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Help them hear those pings. and i think my understanding theres a request out for sonar assistance. but it may not have put into place yet. the one question i have and maybe john knows the answer whether the plane has the acar system in which case data could be downloaded from both the airline and airbus that might also provide information about what was happening. >> thats pose the question to john. do you know if the plane was equipped with that? >> i understand it it was equipped with acars a...

It could be injured pilots not knowing where they are right now. and, of course, it could be like what happened in 2005 when a flight attendant went to the cockpit. this was a low decompression in a 737. it was a male flight attendant. he put on the oxygen mask and tried to fly the airplane. he did until it ran out of gas. everything is still on the table, chris. >> back to you tom there is always the question was anybody piloting that plane for seven hours or was it on automatic? people are giv...

Americans and now to us. and its very hard to know whether the malaysians have a good handle whats going on. >> interesting because the plane was due to land at 7 a.m. but you would think that if at 1:07 was the last acars communication. they expected another one at 1:37. they didnt get it at 1:37. did they look at the plane or think about where is our between 1:37 and 6:30 plane landing at beijing or ignore it? >> thats the thing it doesnt look like the malaysian military did anything about it....

Answers. joining us to help try, greg feith. mr. feith, thank you for being here. >> thank you, rachel. >> im obviously a total layman when it comes to these matters. were all trying to understand these things. does it make sense to you that the last burst of data, at 1:07 a.m., that acars data from the plane, would have included this information about the planned route that the plane was programmed to turn? >> what we dont know, rachel, is the entire route that was planned in there. typically, ...

Communication whatsoever, how do you explain it? >> i think youve got to look first and see what evidence we have and what we dont have. if you look at the device that shows the airplane on radar known as a transponder, we know that after the signoff from the malaysian controllers and before they would have contacted the vietnamese controllers, this device stopped. we dont know if its electrical, we dont know if it was a component failure, we dont know if somebody switched it off. what we do kno...

Airspace which is odd. also, the acars victim and the route is turned around dramatically suggesting that the pilot intentionally did it for whatever reason or something was happening in the cockpit on the airplane with possibly some of the passengers. we cannot rule out the possibility of passengers, a terrorist link. the transponder turned off, acars, the routes dramatically changed. the cause? we dont know. it is either an accidental fire that may have caused that or a more deliberate and int...

Come back east and move in the other direction? that doesnt make any sense. its just more things in this story as we learn more if there are just more questions and it gets more frustrating. >> how do they know that it was entered into the computer? >> this information was sent down by the plane in those moments leading up to when they lost -- they basically were lost on civilian radar. >> so that would be -- would that be at the 107 acars communication or not? >> yes. from the acars situation i...

>> we get the very latest on the investigation including new details tonight on the crucial turn in the flight from nbcs tom costello in our d.c. newsroom. tom, good evening. >> hi, brian. we knew whoever made the u-turn in the plane did so with the help of the onboard computer. tonight weve learned when the turn was programmed in. at least 12 minutes before the co-pilot calmly said good night to air traffic controllers. that would further indicate the u-turn was planned and executed in the cock...

>> we get the very latest on the investigation including new details tonight on the crucial turn in the flight from nbcs tom costello in our d.c. newsroom. tom, good evening. >> hi, brian. we knew whoever made the u-turn in the plane did so with the help of the onboard computer. tonight weve learned when the turn was programmed in. at least 12 minutes before the co-pilot calmly said good night to air traffic controllers. that would further indicate the u-turn was planned and executed in the cock...