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And for us, the most important thing to do is eradicate any logical explanations for anything that might have occurred. and there is always generally a logical explanation. we talk about the data being deleted off the simulator the guy had in his apartment. he may be using a home pc and maybe ran out of room on his hard drive. logical explanation. regarding the phone calls. were all guilty of texting out to the runway threshold. >> this is what i want to know. those doors are closed and im a pas...

Of catastrophic accident like your other panelist had mentioned. ifno one is reaching for cell phones. the other reason is technological. a the loft telecom experts i have spoken with said simply that above 3,000 feet. maybe 4,000 you are really not going to get any kind of signal. a cell phone works by pinging off a cell tower. cell towers are on the ground. cell towers are also essentially pointed down, covering ground so you are really not going to get anything above 3,000 feet. obviously tha...

Minute ago, its real important that we establish the timeline, the communications timeline versus the acars timeline, make sure they match up and make sure thats accurate information before we start to rule out certain possibilities. meanwhile, mr. beatty made a comment a minute ago that i almost had to jump in. the reason a cell phone doesnt work from an airplane isnt because its being jammed by a signal from a foreign country, its because youre not near a cell tower. a cell phone just wont wor...

The reason a cell phone doesnt work from an airplane isnt because its being jammed by a signal from a foreign country, its because youre not near a cell tower. a cell phone just wont work from an airplane above a certain altitude and youre far enough from land. its really that simple. certain airlines on their long-haul fleets have installed technology that does allow cell calling by collecting the signal and beaming it up via satellite and then back down to the ground or down to the ground thro...

Now, without data connection or connection to a cell tower your gps chip in your phone is not going to be as functional as it would be on the ground. >> okay. and the radar, the fact that radar is not as effective, i mean, its because if youre going to be out over a vast body of water, right, you need the towers on which to bounce off signals. right? >> thats right. you cant put a radar tower in the middle of the ocean which makes it really hard to pick up a plane when its flying both low or ove...

Everyday, a little bit more information, but no hard answers, we wanted the give you the opportunities to ask us question questions and perhaps questions that we have not answered in the broadcast and so i sent it out via jim sciutto, and is s-c-i-u te te o, and -- s-c-i-u-t-t-o. and so chad myers who knows the satellites so well, and one question that is so interesting to me, and the question is from lee jenna tyler, are they able to triangulate any cell phone from anybody on board? they are ta...

But even after acars is turned off, acars sends what are called handshake signals to satellites. and what authorities are saying is that some of these signals were detected by satellite, and from that weve been able to calculate the distance from the satellite that the plane may have been. and thats what led to that map that you were showing earlier. >> and share what you discovered about passenger cell phones. a lot of them are equipped with gps system. they have those chips. one would think th...

The signal is getting all the way to the target cell phone. so it could mean that just the circuit is engaging and theyre trying to find the cell phone. so i dont think that there is a lot going on there. and the fact that you know when youre out over the water youre not in range of any cell towers so you cant get cell coverage. >> if people were on board a jet that was hijacked taking out their cell phones trying to send texts or cell phones do you find it odd that not a single one got through ...

They think it was headed in the general direction of the indian ocean. one more thing. this is what they said happened. take off from kuala lumpur. right here is where they say they lost contact with the thing, that it stopped sending out the transponder. its there on the way to here that we learned in the last 30 minutes, it began to climb to 45,000 feet or so according to the "new york times." and then it went this way and descended irregulare to 25,000 feet. they have markers that indicate it...

The signal is getting all the way to the target cell phone. so it could mean that just the circuit is engaging and theyre trying to find the cell phone. so i dont think that there is a lot going on there. and the fact that you know when youre out over the water youre not in range of any cell towers so you cant get cell coverage. >> if people were on board a jet that was hijacked taking out their cell phones trying to send texts or cell phones do you find it odd that not a single one got through ...