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System, same acars, but this is a different backup unit, is to go in through this, what do i call this mitchell again? >> control display unit. >> control display unit. i hit this and you can see acars comes up. i punch this and i can get into the system this way. theres one here, one here, one here. thats three. with this theres four systems that are all part of acars. so four backups, if you will. i can get into the menu and begin to shut things off. think of like your iphone where you turn of...

>> control display unit. >> control display unit. i hit this and you can see acars comes up. i punch this and i can get into the system this way. theres one here, one here, one here. thats three. with this theres four systems that are all part of acars. so four backups, if you will. i can get into the menu and begin to shut things off. think of like your iphone where you turn off the wi-fi and maybe turn off the bluetooth, eventually maybe turn off the cellular. but that phone is still communica...

I can get into the menu and begin to shut things off. think of like your iphone where you turn off the wi-fi and maybe turn off the bluetooth, eventually maybe turn off the cellular. but that phone is still communicating even with that shutdown with the main telephone system. i can degrade the system. i cant shut it down. to do that, ive got to go somewhere into the electronics bay. ive got to be more of an electrical engineer. lastly, the transponder. weve heard a lot about that. this i can tur...

All, of anyone trying to make any cell phone calls or send any texts or make transmissions at all from the airliner. the question is why not? is it simply the plane was too high? we also learned that other countries are planning for the possibility this plane landed somewhere and is being somehow being prepared to be used as a weapon. israeli air traffic control went on higher alert today as a precaution which redoubles the scrutiny on who took control of the airliner. was the crew up to no good...

And then plunged 20,000 feet and then climbed again. we learned today that in all those hours authorities say there is no evidence, none at all, of anyone trying to make any cell phone calls or send any texts or make transmissions at all from the airliner. the question is why not? is it simply the plane was too high? we also learned that other countries are planning for the possibility this plane landed somewhere and is being somehow being prepared to be used as a weapon. israeli air traffic con...

Theory. eventually you can come back to the same problem. if there had been a fire or if something had failed on the plane or anything like that, the acars would have noticed it and would have reported it. thats the problem with the mechanical theory. it would have had to have been instant. it would have had to have literally disabled -- a good question for the captain there, isnt that one of the issues, though, when we look at the mechanical problems that may have happened in the electronics ba...

Dramatic happened that it -- that it literally cut it off. but heres the problem with that theory. a i can advance any theory forward and backwards, but eventually you can come back to the same problem. if there had been a fire or if something had failed on the plane or anything like that, the acars would have noticed it and would have reported it. thats the problem with the mechanical theory. it would have had to have been instant. it would have had to have literally disabled -- a good question...

About that with you, could that have disrupted the entire system without sending a message back that there is trouble. >> there are several kind of failure scenarios that could do that. on this kind of plane, such a good plane. it tries to keep flying. it will shut down various things. there is a spooling effect. one thing shut down and another thing shut down. here, there are several catastrophic failure scenarios, a fire, a depression, a failure of electricity. that has lots of backups. there ...

Are to get into the electronics bay. so -- >> richard quest wants to jump in. hes finding what youre saying intriguing. >> quick question from quest. you cant disable it, but you can switch off the various vhf or s.a.t. com or data communication abilities, cant you, from one of the screens. >> lets talk to the expert, mitchell. you understand the question? >> yeah. so from what i understand -- youre asking if you can disable the vhf and hf communications? >> no, im asking by going -- my understa...

Have, you know -- learn some instruction and try to get some information based on that, looking for people, any names matching up on that air flight? recall 9/11 those that hijacked did go to a flight school in florida and that helped investigators kind of connect the dots. do you see that applying to this case? >> i do, but i also think they ought to look within malaysia airlines too. and by the way, on the flight simulator, the other thing you might be looking for is this captain had to have h...