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Method are the yyou going to us actually follow this aircraft? anything you do, any of the normal mechanisms of radar or coms or anything at all that you would use to follow them would naturally be picked up by somebody else. the t-cass, that you can't switch on your responder to find him because his t-crass, the emergency avoidance system would light up like a christmas tree. you can't switch on your acars. your radar will be extremely limited. at any moment you might fly into a fog bank or cloud. while it's a deliciously enticing theory, it doesn't bear scrutiny in the cold light of facts. n...

For that plane. it does so every hour we understand. what happened is even though the transponder and the acars system were disabled and not transmitting. note, i don't say switched off. we are still not sure. we still do not know why. all we know is that they were not transmitting. the satellite continues to look for it. in a very fundamental, basic sort of way, it is a bit like the plane is still discoverable. the plane is still got its antenna out. i am not suggesting it is blue tooth. it is the idea that the satellite looks for these things and sees, oh, yes, there is a plane there. it can...

Intervention. remember all the maintenance messages that got back. that's what the acars system does in part. they use it to communicate to the home office if they had the data plan. the data we could have gotten is missed because they didn't have the data plan. >> it is a shame we don't have it now. john lucich, thanks so much for being with us. we'll get back to our top story in just a moment. just minutes ago, president announced sanctions against key figures. he has been clear that neither the u.s. or many others recognize crimea's referendum vote that was held sunday to leave ukraine ...

Willingness or not. joining me now is tom costello who has been covering the investigation. aviation veteran and former pilot captain john cox with us from tampa. first to you, what is the latest? what do we know? >> the latest from the malaysians this morning, they now say they cannot be certain when exactly that auto mated data transmitting system was turned off. they know the last transmission was 1:07 a.m. it is not a continuous stream of information. what they are saying is there's supposed to be another data burst at 20 minutes later and it didn't come. they don't know when it went down ...

Intent and also shows, we are looking at the pilot or somebody on board that was trying to do this purposefully. >> i believe the investigation has to look at everything, right down to the guy that fueled the aircraft. i don't believe there is anything that said these pilots did anything wrong. as a former corporate pilot myself, i can tell you that having a simulator in your house, there is nothing wrong with that. >> there is no proof that the pilots did something wrong but there were these satellite pings going on for seven hours that indicates to you that someone was flying this plane acti...