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Through a trap door right by the planes left hand front exit in full view of the cabin crew to switch the circuit breakers. at 1:19 a.m., the plane signed off from malaysian air traffic control. >> the last voice message from the aircraft was from the co-pilot who said, all right, good night. >> at 1:21 a.m., just as mh-370 was meant to be signing in with vietnams air traffic control, malaysian authorities say the planes transponder, which transmits the planes location to ground controllers, was...

Program that you had to be very sophisticated in knowing where they were and to dismantle them. i mean, you would have to have somebody there. plus, the malaysian jet, like all other jets is a secure facility. its a locked door. you have to get through that door, correct? >> locked, bullet proof, its solid. >> its not like you knock and say come on in. and the other thing is -- i dont want to mock my colleagues but there is really nothing i could do. there is the theory this thing went up 45,000...

Gathere gatherers, a portion of which is designed to track aircraft discreet communications. we suspect this was the continued ping from the acars system that they were tracking, piced up and then there was finality there. ten space satellites in orbit about 22 miles up. and with ten, they can cross reference, triangulate the position fairly accurately. they probably have a darn good idea as to where this aircraft went down. and its very interesting. because the prevailing winds and currents whe...

Any debris on the sea floor and the acoustic finding of the pinger signal more difficult. >> yeah, i mean, jay, final question to you. thats what it sounds like to me. i mean, part of the big -- you know, in addition to debris, were looking for this black box and the ping. theres a little bit of a race against time. but if youre talking about that kind of terrain, i would think that makes it all the more complicated to try and locate. >> youre absolutely right, karen. because some of the heavies...

That turn as you suggested, that sharp left bank. and headed out over the straight of malacca and up towards the sea and perhaps the indian ocean and bay of bengal, outside of india. the reason they are looking at that and that now has expanded the search zone because obviously somebody had to do that deliberately. because the military radar picked that up and that was the last known point, that expands the search zone rather dramatically. originally they were looking on the east coast of malays...

Number one, the -- actually i should say theres one main reason why a ping would stop. and thats the satellite communication system would stop receiving electricity. and there are two reasons why that could have happened. the system could have been shut off by someone or something. or specifically that there was some kind of catastrophic event that caused power on the aircraft to stop. so based on these two scenarios, this is, again, you know, the latest in a series of bread crumbs that are lead...

Then what the air traffic controller uses is synthetic picture, a coast he here and coast here and uses it to paint what the trans atlanta flight would be. if we knew where we lost the ping, near the coast, i agree, most likely had to be turned off. if its outside 200 miles we dont know if the transponder dropped off the radar or turned off. >> seems like more on the line you drew. ive got to ask you this. youve been gracious, spent five days. here we are at the end of the week, two weeks since ...

And it made contact. now you didnt send a text, but a connection was made. that is what happened on this jet. u.s. officials now tell us and other media organizations that this ping, if you will, happened for four to five hours. meaning this plane flew along this route with no communication of any kind, with no may day call, no communication with anybody on the back of the plane. nobody got on computers or sent out a message, there was nothing. yet it flew for four or five hours. what does it te...

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Its last transmission. it was, apparently, disabled sometime within the next half hour after that transmission. a maneuver that may have required someone to climb through a trap door right by the planes left hand front exit in full view of the cabin crew to switch the circuit breakers. at 1:19 a.m., the plane signed off from malaysian air traffic control. >> the last voice message from the aircraft was from the co-pilot who said, all right, good night. >> at 1:21 a.m. just as mh-370 was meant to...