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>> richard, let me ask you just to explain. you said that theres much better acars in this case as opposed to flight 370. what exactly do you mean by that? >> the aircraft advisory and reporting system. this is the computer. this is the way in which -- think of it as bluetooth. you know, the plane is constantly discoverable. the plane is constantly sending out information to the ground. and this aircraft -- remember, with mh-370 the acars were disabled, or switched off, or something happened to ...

Captain, 6,100 hours. can you put that in some kind of context in terms of the range of flying hours of pilots for this airline? >> that would be rarely standard for the low cost airicarriers ie region. generally youd have a guy in the pilot seat with 6,000 to 8,000 hours in his 30s to 40s. in the seat beside him in the co-pilot seat you could have somebody with 500 hours up to 2,000 hours. if anything from what i have seen, they both should have been pretty two experienced crew members sitting ...

Made some recommendations, but nothings been passed nothings been implemented. and this is another wakeup call when you have an aircraft flying transoceanic flights, how do you track them on a more continue stand baysisbasis. >> initially it seems that weather was reported whether that truly was a factor were still waiting to see. the difference between mh 370 and this. >> mh 370, there were mysterious things that have happened the turning off of the acar system the turning off of the transrespo...

To keep in mind, richard talked about the air craft being equipped with acars better than 370 if i understood him right. the other thing that the air bus 320 has, this is the same plane that he put down in the hudson. one of the unique features of this air craft is that it has whats called a ditching switch which means all the openings underneath the air craft fuselage can be electronically closed so its a more water tight air craft. if you do have to do a ditching. im not saying that this air c...

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Handshakes. you then see in this when it loses its acars, its communications ability using the data link. and then finally, you see these satellite handshakes, where the plane and the satellite are saying hello to each other and where they are recording both the time that takes and the frequency differential, the so-called doppler. now, satellite experts and engineers -- obviously, im not one of those -- they will be able to make sense of this. but what they wont be able to do is recreate inmars...

Because of the program that you and i and the panel have been doing for the last six, seven weeks. because unlike anywhere else in many ways we have really thrashed these issues out. so, when i sat down with the malaysian prime minister, im remembering what you and i have talked about so many times. i really needed to know when the transponder was switched off. when the acars stopped, been disabled, when the left turn happened, what did malaysias military see? >> now, the military radar, the rad...

Because unlike anywhere else in many ways we have really thrashed these issues out. so, when i sat down with the malaysian prime minister, im remembering what you and i have talked about so many times. i really needed to know when the transponder was switched off. when the acars stopped, been disabled, when the left turn happened, what did malaysias military see? >> now, the military radar, the radar has some capability. it tracked an aircraft which did a turn back. but they were not sure whethe...

That should have raised alarms and initiated emergency procedures that should have started something going long before aircraft would have been called to go and check the airplane out. >> walk me through that. >> do you remember the timeline? lets walk through that. 1:07, acars gives the last transmission. 1:19, theres that kuala lumpur looking forward to. and 1:21 is the last transmission from the transponder. the transponder is key in this. it was sidewalking the numbers 2157. that drops off t...