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8:11 a.m. the day it disappeared nearly eight hours after take off and seven hours after air traffic control last site of the aircraft. still no answers where it was going on why. the search has expanded to a danting area including the northern and southern track in the indian ocean. sunday, march 16, authorities claim the communication system, known as acars was disabled before the pilots last words to air traffic control leading to questions about why the crew did not raise this issue. the tim...

Inflight and managed to land and that managed to check for corrosion for planes that fly oversea where the fuselage can, you know, develop these cracks so that has happened. so there could be a slowly evolving decompression. there could have been a small fire that knocked out the transponders, that knocked out the acars. one interesting point that is really handicapping this investigation unlike in air france is that malaysian air made a decision not to buy the app that came with the airplane. s...

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A.m. phone call when the co-pilot says all right, good night, and finishes his conversation with the air traffic controllers, everyone says its absolutely normal. everything is fine. nothing unusual in this transcript of the conversation. well, prior to that phone call, there is the shutting off of acars. so, if that was deliberate, there was something sort of weird going on in that cockpit in that period that apparently isnt picked up in this transcript. >> sure. aviation experts have said and ...

8:11 a.m. the day it disappeared nearly eight hours after take off and seven hours after air traffic control last site of the aircraft. still no answers where it was going on why. the search has expanded to a danting area including the northern and southern track in the indian ocean. sunday, march 16, authorities claim the communication system, known as acars was disabled before the pilots last words to air traffic control leading to questions about why the crew did not raise this issue. the tim...

Provides the classic aero satellite system. that is the interface between the jet and the acars. that provides position, altitude heading and speed. the acars was switched off. what we know about is these pings. yesterday were talking about these handshakes. they come in the form of a microwave. its all about doppler shift. >> explain this. >> what we can say is if the plane is moving away from the inmarsat satellite, you get this elongated wave. if its moving toward the satellite, you get this ...

A.m. phone call when the co-pilot says all right, good night, and finishes his conversation with the air traffic controllers, everyone says its absolutely normal. everything is fine. nothing unusual in this transcript of the conversation. well, prior to that phone call, there is the shutting off of acars. so, if that was deliberate, there was something sort of weird going on in that cockpit in that period that apparently isnt picked up in this transcript. >> sure. aviation experts have said and ...

Airplane is in that vicinity. until we actually get a vessel to pick up some of these debrises and have a look at what they really are, we wont know for certain. its beginning to look probable theyre looking in the right place. >> do you make anything of the enough partial ping that may have been received? i mean, does that meaningfully change this investigation one way or the other in your opinion? >> no, i really dont think it does. the inmarsat satellite communication is something that is bli...

That point at 1:19. 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 pl...

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 ...