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Use an emergency frequency. talk to the airline. youll talk to the neighboring region doing all that in a matter of minutes, right? >> yeah. we wont wait for long. >> reporter: according to this report released by malaysian authorities, vietnamese authorities called kuala lumpur after 17 minutes. but it took hours of back and forth, before kuala lumpur launched a search for the plane. >> what we had here was something that was really off peoples radar screens, as far as the imagination. a little...

That if it stops, that doesnt -- it may have gotten lost or the sound may have been blocked. but that normally it would just ping and ping and ping and ping and not stop. >> that is correct. that particular ping that comes from an emergency locater, transmitter or black box is a continuous ping. and it doesnt stop. unless if you go far away from the source. and there are times that most of us, we always monitor the emergency frequency as we fly along over water, occasionally we do hear some ping...

Catastrophic failure on the plane which caused an electrical disruption. >> then the 777 makes an unexpected left turn heading west, way off course. >> what we see is a quick turn, almost 180 degree turn back towards land. >> according to a source close to the investigation, military radar then shows the plane dropping and flying as low as 12,000 feet. >> the controller at the other end is expecting a call from that aircraft. >> but the call never comes. >> there was repeated attempts to reach t...

Bigger or heavier because that means its going to cost you over the long run. so its actually not the ideal frequency for under water. heres a little piece of irony. the p-3s and p-8s that are searching for this particular aircraft are outfitted with black boxes that float. >> huh. >> why not? why not have a -- you can have a redundant set of devices that stay on the surface and then you can broadcast on an emergency frequency and you could find a site much easier than trying to, you know, get s...

Is expecting a call from that aircraft. >> but the call never comes. >> there was repeated attempts to reach the aircraft. not only on the 120.9 frequency which is the frequency they were assigned but also on an emergency frequency. >> there is no answer. >> theyre going through their checklist for a missing aircraft. an aircraft that has apparently fallen off the radar screens and is not communicating. you know, whats going on? >> at 2:40 a.m., a worried air traffic control tower alerts malaysi...

>> the control at the other end is expecting a call from that aircraft. >> but the call never comes. >> there was repeated attempts to reach the aircraft, not only on the 120.9 frequency, which is the frequency they were assigned, but also on an emergency frequency. >> there is no answer. >> theyre going through their checklist for a missing aircraft, an aircraft that has apparently fallen off the radar screens and is not communicating. you know, whats going on? >> at 2:40 a.m., a worried air tr...

>> there was repeated attempts to reach the aircraft. not only on the frequency they were assigned but also an emergency frequency. >> there is no answer. >> theyre going through their check lilist for a missing aircraft, an aircraft that has fallen off the radar screens and is not communicating. >> at 2:48 a.m., a worried air traffic control alerts malaysian airlines theyve lost contact with the plane. flight 370 has disappeared. by 6:30 a.m., the sun is rising over beijing. the same time fligh...

End is expecting a call from the aircraft. >> reporter: but the call never comes. >> there was repeated attempts to the reach the aircraft, and not only on the 120.9 frequency which is the frequency they were assigned, but also on an emergency frequency. >> reporter: there is no answer. >> they are going through the checklist for a missing aircraft, an aircraft that has apparently fallen off of the radar screen and is not commun communicating. what is going on? >> reporter: at 2:30 a.m. a worrie...

And when we need somebody who knows something about the business i go and find the guy who actually invented or designed that transponder and take him with me to court. so these folks in malaysia should have gone to the didnt have that going? >> that brings me to the issue a little later in the show. who is on first. who is doing what. what is the first thing they do in the event of loss of communication? >> like my friend in air traffic control says. we trying to back to the last frequency we w...

And when we need somebody who knows something about the business i go and find the guy who actually invented or designed that transponder and take him with me to court. so these folks in malaysia should have gone to the didnt have that going? >> that brings me to the issue a little later in the show. who is on first. who is doing what. what is the first thing they do in the event of loss of communication? >> like my friend in air traffic control says. we trying to back to the last frequency we w...