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Hours later than planned. >> it sounds like they left the gate at 8:30. then the distress call was heard two hours later. >> that indicates to me that they didnt receive -- didnt have an in flight emergency until well into the flight. theyre already in the mountains, inroute. they have to make the decision first, where am i going to put this down. >> its complicated by that area. otherwise you might have options. if you had -- we saw with harrison ford, he was able to land in a golf course, some...

To the rest of the plane when theres chaos in the cockpit. that in a new theory ive been reading up on. what if this jet swapped positions with another. the squawk codes they send out. one behind another and they switch codes. sounds out there. when you hear about it might make sense. top of the hour. see you then. >> thank you. high drama at a store selling gun parts with feds busting in with weapons drawn violating judges order. that and what they took with them has a lot of gun owners reall...

Air traffic control recordings from takeoff to the point where they say good night. i would love to see that laid up against what radar data they have. and then we can start making maybe a little more reasonable decision about what might have happened here. now, and this whole idea that -- lets assume the turn happened and the controller was asleep. >> the first turn we are talking about you go that first turn, all of a sudden, it veers left. got t >> so that to me takes you down a road where a ...

The instruments look the same. theres a lot of redundancy in this cockpit. when it-- you hear a lot about squawk codes and transponders. they are related. a transponder is a piece of equipment that youll find in the cockpit right here and theres two of them. thats part of the redundancy. the pilot and the co-pilot would each have a transponder to operate. if the aircraft is hijacked the transponder code would be 7500. the pilot would digitally punch in 7500. air traffic control would know right ...