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Positioning. nine minutes later, the radar loses the plane all together. here's what's new. i want to you follow me step by step. the acars system was programmed to transmit information in 30-minute intervals. the next scheduled data burst would be at 1:37. that didn't happen. they admit from 1:07 to 1:37, they have no idea when that acars equipment stopped working. it could have stopped at any point during that 30-minute block of time. that's a much different story than what we heard this weekend when authorities in malaysia stated that the two systems, acars and the transponder went off sepa...