seems at this point a little hard to believe that it somehow slipped into one of those countries without being noticed. >> kerry, officials are describing this as a criminal investigation. what do you think triggered that change? >> a lot has to do with the communication systems on the airplane. okay, im going to take you through this. there are two communication systems, one is a little button that puts out whats called a transponder and it flashes that. when you see pictures...

More than two dozen nations are now involved, ships, planes, and the focus of attention, wolf, firstly appear over these countries. but deep, deep, deep into the south indian ocean, where australia, it was announced today, australia is now taking the privacy. >> australians have good technological capabilities over there. stand by, richard, were going to get back to you. the little data that is available on flight 370 is being fed into the boeing 777 simulators to see what can be learned about t...

Cockpit and now they say there is doubt about that. you have investigators extending it to the search area. and the investigation is at a stalemate. 11 days after flight 370 vanished, the confusing and sometimes conflicting information from malaysian authorities continues. this weekend, investigators said the jets data streaming system or acars was switched off before the last communication from pilots. now they say they are not so sure. >> the last acars transmission was 1:07. >> authorities ga...

Communication devices of this pilot, his e-mails, his phone calls from his cell phone or land line. to see who he was in contact with leading up to the mystery of where this aircraft is. >> i asked the question, richard quest, because yesterday the malaysian authorities gave us one line when that so-called acars system stopped working and today they revised it, a significant revision. and the credibility is beginning to be questioned. >> well, what they did was, they clarified, wolf. because wha...

174.3. all right, good night. that last bit is a nice little courtesy. you dont get it in much aviation space where its very busy. ifprime minister said is that clearly, whatever was happening was happening at the time we had all right good night. >> mary, you are agreeing here. i hear you. >> i agree. i mean, it was -- apparently calm. and theyve analyzed it. and its his voice. its one of the pilots voices. you would know if your acars had malfunctioned and gone down. at that point -- if you ar...

Acars stops transmitting information about the planes operating condition. and that was before the last radio transmission, all right, good night, indicating everything was normal. 1:21 a.m., the transponder which identifies the aircraft on radar, stops transmitting. was someone trying to hide the plane? we also now know blips then seen on malaysian military radar were in fact flight 370 headed west and authorities say there is every indication someone was in control. >> until the point at which...

There was at least one missed hand shake when i went from the malaysian radar system to the next system. i wonder if i can ask you a question, a lot of view es are sending in tweets now. its jeff russell who asks, why should pilots have the ability to turn a planes communications off? why do commercial airlines need stealth in effect? why is that ability inside the cockpit of the plane, the acars system, the transponder. whats the safety reason or the operational reason for that? >> well, all ap...

We know that the two timelines suggest that whatever was happen pg, and we dont know what that is, but whatever was happening was happening when that pilot, or whoever, said, "all right. good night." >> and when you say acars, for those who are not familiar with the vernacular, the aircraft communication addressing reporting system. >> yes. >> this is uhs radio, high frequency radio, the backbone of most communications in the air waives every day. most pilots communicate via radios. so its only ...

Liberty mutual insurance. responsibility. whats your policy? welcome back. im jim sciutto in new york. malaysias prime minister says the plane was deliberately veered off course by someone on board. the last communication was "all right, good night." do those three words take on added significance given this new information? joining me now to sort this out is aviation attorney dan rose, also a former pilot and richard quest. lets talk about that, dan, because we havent had a chance to ask you ...

Information, detailed information, being disseminated from it? >> not much but the aircraft communication and reporting system is designed to provide that information. what were relying on now as i understand it is the satcom, the communication part, the antenna. its talking but it doesnt have any information going because the acar is not sharing that information. its not designed to give a lot of information just from a satellite look. so now if we had acars data, we dont know if we have or not...