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Connected to a satellite it's constantly sending that information back to boeing and well send it back to air inc. which is a company that disperses the information. but that information then goes to rolls royce, it goes to boeing, it goes to the manufacturer from there. so to me the pings are very viable. it's what should be happening. what's confusing to me, two things that are confusing to me about that is that those pings that are coming off of there, why then is there not a transponder still on? that was turned off. that's the only explanation i would have. because if the electrical syste...

We hear a lot of talk about the flight data recorder. they have an enormous amount of information about everything that is happening to this plane about the angle of the plane, where all of the flats are, every system on board is being recorded there. tremendous amount of information and voices from the cockpit so you can hear what is going on there. the problem is these do not transmit. they carry that information. they can be collected later to review an incident but they don't send out any information which brings us to one of the last systems we have to talk about because this is the reall...

From. and a lot of talk about the engines, transmitting information to the company. that would be going through the acars system. and we had been led for days that the acars system is not functioning. but now, tiny, tiny blips. not complete information. all we know is that the plane disappeared. and if there was any communication, it was very scant. and you have to wonder if that's just an anomaly. >> and interpreting the signals is an art, not a science. it's not like, this is flight 370, look at me. still to come, the u.s. navy

Couldn't come up with a stranger situation. even if we find the wreckage in one of the oceans, this is still unprecedented. >> and the crucial question of intent as well. thanks very much. appreciate it, john. >> thank you. we have tom foreman here. i want to bring you back in. what about this, as you heard john talking about this. he's never seen anything like this. even if it's found on the flight path, this is unprecedented. >> absolutely. and i want to show you one thing. the acars system, he mentioned it. this is where it would operate

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