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It even if we dont find the wreckage we at least have the information off the black box. it is technology that has been out there but not viable for commercial application. it takz maintenance and too much over sight and when does it eject who are ejects it how do we collect it how do we protect it. so theres a lot of questions but theres other technology out there that could use on board systems and the data recorder information and put it in data burst. you can get it every minute every 30 sec...

>> when this one came, not at the very hourly point, it came eight hours after the previous report. >> thats clearly why this jumps out of the data. >> what would that mean? why would a plane send that ping outside of reports? >> thats right where we are, the question of the day, is this when it hits the water? is this what causes some partial burst of information as the electron nicks in the aircraft are inundated with water? whatever information data burst is available, thats what they are loo...

And not the same fidelity as the images if the chinese and australians earlier in the week and something else came out today. we talked about the acars data. that is the data burst that comes from the plane. its transmitted every 30 minutes or something in it and really updates what is happening with the planes systems. the last acars ka da that burst we said before was a 1:07 a.m. malaysian authorities today came out and contradicted something. u.s. authorities said last week that the last acar...

Do a u turn. this information, we are told by our government sources, was transmitted via the system by a data burst of information that came down at 1:07 a.m. and then 12 minutes later we had the last radio call. as for the latest developments today off the coast of australia by about 1,500 miles its a three-hour flight. they have shrunk down the search zone to about 102,000 square miles, roughly the size of colorado. they are going over this in a methodical way with airplanes. doing a grid sea...

Positioning. nine minutes later, the radar loses the plane all together. heres whats new. i want to you follow me step by step. the acars system was programmed to transmit information in 30-minute intervals. the next scheduled data burst would be at 1:37. that didnt happen. they admit from 1:07 to 1:37, they have no idea when that acars equipment stopped working. it could have stopped at any point during that 30-minute block of time. thats a much different story than what we heard this weekend w...

Willingness or not. joining me now is tom costello who has been covering the investigation. aviation veteran and former pilot captain john cox with us from tampa. first to you, what is the latest? what do we know? >> the latest from the malaysians this morning, they now say they cannot be certain when exactly that auto mated data transmitting system was turned off. they know the last transmission was 1:07 a.m. it is not a continuous stream of information. what they are saying is theres supposed ...

Was ever on radar, the search zone is shifting now to the south. just 500 feet above the indian ocean a u.s. anti-submarine hunter today searching for any sign of flight 370. also today more contradictions from malaysian authorities. after first saying the planes last automated data, or acars transmission, was turned off before the last cockpit radio call, suggesting pilot involvement, today authorities backtracked. >> we dont know when the acars system was restored. all we know is the last tran...

Zone is shifting now to the south. just 500 feet above the indian ocean a u.s. anti-submarine hunter today searching for any sign of flight 370. also today more contradictions from malaysian authorities. after first saying the planes last automated data, or acars transmission, was turned off before the last cockpit radio call, suggesting pilot involvement, today authorities backtracked. >> we dont know when the acars system was restored. all we know is the last transmission and we did not receiv...