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1:19 the pilot says -- the co-pilot says "all right, good night." two minutes later, everything goes haywire. he's in a situation trying to control the aircraft. we know it was going up or down. we know right then they tried to turn back. the transponder went off. acars never transmitted again. it's a different scenario, we're back to looking at catastrophic failure. the one problem with that, anderson, how does a plane that has a catastrophic failure go on to fly seven more hours? there's also a window for the hijack theory but a very narrow one. this is going to be something that's going to ...

Still operational. we don't know that it had been switched off by the pilots. everybody has been pointing a finger at the pilots because they thought they purposely turned that system off. not true. it wasn't supposed to report. we don't know that right now. this opens up the possibility, the possibility once again of catastrophic failure. 1:19 the pilot says -- the co-pilot says "all right, good night." two minutes later, everything goes haywire. he's in a situation trying to control the aircraft. we know it was going up or down. we know right then they tried to turn back. the transponder wen...

Covering two and a quarter million square nautical miles, an area almost as big as the continental united states. the "new york times" is today reporting that there was a change of course programmed into the jet's navigation system, and more to the point, this information was sent to controllers by that acars system. that's the flight data communications system you've been hearing so much about. acars' last full transmission before it was disabled was at 1:07:00 a.m. 12 minutes before the co pilot's routine, "all right, good night" to the malaysian air traffic controllers. so how do these even...

Said "all right, good night." listen to what the ceo had to say yesterday at the press conference. >> the acars -- last transmission was 1:07. okay. we don't know when the acars was switched off after that. it was supposed to transmit 30 minutes from there another transmission, but that transmission did not come true. that was the very last transmission was 1:07. >> reporter: okay. didn't come true. but here's the point. the pilot said "all right, good night" at 1:19. we know that the transponder went out at 1:21. we don't know that acars was still operational or switched off by the pilots. ev...

And if one of those shorts and starts an electrical fire it's almost impossible to get to it and put it out, and those can affect systems and that can be a very dangerous situation. jenna: is there no way for the pilot to let anyone know that something catastrophic is happening? >> if it takes out his system, and this is the real question because it seems to have taken out multiple backup systems. if the pilot's radios don't work, then you have the, then you have the transponder. you can actually send coded messages through the transponder. if the transponder's not working, you still have your...