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The good night call, obviously there was no duress signal given from the pilots to the people they were communicating with. and as my friend patrick and other pilots can tell you, there is a way to communicate duress not only with the transponder codes but also what you say verbally. so if in fact a decision had been made and they had been coerced and unwillingly turned the plane, they could have given a duress signal. they didnt do that. perhaps they did have other people on the airplane with t...

Serial numbers and so forth. so theres probably easier ways to get your hands on a few million bucks. >> here is one from f.s. taylor. anyone been able to investigate the men traveling on the passports yet, any connection to the pilots? jeff beatty, youve been looking at that. and youve been taking another look at passports. >> i think that really leads to the question of were there people that were helping the pilots because first we have to look at -- and what you mentioned at the head of the ...

Handoff to the vietnamese prol controller bp but that was not done. an ominous foreboding of what was to follow. what happened happened rapidly. a plane that immediately turned back to the southwest. a plane no longer being followed, identified with transponder codes. you have a plane which was paintsed with primary radar hits and the information heading to the west coast tv towards the andaman islands and this plane was flown either on autopilot or by hand to those waypoints. it was flown inten...

Have a satellite phone that operates independent of the airplanes electrical system. may or may not have worked in the cockpit. but more likely scenario is that somebody just didnt want to talk. and if they dont want to talk to you, you can be screaming and yelling, but if you shut everything off, theres no transponder codes for the secondary radar to pick up. nobody answering the phone, so to speak, or answering the radio. that creates a problem. more likely, electrical problem. if its not terr...

Phone rings. flying in the wrong direction, here are the latest developments. according to a radar data flight 370 inexplicably veered from its flight path, essentially flying for another hour before the contact was lost. the identifying transponder codes stopped sending which could mean a catastrophic power loss or somebody turned them off our correspondents will bring you the kind of coverage that cnn can deliver. we bring you to kuala lumpur. andrew, why did it take four days to find this cri...