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Things, again, we are using information that were not sure is 100% valid. some information out there, for example, that mall veez: the plane, the last communication came just prior to it going west. the "new york times" reported that it was a computer command not a manual control. the transponder is turned off. the pilot has the ability to do that. that tells me somebody is in the cockpit. we know the last ping was about seven hours later. that tells me and the alternating altitudes tells me som...

Cockpit of the plane, military radar did detect the plane moving west far off its planned course. and now the authorities in malaysia say, and they say its also verified by the american faa and the ntsb, they say that even though the planes signaling systems were disabled, the plane was still communicating, just a ping with no identifying information. the plane was still in communication with a commercial satellite 7 1/2 hours after takeoff. the last pulse or ping was sent at 8:11 a.m. and, no, ...

Particularly this final ping at 8:00 in the morning, the seven hours of flight time after they last contact, it seems to me increasingly likely, latane, a huge amount of time that will pass, if it is recovered, if its actually in the engine, that theres going to be a huge amount of time that passes. and theres a lot of anxiety thats going to be produced in that interim, not just for obviously the people who are feeling this the most profoundly and deeply which is the families, but the entire com...

Just two minutes after that very standard conversation, at 1:21 a.m., someone in the cockpit turned off the transponders that send speed, location, altitude, and heading information. soon after that the plane turned around. at 2:15 a.m. the last radar contact in the strait of malacca headed north. over the next six hours the plane transmitted one ping an hour to an orbiting satellite until 8:11 a.m. when the last ping was received. that puts the plane somewhere along these two arcs as far north ...

The indian ocean, deep into the indian ocean. australia is handling that part of the search. this morning malaysian officials asked for some assistance in the deep waters there. >> on air and surface access, ive spoken to almost all leaders to request further support including access with deep ocean [inaudible] detection capability. >> remember, they are kind of racing against the clock here because theyre trying to find the black box, the cockpit voice recorder and cockpit dataç recorder. tho...

The black box that is so critical because it sends out a ping, a bit of a message, that only lasts 30 days. yes, they do have more time. now we can all understand when youre covering an area the size of the continental u.s., you need a lot of help and dont have a lot of time. >> i want to ask you what the mood is like in kuala lumpur. certainly the international spotlight is on malaysia and has not been flattering. what are people thinking about that in kuala lumpur? >> you get a little bit -- w...

Activate automatically once it hits the water. once the water is emerged over it. >> greta, if i may for a second. >> yeah. >> its not the elt that activated by the salt water it is the underwater acoustic beacon thats activated by the salt water. its been referred to as the pinger. it doesnt make a ping sound. its more of a ticking noise under water. >> but that doesnt go to the satellite. that doesnt -- thats a noise. it doesnt go to the satellite, right? >> nope. >> the elt goes to the satell...

Controversy whether or not it would send a signal. but hitting the water, that instant you hit the water thats like hitting cement. at least once it would send one ping to a satellite. am i right? do you agree with me jesse or not? >> i would think so. for sure if it was submerged in salt water it could go off. >> so thats different than the black box ping. this is is the elt. thats something separate, right? >> thats correct. >> all right. >> this el. >> it is transmit allege signal to a satell...

So we want to know what happened to this airplane, and im confident we will find it. even if its in the deepest ocean, we will find it eventually. >> but theres going to be a certain -- it seems to me increasingly likely given the data we have so far, particularly this final ping at 8:00 in the morning, the seven hours of flight time after they last contact, it seems to me increasingly likely, latane, a huge amount of time that will pass, if it is recovered, if its actually in the engine, that t...

United states, dont we have sophisticated outposts in the indian ocean that would pick up something that size? >> thats right, chris. in diego garcia, theres a number of assets the u.s. has. some of our closest allies like australia, they were all working it but this is a vast amount of sea space to cover to try and find it. and you have to do that basically from the water. air assets can support that effort, but mostly youve got to pick up the initial ping based on either something thats observ...