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Asking why the transponders off, why we put that code in. theyre going to think it is a hijacking. >> we should point out, carol, allegedly, that has not happened. we have not had any reports that that emergency code was used. one last thing were on auto pilot. if i want today change course, as it suggested the plane did. if i did this, thats the alarm that tells me, the autopilot has been disengaged. i can turn it off and put us back on course. so, in other words, you can cant take this plane o...

Radar screen this transponder were flight 370 and at this altitude. can you turn it off? >> yes, you can. heres how you do it. just three clicks to the left and its off. but you would never do that, mitchell. >> we would never do that. never in flight. >> it would be like driving the wrong way down a highway and thats how a no go this sort of maneuver is, but it can be turned off. let me show you something else this transponder can do. put it back in the normal position. if i was hijacked, a way...

Locks automatically f what ive been reading. but there is a fail safe code to open the cock pit door if it is locked and the pilot knew what that code was f. what ive been reading, everybody is saying he surely knew what that code was. but then the copilot could hit a toggle switch to keep it locked notwithstanding the code but only lasting for five minutes. what to you make of all of that -- what do you make of all of that? >> you need to have that. suppose you have both pilots in the cockpit a...

Clarify. earlier we were hearing the plane may have transmitted a distress signal on a transponder code. were told definitively that did not happen, they detected no coded or squawked emergency code. in fact it now appears it was air traffic control in france that put out the first distress signal when they lost contact with this plane at 6800 feet and apparently as you can see the plane went into a mountain. so a lot of questions about whether the crew was incapacitated. if that happened what w...

Transponders were turned off and the airplane went dark. that suggests hijacking. >> that is a key point and we -- scott brenner, whos a former faa official, was at the faa on 9/11, is the one who broke that news here. and yet, others have questioned it. we questioned it that very night, mike, because, they were saying, look, the transponder was -- tracks the plane prior to that, and it doesnt match up. in other words, the ascertainable radar data doesnt support that assertion. so i think we hav...