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Towers. it must have been flying well below altitude to connect with the tower. we know from a recent serve say, about 30% of people forget to turn their phones off when flying. if any passengers had their phones on, assuming they did and not in airplane mode that. >> too should have dinged that cell tower. of course, one of the biggest questions this all raises, was his phone on from the beginning of the flight or was it turned on before it hit that cell tower which is about half an hour after ...

Bureau. i know theres one onboard the ocean shield, for instance. so there are personnel out there with crash investigation experience. so hopefully we will know something to confirm yes or no later on today. >> have you heard anything, geoffrey, about the cell phone from the co-pilot that apparently was trying to make a connection with a cell tower in penang in malaysia after it made that turn after the transponder went dead? its raising all sorts of suspicions. what, if anything, have you hear...

Handshake between the copilots cell phone and a cell tower over penang. and the formal communication attributed to the captain means the copilots flying. so just lets extend it out over 30 minutes. >> what they had said, good night malaysia 370. they said that was the pilot. the analysis theyre saying is the pilot. youre saying because it was the pilot, the copilot was flying the plane, hence wouldnt have been on his phone. >> exactly. and the first thing they do, when they pull back from the ga...

Connectedconnecte with other towers. >> its odd it would have connected with one cell tower. you might have thought if the phone were on for a longer period of time, that multiple cell tower would have picked it up. so it certainly is a little suspicious in terms of the information at this point. >> reporter: the plane would likely have been lower than 10,000 feet for a phone to connect to a cell tower. suggesting the plane may have been flying at a lower altitude, at the time it passed over the...

Altitude for this connection to be made between a cell phone and a cell tower, not a full conversation itself, not a call made, but just a data connection, a handshake with the cell tower. weve also heard from the acting transport minister today, talk being what will happen when that black box is discovered and potentially recovered from flight 370. he said that part of it, part of the decision about its future will be done in consultation with the international civil aviation organization, but ...

With the phone, on sunday, malaysias transport minister did not deny the possibility. >> as far as i know, no, but like i said that would be in the realm of the police. and the international agencies and when the time comes, they will be revealed. but i do not want to speculate on that at the moment. >> reporter: when the plane first went missing, authorities said millions of cell phone records were searched, looking for evidence calls had been made from the plane but turned up nothing. still, i...

Altitude. that appears to be potentially the reason why the co-pilots cell phone was able to make a connection to the cell tower in penang, right on the coast there. we dont know at this time what the meaning of it is. was it trying to make a call? was it just sort of a handshake connection because the phone was on? phones typically will try to find the nearest cell tower to operate. but what it really shows is that the aircraft was potentially quite low crossing over the malaysian peninsula, fa...

The latest news we have is that theyve analyzed the data. we mentioned a short time ago. no objects of interest were found in that six hours worth of recordings in the submersible. >> yeah. all right. well now to a new twist in the investigation. a u.s. official tells cnn the co-pilots phone was turned on and made contact with a cell tower in malaysia about the time the plane disappeared. pamela brown has the details. >> reporter: sources tell cnn the first officers cell phone was on and searc...

Just taking this casually. so it sounds like at least one family member and probably others are still holding out that a miracle could happen. >> thank you. i want to check in with martin savage. right now hes in a 777 flight simulator. they are reporting that the co-pil co-pilots cell phone was on and made contact with a tower. that was during the time the plane disappeared from radar. what does this tell us, if anything? >> first of all, we have to determine which time it disappeared from rada...

Here. penang is on the west coast of malaysia, the malaysian peninsula. so, the aircraft we know makes that sharp left turn, comes back across the malaysian peninsula. penang is right on the coast there. so, what were being told is that the cell phone, the co-pilots cell phone reached out to the cell tower to try and make a connection. cell phones will try to, when they are on, try to connect to the nearest available cell tower. so, thats what appears to have happened. what does this mean? it po...