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Them to stay for 30 minutes, then theyre gone. and then he could run the pressurization controller back up to automatic, regain control and they got the aircraft back. >> we have to leave it there, well be back with our panel and ralph peters is here after this break. no two people have the same financial goals. pnc investments works with you to understand yours and helps plan for your retirement. talk to a pnc investments financial advisor today. ♪

You might be able to tell from the pilots voice inflections what was going on. it doesnt sound like the co-pilot, if thats who it was, was under any duress. >> right. >> this sounds like -- like a plan. the reason that i have a hard time with mechanical failure is that there are two guys flying the airplane. certainly one of them would have had an opportunity to turn and say to any controller that they are in contact with, weve got a problem, we are coming back toward -- toward malaysia. >> last...

It was developed in canada. 40 airlines or flight services bought it even though not required. it sends all the information recorded in the aircrafts black box to a controller on the ground. it allows the airline to know all the critical functions of the engines and exactly where the plane is even if there is a power failure or the planes other communications system is shut down. >> theres literally no further investment in infrastructure that would be required to do this. obviously more is bett...

Automatic oxygen system that is programmed along with the flight plan itself. this aircraft, if it went up to 43,000, the pressure altitude is 8,000 feet. if it went to 450, it would be 10,000 feet. but there are two buttons for the oxygen system. all the pilot or the co pilot would have to do is go to the manual mode on the oxygen system there. >> and they can override it. how much oxygen would the passengers have had in the oxygen masks? >> they would have had 22 minutes. all you have to do is...

Before the sign-off. so if thats the case, air traffic control would have no indication that he was going to turn. if he had actually turned, then the radar should have picked it up. but the controller would have seen that and would have questioned, what are you doing, because hes offcourse and would wonder if there was some sort of problem on board the aircraft. >> whats the other side of the dialogue? we know he said good night and good-bye. we dont know what they said to him prior to that. wh...

>> so the turn is made. so having said the turn is made, thats the report were getting, what would the tower say when they make a turn that has not been okd like that? >> any time someone deviating from their course, it wouldnt be the tower. it would be the radar controller would then question why you made the turn, because the controller is responsible for keeping that airplane away from other airplanes. >> why dont we get that? phil, why dont we get that? >> i have no idea. thats the $64,000 q...

The 777, the oxygen system is an automatic oxygen system that is programmed along with the flight plan itself. this aircraft, if it went up to 43,000, the pressure altitude is 8,000 feet. if it went to 450, it would be 10,000 feet. but there are two buttons for the oxygen system. all the pilot or the co pilot would have to do is go to the manual mode on the oxygen system there. >> and they can override it. how much oxygen would the passengers have had in the oxygen masks? >> they would have had ...

Conversation with that controller and you recognize one anothers voices. you might clip it. but that sounds to me like they gave him an additional instruction, for example. weve lost your transponder, squawk 5570 and ident, in order to establish that transponder again on their radar screen. that might elicit a response like all right, good night, and he would do that while he transtran transitioned over to the next air traffic control center. im not at all comfortable with this clipped exit with...

Flying in a busy corridor in the united states, youre reprogramming those things any time the controller, for whatever reason, has to change your route. so, its really very, very simple. and in fact, any pilot flying the airplane could do it easily. and even for aine trn intruder unauthorized person, it would not be difficult to learn how to do that. >> but if it did happen in this case, it would indicate that someone did, in fact, do it, someone did point this plane in a different direction. th...

Some ways of trying to do that. lets bring in rene marsh. >> we have our 777 here. jets like this, they are flying very long distances theyre passed from one air traffic control center to the next and sometimes it takes minutes before a plane makes radio contact with the next set of controllers. so could someone on board flight 370 have taken advantage of this gap in responsibility and disappear when no one was looking? 1:19 a.m. malaysian authorities say the co-pilot signs off with malaysian ai...