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Help them hear those pings. and i think my understanding there's a request out for sonar assistance. but it may not have put into place yet. the one question i have and maybe john knows the answer whether the plane has the acar system in which case data could be downloaded from both the airline and airbus that might also provide information about what was happening. >> that's pose the question to john. do you know if the plane was equipped with that? >> i understand it it was equipped with acars and adsb data data. i believe it's evaluated. it hasn't been released publicly ly yet. >> c is. pre...

Flight. doug, a lot happening overnight. what is the latest? >> a lot of it has to do with the time line about what really happened that night. and a lot of that has to do with that so-called a car system, that flight monitoring system that periodically sends data about the aircraft. the switch is in the center of the console. the question has been was that switched off before or after the last voice transmission from the cockpit which we now believe came from the copilot. if this was switched off first that could indicate flight crew. if it was switched off after all bets are off. the malaysi...

Systems, specifically the transponder of data flow systems, how complicated is it to turn them off? >> it's very easy to turn them off. you never have to leave the seat in the cockpit. a lot of people have made a big deal about the acars system. you can turn the data portion of the acar system off from the cockpit. you don't have to leave the cockpit. dwroint have to flip circuit breakers. it is evident the data portion of the acars was off yet the satellite was still trying to ping the box, the box on the airplane was responding, it just didn't have any data to provide, so it's apparent that ...

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Indonesians, that led me to believe there was something else going on that was not intended as far as conducting this flight. >> greg, the point is that there is evidence that somebody in the crew is turning off its communications, turning off the radar, and all of a sudden you see it re-emerge on a different flight path after a turn. that says to you somebody has made a deliberate decision to commandeer this aircraft and go in a different direction? >> absolutely. there would never be a reason for a pilot to turn off the transponders. that is the key for air traffic controllers to be able to ...