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Everythings pretty lax. this may have been the only airplane this controller was talking to. so saying good night to the controller, it doesnt mean much to me at least. >> i got to go but i have to ask you one last quick question in the piece you wrote. you dont think if the pilots were involved they could not have done it alone, just two of them or one of them. >> yeah, i dont believe this kind of planning was carried off with just these two pilots on random, last minute kind of effort. i belie...

Cockpit? you know a lot about signaling and correct standards used. apparently it was all right, good night. there have been some reports that would have been roger and out. >> if you listen to air traffic control radio, you fly from new york to chicago, youll be talking to new york controllers at some point theyll hand you off to cleveland center. the way it will go, the new york controller will say, malaysia 123 contact cleveland at 126.5 and usually something like good day or have a great day...

Im flying vfr. anybody who flies visual flight rules, if you want to use a transponder you squawk 1200. . a squawk code will be there. you will be told by the controller go to 0466. thats for radar identification and location. okay? who the plane is, where the plane is as far as altitude is concerned. above 18,000 feet -- and thats where this commercial flight was flying -- you have to have two of these. its regulation. youre going to tell me both of they will malfunctioned? both of them happene...

With passengers. they could have taken a cargo jet or something that was empty or just, you know, full of cargo going from one place to another. i mean, obviously were all just guessing here. every day there is a few more piece that is come together. this altitude shifting and also the fact that the pilots last comment, he said, good night to the controller, came after the transponder was turned off. what do you make of that, robert? >> well that is strange. there is no doubt about that. and tha...

I think that malaysian government is with if extre -- with the extremely sensitive to postulating it is a te errorist attack. >> yes. and we got this model from the conversation yesterday as we talked about the lithium batteries in the cargo hold, and also helps to power the plane. and so, takes through that and what are the possibilities of that, because they are dealing towards the pilots, but still, we dont know what happened. >> we know it was not a lithium ion battery fire, because it went ...

The problem is i have never seen them turn to aviation before. they are not very sophisticated. they would need to contact a group from malaysia. themselves alone, i doubt it. >> early on i was asking officials in washington whether they had these capabilities. arthur, before we finish just on this point of the handoff, when that plane gave that good night, a handshake, in effect, why didnt the vietnamese authorities alert someone when the plane didnt show up on their radar screens? >> standard ...

Warnings and anomalies in the airplane, pilots often return to their instinctual behavior. lets turn around and go back to where we came from. >> if so, how is it possible that no air traffic control tower asked them to identify themselves or if it landed somewhere. >> i cant speak to the issue of whether they asked the plane to identify themselves, but when you are talking about transponders and what they see on the ground, its a simple explanation of why the plane disappeared. when you squawk ...

Carol, many people are wondering why malaysian officials havent searched their homes like they say. back to you. >> that is curious and were going to talk about that in just a little bit. pamela brown, thank you so much. tom fuentes law enforcement analyst and bob. the last words heard from the cockpit was all right, good night. we dont know who said this. is there a way to determine who said it and is it important? >> i wouldnt consider that to be surprising. i mean, if youre going off as a pil...

Communication burned through the wires. >> its possible. my gut feeling and we are speculating -- >> i prefer scenarios. what could have happened. >> we know, the facts are voice communication stopped when the pilot essentially said good night to the controller. we know a short time after that the transponder signal was lot of. we know after that that the airplane with the primary paint turned around and started to head in a southwesterly direction. we know that the system at least pinged satell...

The flight deck and the crew being forced or did they have such a mechanical problem they had to concentrate on flying the airplane and who know what is that might have been. with multiple systems, its unusual to lose every ability to communicate. the last words heard from them. nice to talk to you. exactly. good night. we will talk to the next controller or catch you next time. have a good day. if you listen on the scanners around any united states airport, you will hear a lot of responses. tha...