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The puzzle. hard to know what it means without more information. >> absolutely. pamela doing great reporting there. the big question is they tells us a little bit, and then it changes. or they tell you more. there is one thing we know. they know a lot more than this one little piece about this phone. richard quest and arthur rosenberg are with us. given that there is a lot we dont know and that is a small piece of this, this you say is not coincidence the copilots cell phone was on. >> right. to...

About. that one just doesnt have a whole lot of logic involved. >> this is a tweet from eric. he says if the pilot was able to disable acars, et cetera, how hard would it be to disable, disconnect black boxes? >> thats something we talked about actually a while ago. it seems they could have indeed turned off the black boxes. if indeed we find the flight data recorder, there might not be anything on them. >> mary schiavo, this is from david, and david says why dont pingers ping in unique code in ...

>> there are many backup systems and communication devices available to the crew. you have to remember, they had two -- at least two operating independent radio or voice communication. they had one operating for acars communication and the transponder for radar signal and communication. and for all of those things to be shut out, to stop working means either a massive electrical failure, which is highly unlikely with an aircraft with that many backup systems or something else that we cant even i...

Much and really wants to contribute. >> yeah, but where do we go from here? is there a lesson to be learned yet because we dont even know what caused it. i think the lesson is, though, in tracking an airplane and how not to lose an airplane. >> absolutely. that was the number one discussion that the air crash investigators conference. everyones conclusion was the constant downloading, the glass box as opposed to the black box theory or there are still some other possibilities out there, make eve...

Aircraft under what is a busy civilian passenger jetway. because, of course, at that time, there was no information being transmitted from the aircraft that would have been picked up by other aircraft to give it an indication, which, again, for investigators would tell them perhaps that whoever was piloting the aircraft would have been aware that that transponder had failed. to transmit that information, the acars information, so therefore, it had to fly under the path of these other jets, which...

Was nefarious or mechanical it happened as a result of that transponder and that acars getting shut off. >> what is clear now, the captain was the last person on the jet, not his co-pilot, to speak to air traffic controllers, telling them good night, malaysian flight 370. the sources say there was nothing unusual about his voice which portrayed no indication he was under stress and no third voice is heard. and just today, more than a month after the flight disappeared, were learning malaysian ai...

There. >> its irrelevant. >> would that change the likelihood of him being at the controls? >> no. because he was an experienced or a semi experienced. he had 2,000 odd hours on 737. >> are you surprised? >> you are going to be shocked, but i do not agree with you for the following reason. you have to look at the facts in the context of the accident sequence, which began at 1:0 when acars reported everything okay. 11919 was the last communication. two minutes later, the transponder is off. and n...

Because no longer do you have to search these large areas. you you can just search where you believe the forward drift of debris would have come from where the plane probably entered the water out. >> and youve got current, wind, a cyclone blow through. so thats why its a different plane. >> absolutely. >> well continue to watch. thats the thing that i think is fascinating, they have yet to find a debris field. this is opposite of the direction they normally go with these investigations. >> noth...

Airlines flight 370 sparking new calls to improve air security by making it impossible to shut off a jets key safety system. suggestions include better protection of the voice and data recorders, making it practically impossible for anyone to cut power to these devices in mid-air, and possible expansion of real-time satellite tracking of practically all airliners. john, great to see you. lets break it down with the four systems that you did in your article. these are the systems that could be ta...

And still no sign of this plane. its almost unfathomable to me, jeffrey thomas. >> look, indeed. and every almost of this, the transponder turning off, the acars. we had the guys with the passports. the false passports. weve had military radar tracking it. weve had more conspiracy theories than you can ever imagine. some of them are almost believable. this is just -- this rewrites the whole book on aviation disasters and theyll be talking about 370 for decades and decades to come as changing the...