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You have to remember the communication satellite it was some amazingly clever engineering which allowed them to even figure out roughly where this plane might be. its not very accurate. so the assumption that this 60,000-square-mile box is the place where the aircraft is is not a good one. its going to take some time. it took two years to find air france 447 and we had wreckage on the surface within five days. now, one of the things thats interesting is what if this aircraft what if there had be...

Of time that this happened we have back-up systems. we have ways -- if we have a fly-by-wire airplane -- and that doesnt mean fly by wi-fi -- we are able to totally disconnect that system and almost fly the airplane manually. were sending electronic signals to flight controls. but im very skeptical this guy was able to do it. you would have to have a separate piece of equipment that would go into our electronics bay inside the fuselage of the aircraft and be able to guide this airplane either fr...

An external source into our electronics bay of the airplane in other words the brains of the airplane. someone would have to have knowledge how to get in there and connect it appropriately and this has been done by boeing in the way they were attempting to make it a pilotless airplane. this is being thought out down the road. but this kind of stuff and system has to be set up prior to it. i dont see that this man tweeted the fact that he took control of the aircraft -- i very, very much doubt th...

If im wrong -- thats about a 2,500 feet a minute rate of descent, which isnt a terribly a lot. we start to do that if we have a crossing restriction out of cruising altitude. so sounds like thats a controlled descent situation. but it was definitely an expedited situation that they realized they had a problem, mechanical problem, something that consumed them enough that they were taken away from the aspect of communication. why that happened, i dont know. that is a little disturbing to me from t...

Couldnt have gone south? is that data compatible in any way with it going north? the 777 has a hatch thats unlocked and accessible from the passenger cabin that leads to whats called an electronics bay where basically the electronic brains of the computer are located. it controls the entire plane and, indeed connects with the satellite data unit responsible for the signals that were used to determine it went south. conceivably, those signaled were spoofed, were tampered with. a report just issue...

Airlines keeps its circuit breakers underneath the floor in an electronics bay for those particular systems. i said earlier that the access for those systems on air draft like the airbus a-320 and the 737 are actually directly in the cockpit. >> big question and big costs. somebody has to pay for them. jon, thanks so much for all your research. time to check in with the fox news desk. >> more on those signals in fact that are consistent with the signature of the jets black boxes. ill show you ...

Er. >> reporter: investigators have not revealed just how fast the plane was flying b you they say another indicator, the planes altitude supports their theory that the aircraft was burning lots of fuel early on. they estimate the aircraft dipped as low as 12,500 feet. >> the airplane was not cruising at high altitude as it may have been assumed previously, but it was cruising at a much lower altitude and burning a lot more fuel. >> reporter: what does this tell us about what happened on board? ...

It merely changes the area where the aircraft ended. >> you said it still makes you believe there was something mechanical. explain that. i believe that one possible scenario that makes sense for all the day that that we have found would be a fire in the electronics bay that would have caused the failure of the equipment. it would start with the failures of the acars and transponder. possibly vhf radios that would have precluded the pilots from communicating that would have caused smoke in the c...

Inside to please be transparent. he says he believes its gotten better. but thats whats driving all of this. if you look at the local papers, all the false leads, all the reports, under all of this is this sense, a deep distrust of what the government is doing because of how the investigation was handled in the early days, that lack of transparency, aern anderson. >> throughout the hour well be putting some of the best minds in the business to work on this new information we have. now were going...

Replica of the 777s electronics bay. first tonight michael schmidt of the "new york times," also former u.s. department of transportation inspector general mary schiavo who represents accident victims and their families and cnn aviation analyst. les abend. this information that nbc news has broken tonight that the change in direction was programmed into the computer at least 12 minutes before that final communication. how do you interpret it? again as in everything, there are multiple interpreta...