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Methodical things are. they turn off the transponders, the acar system, all of those things that you could track the airplane with, somebody knew what they were doing. it could be a form of terrorism. >> >> looking for answers, authorities launch a search and investigation unprecedented in size and scope. in a post 9/11 world, they zero in on possible suspects. >> the discovery that two passengers were using stolen passports have raised the suspicions of officials. >> the first few days, when that storyline came out, that's what everybody built the storyline on

Automated signals registered on the inmarsat network. this is, in a sense, the so-called, what's become known as the hand shake. your satellite looks for planes. it found a plane but didn't receive any data. i'm simplifying. is that the gist of it? >> richard, as ever, you are spot-on. the system is simple. if you think about the satellite network the same as a mobile phone network, you think of the on-board box, the classic arrow from inmarsat as the hand set and then any apps like the acar system or voice communications, as being apps on the hand set. the app were turned off by the hand set ...

And started the descent. >> david, this new information coming in. the question is, where is this plane? >> well, it is still significant. this piece of information for a lot of reasons. the one reason, the one thing that concerns me, even if the pilots didn't have time to communicate this. there are other systems on the aircraft that automatically report it. again, i'm referring to the eight car system. so why that did not report it, try to connection and make an attempt to connect and report that something was going wrong. that's what concerns me a lot. the other thing is that if they were n...

Hold. so knowing that, we would quickly look up here to the fire panel and discharge the fire bottles back there. essentially the fire extinguishers. you have fire retardant dumping down there and you are hoping this is enough to extinguish the blaze. in the meantime mitchell would already be starting to turn us back either to where we came from or to the nearest airport. we want to get down low and we definitely want to start talking on the radios to get us into an emergency landing because fire is about the worst scenario. however, it's possible that the co-pilot could now be down below in t...