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>> control display unit. >> control display unit. i hit this and you can see acars comes up. i punch this and i can get into the system this way. there's one here, one here, one here. that's three. with this there's four systems that are all part of acars. so four backups, if you will. i can get into the menu and begin to shut things off. think of like your iphone where you turn off the wi-fi and maybe turn off the bluetooth, eventually maybe turn off the cellular. but that phone is still communicating even with that shutdown with the main telephone system. i can degrade the system. i can't sh...

Was changed, possibly still at the gate, possibly later, to program in this return in a routined, controlled, unhurried fashion. >> so that would seemingly rule out, they say "all right, good night" and then they do something because the transmission has already happened and also it would seem to rule out that this turn was done as a panicked response to something, such as a fire in the cockpit or something like that? >> that's the clear implication. it was intentional. it was premeditated. >> this is not a theory. this is what your sources say was transmitted back through the acars system? >>...

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 went back. 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?...

Airplane, we don't know -- we know what the system does for us but to know every detail down there, i mean i'm considered an expert. i don't know every detail. i don't know every box. i would really have to study some more engineering and schematics to really know what everything does down there. >> as a pilot, would you be able to turn off the acars system? >> i'd have to climb down there and figure out which one of these boxes would do it. >> so it's not something isn't routine training that you would learn. >> absolutely not. but as far as your question is concerned, i've always asserted th...

The last known communication with the plane with radar was as it was heading north over the strait gt of malacca. the last ping was about 7 hours in to the flight. that puts it somewhere on a very big arc. after initially saying the plane's last acars system was turned off before the last cockpit call suggesting pilot involvement, malaysian officials are thousand saying they have no idea when the acars system was actually turned off. they have searched the co-pilot's and pilot the's houses focusing on a flight simulator the pilot owned, but so far they have not turned up any clues. >> still lo...