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Wanting to fly. heres where he puts them all the time, these are kites with im not using anymore, but they are very useful for the wind surface. this is all the wind surf gear. >> to manipulate the fake wings, the team creates fake mechanics using a nintendo wii controller and a smartphone. >> you would think the mechanics are reacting off of yarnos arms. its all animation. >> the team tries out the wings. >> now we are ready to go to our first test flight. >> we thought it would be very strange...

And its such an emotional cross that he bears that no one really sees but me. and he would have given anything to have gone with all of them rather than sitting here today and doing this. >> the faa has admitted it violated its own policy by having only one controller in that tower at bluegrass airport. a second controller should have been in the tower handling planes on radar while the other worked with planes on the runway. >> everybody was really very focused on the tower and the fact that th...

Transponder goes silent. >> when you turn that off, its like lights are out. so theres no more voice communication. >> and no signal to air traffic control with the planes location, speed and altitude. >> it could have been physically turned off. there could have been a circuit breaker pulled. or there could have been a catastrophic failure on the plane, which caused an electrical disruption. >> then the 777 makes an unexpected left turn, heading quest and way off course. >> what we see is a qui...

Automatic message sent from the aircrafts communication system. >> thats like a little text message thats just checking in. everything about that indicates a plane at cruise, everythings fine and 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 sector gets on a phone to the next sector and says hey, ive got malaysian airlines flight 370 coming your direc...

>> reporter: at 1:21 a.m., the planes transponder goes silent. >> when you turn that off, it is like lights are out. and so there is no more voice communication. >> reporter: and no signal to the air traffic control with the planes location, speed and altitude. >> it could have been physically turned off. it could have been a circuit breaker pulled or there could have been some catastrophic failure on the plane which caused an electrical disruption. >> reporter: and then the 777 makes an unexpec...

Five-hour transit and two or three loiter. this new area closer, giving the guys slightly longer on loiter time. but thats the first aspect. the second, wants to get out there, effect first of all the mission handed over to the tc or tactical controller down the back so the pilots will be responsible for the safety of the aircraft, and flying the aircraft at various altitudes and where it is pinned and asked to go, directed lithrough the controller, the person responsible for all of the radar te...

Warning, his clients say, went off or into standby mode. >> we have all kinds of anecdotal evidence from all over the world, and particularly in europe, of this kind of transponder unit simply failing without any indication whatsoever in the cockpit that it had failed. >> components do fail. it is not that it is necessarily turned to standby, its a failure. >> in brazil, one air traffic controller described by the judge as unqualified and incompetent, is acquitted. another controller is convicte...

>> new clues into the disappearance of flight 370. what is the final communication from the cockpit tell us? with me air traffic controller jason done away and boeing 777 training camp tan cross amers. all right thank you for being with us. i will start with you captain. there is widespread speculation regarding the seemingly calm broadcast. are those words unusual? >> not at all, judge. it is very normal when you are handed off to the next controller. i learned to say those words from the open ...

>> to think that you may not see your family or that theyre going to read about you and see about your death on tv and on the newspaper was -- it was a horrible thought. >> i wrote a note to my wife and figured, well, maybe theyll find the note. i said, "i love you. our time together has been golden, and, you know, im sorry im going to die. but i said nit a way that was nice. >> like most plane crashes, a series of events, not just one, led to the collision over brazil. two planes fly straight t...

Traffic controller querying the crew about altitude. within six minutes, the first officer reported at 3500 feet, then i also read that the malaysian controller may have been asking the pilot for his input on verifying his altitude. now, this is all before the sign-off, so you could take that information, speak to the controller in the malaysian controller, speak to the vietnam controller that he was supposed to be handing off to. did you see him on your screen? the malaysian controller, why was...