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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 that there was some type of mechanical issue that started, as we talked prior to our show time, that might have progressively gotten wo...

Want to go to and you punch in that waypoint code. there's like four letters or numbers on that code and the plane turns or you can turn your auto pilot. you can instruct the auto pilot to turn and it will go to that waypoint and then that's in the computer but you didn't punch in it. so we know it happened. we know they were going to the waypoint but the biggest mystery is still how, why, who? but we at least now have a better heading thanks to the thai government. most helpful. >> let's talk for a second about the reason why it's so significant whether or not this information about the direc...

Theory. eventually you can come back to the same problem. if there had been a fire or if something had failed on the plane or anything like that, the acars would have noticed it and would have reported it. that's the problem with the mechanical theory. it would have had to have been instant. it would have had to have literally disabled -- a good question for the captain there, isn't that one of the issues, though, when we look at the mechanical problems that may have happened in the electronics bay or elsewhere on the aircraft, it would have had to have hit acars before acars could have report...

Because there would have been more information, perhaps easier to finding and we would have found it by now. >> one of the important things is, if there had been a fire, if there had been something failing, acars would have reported this. we saw this in 447. the first thing of anything wrong was 24 messages. a lot went on acars told the ground. a flag came up on the pilot's display, acars told the ground. anything that happens in that cockpit where they are at the moment, martin, acars will tell the ground. >> so even though they weren't subscribing to the more advanced system -- >> oh, you're...

The last transmission was at 1:07, the acars system wasn't supposed to report back for another 30 minutes, 1:37, well after the time that the pilot said "all right, good night." listen to what the ceo had to say yesterday at the press conference. >> the acars -- last acars 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 r...