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Most likely location of the plane. tom, what are you learning? >> in all these mysteries, this is the mistily weve been watching the most lately which is how theyve been trying to use satellites to figure out this has moved. these are the search areas. weve seen the flight path that weve talked about so many times. this is the initial search area, more of them. now its been moving steadily west. now we have these new search areas that the u.s. is focusing on up in the bay of bengal and down here...

>> the satellite receipt, after it lost contact with control center -- >> the satellite does not receive any distress signal from the aircraft, no. >> the ping? electronic pings. >> electronic -- >> pings. pings. >> pings. >> what the u.s. team are doing, they tried their best to get whatever sources from their satellite system to come up with a possibility, as i mentioned just now, possibility of where the aircraft should be. >> as i indicated yesterday, we are now sharing information we had no...

Up a vast new search area. were covering all the angles. correspondents and reporters and lets begin with richard quest and this new reuters report. tell us more, richard. >> well, what this report does is take the information that the aircraft or an aircraft was sending these ping messages. basically saying to the satellite, i am here. i am here, i am here. we know that they did this yesterday. the u.s. confirmed that they were looking at this and this was one of the reasons why resources and s...

Also, "the wall street journal" is now reporting that the plane, this is the new information, flew up to five hours, five hours after communications went dark. u.s. investigators are now reportedly looking into the possibly that it was diverted to a secret location. the possibly, i say, intended to use for some "other purpose." and there is more new reporting that well get to in a moment from the journal. there are also reports that this plane sent out pingings of data several hours after the la...

And what pilots do when they fly is they -- look at this. so you fly the way point. lets assume -- lets put out for the purposes of argument that this was an intended route, intended. the pilot would have filed a flight plan, an air traffic control, to go from malaysia to go to say, the andaman over here. and air traffic control would have said. >> here are your directions. >> banfield 101 youre going to igori. continue on your own direct on to egress. and thats what you do. thats how -- this is...

From the plane to satellite according to its speed and altitude. the final ping was sent over water over a normal cruising altitude. aviation official are still investigating the possibility that someone on the plane disabled its communication systems. abc news reports two data recording systems were shut down less than 15 minutes apart, indicating a deliberate act. joining us now former senior air safety with the national transportation safety board greg fife. is there anything we know that doe...

Supposition or is this looking pretty plausible? >> it looks plausible to me at this point. you know, to think of where the pings are coming from, we touched on this before, its acars, the aircraft communication and reporting system. thank you very much. >> and if you could, for the rest of us who dont live your world, thats the first ive really heard much about acars. i dont really understand much about it. >> acars was set up so the information from the aircraft, maintenance information about ...

Blip. the secondary radar waits for the ping and a squawk from the airplane. the secondary sends a signal and the plane sends it back andys i am malaysia systems, 39,000 feet to the northeast and about 025 was the heading. im at 39,000 doing about 450 knots. thats all we know. this is how good we are. that goes back to the air traffic control. we would love to have them take over. it hasnt been implemented yet. heres the rub i will leave that. this is the map of where we are talking about. the p...

Heres more from a wall street journal reporter. >> what we have been able to figure out is after it dropped off radar in the early hours of saturday morning, the aircraft continued to broadcast what is essentially the equivalent of a ping. over the course of the time that that elapsed, at least five hours, the satellite kept pinging the airplane and the airplane said yes, im here. and i can receive data. >> so 24 hours, and were seeing a little bit of a different picture than what we knew just y...

The next ping. because the satellite asked again and there was no answer. so if you take all the information up to that point, now you say we have one dark hour where we have no idea where it was and that gives us at least some better idea of where it was in those other hours when theres really no other information. wolf, its very difficult to explain the technology, were still trying to define it, but this is where all of that information is coming from that has led u.s. searchers to these wate...