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Recorded are, all right, good night. as a pilot, does that sound odd or unusual? >> no, not at all. thats as per normal operations. nothing usual about that. both of these guys would have been in the cockpit at that time for sure. >> as far as the shutdown as you mentioned of the data reporting, right now it is inexplicable to a professional pilot. there are a number of different pieces of equipment that report. some of them are the radios. that would be the pilot. other pieces are mechanical, t...

Question. >> the data recording system shut down and 14 minutes later, the transponder shut down. your at that point. take us through. >> the transponder is right here. it looks pretty small. it is vitally important. it has a switch. it is right here. to turn it off, it is three clicks to the left. >> could you bump it accidentally? what would happen if it suddenly goes off? >> chaos on the ground. alarms would be going off left, right, and center on the grown. they would be asking us whats goin...