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Makes it sound like they're incriminating but they aren't. let's not forget that. and really, frankly, nothing can be ruled out now. most every scenario you come up with you can run it through. some of the more plausible than others. frankly, the crew being responsible for this is a very plausible scenario but one of many that are still possible. >> les abend, you are the pilot here. you flew 777s. paint for me a picture where if the pilot, as some people suspect, took this plane off for whatever reason, what happened? in other words, is it possible that he could have shut down all communicati...

Back into the e and e, the electronics and engineering compartment that's eight feet behind the cockpit and down below the galley. and basically vacate the cockpit. the evidence is such that the acars system was being pinged by the satellite. so he would have had to disable that, too. it just seems so implausible to me. >> you must be talking to pilots all the time about this. i'm talking to random people in the street about this. everyone's obsessed with it for one reason, the mystery remains a mystery. when you talk to pilots, experienced, long service pilots, what is the general feeling you...

Help investigators here? >> we're talking about an investigation that has been over 17 days, with no conclusive leads. so, the analysis that the inmarsat guys are doing, that effectively is the interface between the satellite and the acars system. they use that to provide altitude and speed when the acars system is switched on. and that gives information back to the airline. so, it's a lot of space, 10 million square miles. so, what they've been doing in terms of trying to narrow it

Microphone. this is the type of device are going to be using either towed behind a boat in long tails or in order to listen for that underwater pinger. >> how far can it hear? how wide? >> only about five miles. >> so this is how you're trying to find the basic area of where any flat data recorder might be. >> exactly. you need to find the wreck site. >> so if we go from there, let's take a look at the sonar. because the sonar is what you're going to do if you get closer or if that battery dice on that flight data recorder. >> so this is an example of the sonar. the sonar is going to actively ...

Special projects at the woods hull ocean graphic institution. richard, let's talk about this partial handshake. up until today, everybody believed this last communication occurred what, at 8:11 a.m. now it seems there was another at least attempt to communicate later on, a few minutes later. >> right. and if you read what they say about that partial handshake in the inmarsat report that was released today, inmarsat basically said they couldn't say what it was. they couldn't say whether anything really about it. and they needed to investigate it further. now tonight, the inmarsat spokesman spea...