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Acars. it measures information about the pilots performance and sends information via satellite. its due to transmit again at 1:37 a.m. but never does. 1:19 a.m., someone inside the cockpit, believed to be the co-pilot, provides the last verbal communication with air traffic controllers. his last words "all right, good night." its a common good-bye to controllers after being handed off. at 12:1 a.m., the transponderer which identifies the plane to civilian radar goes off, critical information li...

>> passengers are now the focus of the missing malaysian airlines investigation. but without concrete evidence to prove they are wrong could the 239 people on board this flight still be alive. lets ask aviation attorney and pilot michael panzia. thank you for being with us. >> good evening. there is a question as to whether or not given the altitude changes of this airline, based on the information we have gotten from the malaysian government, is it possible for those passengers to still be aliv...

Mentioned, judge. i think it just adds to the mystery, really, in terms of why this happened. in term of altitude changes and actually the location in which the altitude changes occurred, as well. for me, it would make sense if there was a struggle in the cockpit and a pilot was replaced, someone who hijacked who had remedial training in it. they might be having issues in either flying it straight and level. theyre not well adversed in flying the 777. we know the aircraft changed 140 degrees ove...

I think it just adds to the mystery, really, in terms of why this happened. in term of altitude changes and actually the location in which the altitude changes occurred, as well. for me, it would make sense if there was a struggle in the cockpit and a pilot was replaced, someone who hijacked who had remedial training in it. they might be having issues in either flying it straight and level. theyre not well adversed in flying the 777. we know the aircraft changed 140 degrees over the south china ...

Mentioned, judge. i think it just adds to the mystery, really, in terms of why this happened. in term of altitude changes and actually the location in which the altitude changes occurred, as well. for me, it would make sense if there was a struggle in the cockpit and a pilot was replaced, someone who hijacked who had remedial training in it. they might be having issues in either flying it straight and level. theyre not well adversed in flying the 777. we know the aircraft changed 140 degrees ove...

Great to have both of you with us. theres so much here to talk about. but when we put this reporting together, john, we have a plane that turned off of its flight path, started to switch direction dramatically, switch altitude dramatically and seemed to level out heading out. and then made a choice, im going to go left or right. when you put all that together, lets faulk about motive. who would want to do this or could this have happened in any way, shape or form with everybody on the plane bein...

But what it does go to is as the u.s. intelligence community has looked at the technical data, theyve asked themselves the question, how could it be? how could these changes have happened? what are the reasonable ways these very significant changes in flight path, the erratic part of the flight path, the altitude changes, what can we explain away? what cant we explain aerodyna things happen? they look at it. and increasingly over the last many hours as they have looked at it, it is becoming hard...

>> i also want to bring in john hansman professor of aeronautics marry schiavo. professor hansman, all this new information, altitude changes, satellite pings, is there any chance in your mind what happened to the plane could still be mechanical? >> i think its less likely. but theres still a chance there may have been some sort of progressive failure that was making it difficult for the airplane to fly in the flight control system. but the fact that if its true that it took both -- i can unders...

Potential leak issue. what they would do is hold them aside because of everything that you could hold on to as a terrorist could prove to be a negotiating tool when it comes time to conducting an operation. whats odd though to us, i guess is, that there is no debris, have all of these ships out there looking. satellite imagery are and everything else. they is not found a floating seat cushion anywhere. and given the fact if it had plummeted the way altitude changes, plummeted in the ocean. it wo...

Airlines flight 370. malaysias prime minister is now saying this was no accident. calling did instead a deliberate act. he also says somebody purposefully disabled the planes communication systems. and that the boeing 777 continued flying for more than six hours. maybe eight hours. after losing contact with the ground now this means the investigation is expanding. with a massive search effort. now focusing on two possible flight paths. looking as far in and out north as the border of kazakhstan ...