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Action by someone on the plane. >> reporter: working with limited verifiable information, malaysia's prime minister says it's too early to call this a hijacking. investigators reached the conclusion this could not simply be a catastrophic aircraft failure after reviewing the limited hard facts they do have. the last known contacts with flight 370 were timed pings from the jet's so-called acars system, but those automated pings went every hour for five hours were empty. they had no flight data as they're supposed to. 14 minutes after that first empty ping the jet's transponder mysteriously stop...

But even after acars is turned off, acars sends what are called handshake signals to satellites. and what authorities are saying is that some of these signals were detected by satellite, and from that we've been able to calculate the distance from the satellite that the plane may have been. and that's what led to that map that you were showing earlier. >> and share what you discovered about passenger cell phones. a lot of them are equipped with gps system. they have those chips. one would think that maybe that might help in the search. >> well, that's a really great question. you know, what gp...

And today, they sent the prime minister, himself, to go before the world press to say that we have analyzed this exhaustively, and we are believing that it is firm that this is the case as helped by the united states. and if we take this as one of the bedrock facts of the case, it is highly significant and rule out any of the accident sna scenarios that you mentioned briefly. >> and the thing about it being preprogrammed and this is abc, again, abc news reporting. when you talk about the other systems turned off, can can you do that remotely or does it have to be physically turned off by the p...

In the world of whiting that all right, good night, could have been a code for something else that perhaps could have been in way sort of a mayday? >> no. i don't believe so. and if it is, it's not -- nothing that i've ever heard of before. one would have expected a full readout to be something along the lines of, malaysia, 3-7-0, contact, whatever the sequence was and he would have said the frequency he needs to contact vietnam, malaysia, 3-7-0, good night nap would have been the normal way. we don't know, i think whoever was revealing that all right, good night, didn't give us the whole read...

370 is flying here, but when you drop off here and you get these pings of something flying there, that's why they have come up with all of this. if united states officials are coming forward with this information saying this is the route, here's where we're searching and we're looking into whether somebody was piloting the thing at the time and not communicating with us. at least for the first time it's not contradictory and it paints -- it brings together a puzzle that on some level makes sense. >> it's beginning to come together, i agree. 250 people on board. i'm angry at the malaysian gover...