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So it's intended to provide all the information that john mentioned before from wall street is the engine information, the speed information, it tells us about vibration information. if there was a bomb or something that happened dramatically on board or a fire even would cause enough vibration that that data would have been sent back. there's 10,000 data points a second that are being sent through that acars system. so i find it difficult to believe that those pings contain data. i do believe that those pings do exist and that the united states satellites have been picking up those pings and ...

You've heard? >> well, to talk about prohib probability of likelihood, let's assume that the pings, and i'm referring to the ping as like an internet protocol ping when you are verifying an ip address you send a ping out to see if you have a response. that's what i'm referring to when i say ping from the acars system. because it has to communicate, send that ping out and get the reinformation back. so let's assume there really were pings coming from that location. now assuming that, i find it extremely difficult to think that somehow the system failed, that 777 is the most reliable aircraft in...

Manufacturers, everybody to do with that aircraft they're obligated by annex 13 not to report to the public but to the civil authority in charge of that accident. they cannot release their names, any information we have now is probably being ill-gotten. because of the fact it's not really -- they can't report that information. >> let me ask you, david souci. you're very experienced in this field. but nobody however experienced can really fathom what has gone on here. what do you think is the most likely of all the theories you've heard? >> well, to talk about probability of likelihood, let's a...

The hijacker terrorism scenario, if we're talking mechanical, it has to hit the electrics and the acars system. >> and the acars and the transponder are not considered essential components on the airplane. they're not the things you absolutely have to have to navigate and to fly the aircraft. so they're going to be on an electrical bus that the primary navigation radios of your primary navigation and radios systems. because a fire in one spot, cockpit fills up with smoke, incipient, comes on slowly. but when it comes a cockpit fills up with smoke quickly, it's a small contained space. these gu...

>> okay. let me turn now to david suse, former faa safety inspector. we don't have the answers here. this is one of the great mysteries in aviation history and gets more mysterious by the day. having said that we have more information than we seem to have had at any stage in this week. if you take the assumption that these pings -- it's interesting i thought what jim tillman just said, the pings themselves, is that correct? do you know when they are supposed to go off? do they go off when a plane is at normal altitude or are they supposed to just work when a plane hits the water? >> i'm out of...