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Radar screen this transponder were flight 370 and at this altitude. can you turn it off? >> yes, you can. heres how you do it. just three clicks to the left and its off. but you would never do that, mitchell. >> we would never do that. never in flight. >> it would be like driving the wrong way down a highway and thats how a no go this sort of maneuver is, but it can be turned off. let me show you something else this transponder can do. put it back in the normal position. if i was hijacked, a way...

Have a sick passenger. specially useful when we are out of the hf range. >> you also mentioned the engines transmitted data independent of what the pilot is doing. >> just to say what their p parameters are at the time. >> the important thing to remember, shutting those systems off, the radio and the acard system off, that is not easily done, it is not an on/off system. >> if you are going to shut down, we call this box, the fmc, you have to have an intimate knowledge of the architecture of this...

Understandable. hopefully well do it again at 10:00 a.m. eastern time. i hope so. the mystery deepens into what happened to malaysian flight 370. data reporting system and transponder were turned off separately and reuters citing unnamed sources and military radar new evidence that someone deliberately and secretly rerouted that plane towards the indian ocean and flew for hours after the last contact. so, who was that someone? was it the pilot, co-pilot or someone else? pamela brown is investi...

Minutes agro from kuala lumpur. of course its a simulation. this was the point of last communication with the aircraft. in other words were just a few miles away from that particular point in the flight. we are on automatic pilot. thats why were not touching anything here. were at 287 knots and 35,000 feet. again, exactly how everything was that night. and as you see, it is night. the night sky as we fly other the south china sea. lets point out the transponder. thats down here. it looked rather...

We are now on our way to beijing, as was the original flight plan. so, everything is set up in that particular way. one of the things we should talk about, carol, is the redundancy factor something the pilot here had mentioned. this aircraft, the 777 200 designed to go long distances and be out in the middle of no where. multiple backup systems and some suggested maybe they lost power and electricity to all of this. there are backups to that, right? >> there are a lot of backups. the electrical ...

At 2:40, the plane lost contact with air traffic control. thats about all we know. so, you are on board this sim mu lay tore and you have taken off from kuala lumpur. where are you now? >> we just reached a cruising altitude of 35,000 feet. while you were in commercial break would have been the time i would have gotten on the address system and told everybody, hey, you can, if you want, unfasten your seat belts, get up and walk around the cabin. that would have been announced. the plane is basic...

You dont have to delete all the radio signals and radio stations. >> what we are saying is that if those systems were shout shut down as has been reported, it means the pilot or co-pilot was intentionally doing it or somebody that knew their way around a 777, 200 flight deck. >> how far into the flight are you now? >> well, we have just taken off. so, mitchell, where are we? >> were passing 18,000 feet. so this is the point where we would transition to what we call high-level air space. it is ju...

Game was cool. >> i got to go back on and do it again. >> how did it feel? >> it was fun. i dont get to do it that often but when i do i go back into automatic pilot or something. >> i have to say as great of a host as you are, it was pretty impressive. >> do you miss hosting game shows? >> oh, absolutely. >> wauld you want to -- >> i would do one in a nanosecond. >> would you have me on it? >> very dramatic. >> it would be fun, but, you know, now you have to be famous to even get a television s...

Given a blood transfusion in an effort to save his life after he and governor connally were shot in an assassination attempt. a priest was ordered and supplies rushed through the hospital. >> the presidents car sped to the hospital where doctors raced to trama room one. dr. jones was the first to see him and john connally was riding in the motorcade. you were in the white house bus behind the limousine itself. i suppose the question for both of you off the top, how does it feel to have been invo...

I think those of us who were involved in it, i think you went on automatic pilot, you know, to do what you instinctually know to do. >> dr. jones, you were 31 years old. you had been operating that day. part of a surgical team, they run in and how does it happen? they say the president has been shot. >> the operator paged overhead. we didnt have beepers then. there was a loud speaker, and she began to page people stat, respond immediately and i went to the phone and said why are you paging every...