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When the journal broke the story that this plane was still in the air. were thankful that that was still going because that really is the evidence that it was still flying. >> well, what kind of date is 8:11. every hour or so i would think there would be data at 6:11, 7:11 and 5:11. handshake. plane is in the air or provide any sort of information? >> it says nothing but the plane is still in the air and that its flying and they are able to triangulate and get through analysis of the signal. but...

Information about a possible murder. >> im not trying to make excuses for the thais, but every time somebody comes up with nigh information, they say, why didnt you tell us that day one. >> you would think they would be more vocal. >> theyre searching for this airplane, wasting a lot of time. if they could confirm the left turn, they could save time. >> the nsa has certainly intercepted phone calls all over malaysia, on going. >> it goes back to how much you can trust not just the third-world ai...

Event of an emergency. we dont know what the reason was for this particular flight plan, whether to go back to kuala lumpur or take the airplane somewhere away from beijing. >> coming up. >> flight deck flight simulator in anaheim, this retired american captain helped recreate in a 737 what we know. someone turned off the transponder with the flip of a switch. >> you can see i can press the button, acars and that would bring it up. >> they switched off, then disabled the acars data system possib...

There is nothing really that has been eliminated. that second u-turn down towards the south indian ocean could well be somebody else aboard. 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, ...

For which we should hopefully with able to get empirical 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, i...

Minh city. they have not picked up wreckage as of the last time i checked. >> if it crashed into ho chi minh city we would have known about it. >> or anywhere on that island, that peninsula. >> take us through what exactly is happening now, we understand that we were just reporting that an electronic signal was picked up. what does that mean and how likely is it that they will find some sort of intact wreck contact? when does that signal pick up? when it crashes? or on descent, how does it happe...

Mh-370 took off at 12:41 a.m. local time. at 1:07 a.m., the aircraft communications addressing and reporting system, or acars, which send maintenance information to the ground, sent its last transmission. it was, apparently, disabled sometime within the next half hour after that transmission. a maneuver that may have required someone to climb through a trap door right by the planes left hand front exit in full view of the cabin crew to switch the circuit breakers. at 1:19 a.m., the plane signed ...

Directed off of course. >> if youre an air traffic controller and your plane makes a turn like that, are you going to tell me the air traffic controller is not being proactive and saying where the heck are you going? 12 minutes later they say all right, good night. he makes the turn, then says all right, good night. the other side of the dialogue, the guy with the microphone says where the heck are you going? >> that information would have been, according to our experts, transmitted to the acars...

An alternate flight plan in the event of an emergency. we dont know what the reason was for this particular flight plan, whether to go back to kuala lumpur or take the airplane somewhere away from beijing. >> coming up. >> flight deck flight simulator in anaheim, this retired american captain helped recreate in a 737 what we know. someone turned off the transponder with the flip of a switch. >> you can see i can press the button, acars and that would bring it up. >> they switched off, then disab...

For which we should hopefully with able to get empirical 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, i...