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Conducting this flight. >> greg, the point is that there is evidence that somebody in the crew is turning off its its the communications, turning off the radar and all of a sudden you see it re-emerge on a different flight path after a turn. that says to you somebody has made a deliberate decision to commandeer this aircraft and go in a different direction? >> absolutely. there would never be a reason for a pilot to turn off the transponders. that is the key for air traffic controllers to be abl...

Conducting this flight. >> greg, the point is that there is evidence that somebody in the crew is turning off its its the communications, turning off the radar and all of a sudden you see it re-emerge on a different flight path after a turn. that says to you somebody has made a deliberate decision to commandeer this aircraft and go in a different direction? >> absolutely. there would never be a reason for a pilot to turn off the transponders. that is the key for air traffic controllers to be abl...

Than normal duties and actions. they are going to look for those characteristics that might shed light on why someone could do this, take over the aircraft and do something to kill not only himself, but those folks on board. >> greg, these communication systems, specifically the transponder and data flow systems, how complicated is it to turn them off? >> its very easy to turn them off. you never have to leave the seat in the cockpit. a lot of people have made a big deal about the acar system. y...

Evidence, that this was some sort of intentional act by the pilot, pilots or possibly someone else. >> yeah, because i guess thats the question. how -- to pull off a maneuver like this. how specialized is the training need to be? is this something that plausibly, you know, a passenger could have learned on his or her own and gotten control of the cockpit or would it realistically have to have been the pilots? >> based on all of the things that transpired, the shutting down of the transponders, t...

Boxes as deep as 16,000 feet below the surface and gotten back good data. so -- but this was an extraordinary search, and it was a very fortuitous find of these two black boxes. jon: but it does suggest that there was a violent, violent collision. i mean, to strip the black boxes free of the structure of the airplane. >> absolutely. and another thing is that the data portion, the round football-like structure, that was separated from the black box itself. so there was really tremendous force whe...

Systems, specifically the transponder of data flow systems, how complicated is it to turn them off? >> its very easy to turn them off. you never have to leave the seat in the cockpit. a lot of people have made a big deal about the acars system. you can turn the data portion of the acar system off from the cockpit. you dont have to leave the cockpit. dwroint have to flip circuit breakers. it is evident the data portion of the acars was off yet the satellite was still trying to ping the box, the b...

The box then communicates to a ground station via a satellite and says, ive got some information for you, are you ready to receive it on the ground? the ground then communicates back to the airplane saying, yes, so they handshake and then once that handshake is made, then theres a burst of data. its all of the data that was in the repository about the health of the airplane. what has happened is the flight crew has actually turned off the data portion. so even though the information was collecte...

Indonesians, that led me to believe there was something else going on that was not intended as far as conducting this flight. >> greg, the point is that there is evidence that somebody in the crew is turning off its communications, turning off the radar, and all of a sudden you see it re-emerge on a different flight path after a turn. that says to you somebody has made a deliberate decision to commandeer this aircraft and go in a different direction? >> absolutely. there would never be a reason ...