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"all right, good night." that was the last thing we heard from the plane. but they say they got the transcript of ten minutes of conversation before the plane took off and then 40 minutes in flight and then up to -- and it goes up to the very point where they say "all right, good night." and people whove looked at it say it shows nothing but normal activity. just routine transmissions. what that would tell you if its a real transcript is that nothing untoward came down in the cabin up to that po...

Batteries which happens all the time but they have to be packaged just right and there was an accident that killed two crew members when lithium batteries got -- >> i mean the passenger manifest. >> passenger manifest, youve got to go back and look at all those things again because as we fail to bring something really hard forward youve now got to go back and revisit things that were dismissed earlier. they said they looked at those people that got on with false passports and they cleared them m...

Italian police for a lock -- last passport. then its vatican use. >> now investigators are in malaysia trying to match up who used those passports with the closed circuit video of the airport and now nbc news confirms that the two tickets associated with the stolen passports would have taken them from amsterdam and then separate destinations from there. one senior law enforcement official says the tickets were purchased with cash. for more on, this i want to bring in captain john cox, former pil...

About staying focused on the data we and not the speculation beyond it. >> well, did you accept the verdict of the prime minister today based upon the british experts that the plane flew for all those hours from 1:00 to 8:00 roughly a.m. into the south indian ocean? >> this data, the fact that they had the air accident investigation branch of the uk recheck this analysis and concur with it before sending it to the malaysian government, this gives that data very high credibility. the aaib is one ...

Likely if it was a decompression or heavy smoke or something like that, which also suggests that mercifully the passengers might have been dead for that whole stretch out over the indian ocean as well. the final end there, you were asking about that, and we dont know this, but the way a plane typically comes down when it runs out of fuel, and that must be what happened here is eventually it ran out of fuel. if one engine goes first and then the other one, its apt to spiral down there. is a scena...

Immarsat and this is high quality. >> i have an admonition not to speculate, but were left with very little information, captain cox, and that is that the flight went on for seven hours. my question to you, could a automatic pilot procedure keep a plane flying on a straight line for seven hours without anybody alive on the plane? a zombie flight, if you will. could that happen? >> is it possible? absolutely, yes. no question. >> so there is no dead man switch like in railroads. if youre dead, th...

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