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Announcement. i dont know. >> im not sure what im disagreeing with. im merely saying with dont add one and one together and come up with three. >> im going to add one more fact to this. >> oh, do you have to? >> the final communication, good night malaysian 370 without the frequency to the vietnamese controller, which was different from the custom and practice of what had preceded it, looking at it in the context of the accident sequence, a simple explanation why he didnt repeat back that freque...

777 in the u.s. that would be unheard of. this guy was doing well. >> doing so well that fari fariq hamid had just finished training and it was his first time without a check co-pilot. nearly 30 minutes off the takeoff, all seems well from a message sent with the communication system. >> thats kind of a little check message, just checking in. everything about that indicates a plane at cruise, everything is fine, everything is normal. >> 12 minutes later, at 1:19 a.m., a handoff with air traffic ...

Catastrophic failure on the plane which caused an electrical disruption. >> then the 777 makes an unexpected left turn heading west, way off course. >> what we see is a quick turn, almost 180 degree turn back towards land. >> according to a source close to the investigation, military radar then shows the plane dropping and flying as low as 12,000 feet. >> the controller at the other end is expecting a call from that aircraft. >> but the call never comes. >> there was repeated attempts to reach t...

Both drivers had to pay out of their own pocket to get their cars toe towed. stuffing cash into shopping bag. he had to give it back. the bank blames a code error. a tip to all those guys there is a camera right in your face. right, tucker? >> good point. >> thanks, clayton. the united states about to log off as controller as one of its greatest assets. something we developed, the internet. the obama administration is set to hand over the group that manages web site addresses to the rest of the ...

Is basic expertise at the core of it. i wonder if there is something on that recording which might be very key to the investigation. you know, a couple things that come to mind, if there is, for example, a voltage change on the aircraft, that can be detected in the radio transmission. that might be something that could be important. was there sort of an abrupt communication that ended? are there parts of the transcript that have been redacted? maybe they gave it out to try to satisfy the family ...

Like a laptop hard drive its going to have some problems when it hits the ground. these were used for a period of 10 or 12 years. after that they said weve got to have more parameters. much more parameters. now weve got like 92 i think, 94 parameters, including not just rudder position but how quickly the rudder moved. and is the controller for the rudder making the input and then is the rudder following that input. you can imagine the amount of data we can get. >> they can survive any kind of -...

Im going to hand you off. here is 120.9. tune to 120.9. the pilot does that. underneath that, whats happened is, this controller talks to the controller at ho chi minh and says there is an airplane coming into your air space. >> picks up the phone. land line call. >> or sometimes -- i dont know, im not familiar with theirs, but sometimes a text message or some kind of communication. either a landline call -- >> basically saying were handing a plane off to you. >> yeah, 370 is squawking, 2157, it...

Repeated back. >> is it supposed to be repeated? >> yeah. its required. its what they do. maybe theyre just casual. this isnt happen on the last transition. >> the last being its gone? >> yes. >> what does that mean? >> it means that he didnt respond back saying this is what im going my channel to, im going to now contact the next controller. is it a big thing? i dont know. maybe its just an oversight. seems like hes particular about what hes saying. may be that the other pilot took other comman...

Safety analyst, also a former faa inspector and we have mary, former director of the u.s. department of transportation. here are the two propositions. the first is the headliner. well start with the transcript that theyre not sure who said what, yet theyre still confident saying foul play is involved. is this a difference with a distinction? >> i think it is. every thats said here is repeated. clearly repeated. he repeats 157, gives the position, repeats it. >> repeating is what? good? >> hes te...

Without a check co-pilot. nearly 30 minutes after takeoff, all seems well according to an automatic message sent from the aircrafts communications system. >> thats kind of like a little text message that is just checking in. everything about that indicates a plane at cruise, everythings fine, everythings normal. >> 12 minutes later, at 1:19 a.m., a handoff with air traffic control. >> what happens during these handoffs is the controller in the station that is giving an airplane over to another s...