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Be on the southern indian ocean and not so much the northern sector. >> roger, thiewnk. >> thank you. >> waters off the coast of australia are very turbulent. searchers battling mother nature as they the clock. rick reichmuth joins us. >> under the best of circumstances these waters are incredibly choppy and incredibly rough and the wind is always ongoing. but you take a look right there about 1700 miles from perth, australia, and right now that right there was a system that brought a lot of clo...

Systems, specifically the transponder of data flow systems, how complicated is it to turn them off? >> its very easy to turn them off. you never have to leave the seat in the cockpit. a lot of people have made a big deal about the acars system. you can turn the data portion of the acar system off from the cockpit. you dont have to leave the cockpit. dwroint have to flip circuit breakers. it is evident the data portion of the acars was off yet the satellite was still trying to ping the box, the b...

Electrical power. the one that is more telling is a communication system known as acars. for the acars system to be active and still interacting with the satellites but not broadcasting data, to do that requires special knowledge, specialized knowledge. so i think thats one of the first real telltales, one, the airplane did have electrical power on it or the acars system couldnt have been powered and secondarily, the power stream was switched off. so this had to have been done by someone with kn...

If you look at the fact that they didnt communicate on any of the radios, they may have failed or chosen to be unused. we dont know. the transponder ceased to function shortly after the last communication. it could have experienced an electrical problem. the component could have failed or it could have been switched off. we dont know. but what we do know is that the data link system known as acars was stopped from transmitting data, but the unit itself continued to talk to the satellites. that t...

The plane dropped off radar somewhere around 1:20 or so, nothing since then. the transponder stopped working, plane went off radar. this was originally a flight to beijing, it doesnt make it, the plane was last over the gulf of thailand. there are reports that are still trying to be confirmed that maybe the plane did a u-turn, maybe it was over the strait of malacca headed out over the indian ocean. thats not confirmed. the chinese satellite images which purported to show possible wreckage in th...

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...

At the time that they said good night as if nothing was wrong? is there any way that that programming into the flight management system could have been disguised from the pilots? is there anything they should have checked that they might not have noticed had they looked more closely? and number three, if we understand from that last burst of acars data that the plane was going to travel a new course, that it was going to bank hard to the west and hit a bunch of waypoints along the way that were ...

>> its hard to imagine why in the world -- its hard to come up with a scenario in your mind, for why someone would make this drastic turn and fly for hours on end. for instance, was even anyone alive on the jet as it was flying? from everything weve heard, its possible no one was. >> i think these are all perfectly reasonable questions and theyre just impossible to answer at the moment. >> you alluded to air france 447 earlier in the conversation. i think whats very different about air france 44...

Returned to the pilots homes in search for clus and removed a flight simulator from the captains residence. today authoritieses confirmed it was the copilot who issued the chilling final words, "all right, good night" to malaysian air traffic control at 1:19 a.m. as the 777 transitioned if from ma p litigation to vietnamese air space. two minutes later the tran responder was switched off. as for the second tracking system, acars, authorities now believe it stopped transmitting between 1:07 a.m. ...

Thats when they said good night. thats when they gave no indication they had anything planned other than a flight to beijing. we now know the plane at that point was already programmed to not go to beijing. again, this is new reporting tonight from nbc and as a layman to these matters just trying to stay up on what we know and not what we ought to speculate about, here are my questions. number one, is it empirically possible that the last burst of electronic data from that plane at 1:07, the aca...