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Nig night. what explains that? >> probably malice by the pilot. we have seen them snap before. i think that is more likely than not. there is theory that everybody became incapacitated or they had a fire. but there is a lot of point which the pilots could have made contact with air traffic control. and the time was in between switching air zones and controllers. so the controller letting the plane go is say he is turning left maybe the next controller told him to turn left and the next controlle...

Technical information they tried to connect with a satellite. that is what the pings are all about. is it possible boeing or anyone else might have information that could be relevant here? that they may have acquired through this process? >> yes. boeing is being so tight-lipped about this. theyre part of the investigation so theyre being guarded with whatever technology they have. but again this, what we showed in this report is that technology is out there. its in satellite covering the globe. ...

The next controller might say for whatever reason he is going west. someone knew what they were doing and the timing is pucu od. >> we could be of great value of this and we will see when the sun comes up tomorrow. 12 hours ahead in australia. we will have more on the mystery of flight mh370 but first morn the crisis in ukraine and if the president should be doing more than picking basketball brackets. >> the way the president is handling this is so unserious on so many different levels.

Radar signal of the aircraft. it also transmits a unique code assigned by air traffic control that allows the controller to identify us on their scope, but it also transmits the altitude of the airplane to the controller. the altitude source comes from a different place in the airplane. >> okay. >> lastly, it also transmits signals to other aircraft in the area that allows us to essentially get a picture of where the other aircraft in the area are. >> not just a single purpose. in many ways, sco...

Through the volume of the imagery. china also helps satellite images before releasing them to the public. >> part of it is not telling the other guy what you got. the reason for that is theres some capabilities that a lot of countries want to keep hidden. one of those capabilities is how fast can you take a satellite image and actually analyze it and use it in an operational sense? many countries see that as a very closely guarded operational secret. >> the search from the air see equally compli...

>> there are 350 planes equipped with a system that would prevent them from disappearing. it is called auto mated flight information reporting system and it is made by a company in canada. it has the ability to send of the information recorded to the jets black box to a controller online. the airline would know the critical function and where the plane is even if the other communication systems are shutdown. >> it would have immediately recognized the aircraft was deviating from the plan and tha...

Airplane and i turn off the transponder, the controller is going to say immediately, weve mrau lost your transponder signal and were going to have a conversation about that. these situations are difficult to understand. the minister got help. he talked about family assistance. and also innocent until proven guilty. its all very scripted. >> u.s. officials telling cnn that they think its more likely that this plane will be found in the southern arc of the search area. there has been a really inte...

The controller is out, try aircraft to aircraft communications. they would try everything. >> so, in your mind, you drop the ball as far as what we know right now, air traffic would you say or -- >> i think clearly, you start with air traffic control. >> malaysian air traffic control. >> its their responsibility to track the aircraft and when it goes off the screen, its their responsibility to raise the alarm immediately. >> all right, guys, stand by. coming up, a one-hour special edition of "th...

Them to stay for 30 minutes, then theyre gone. and then he could run the pressurization controller back up to automatic, regain control and [ male announcer ] this is the age of knowing what youre made of. why let erectile dysfunction get in your way? talk to youroctor about viagra. ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take viagra if you take nitrates for chest pain. it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. side effects include headache, flushing, upset stomach, and abnormal...

Air traffic control recordings from takeoff to the point where they say good night. i would love to see that laid up against what radar data they have. and then we can start making maybe a little more reasonable decision about what might have happened here. now, and this whole idea that -- lets assume the turn happened and the controller was asleep. >> the first turn we are talking about you go that first turn, all of a sudden, it veers left. got t >> so that to me takes you down a road where a ...