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Their theories. The big question, and i think, jeff, you said this, a reward would be pennies on the dollars. Exactly. Why isnt there a reward posted . A reward would be pennies on the dollar for what this search is costing. Thanks for joining us. Good evening. Its 11 00 on the east coast. 11 00 a. M. In malaysia. We begin with several pieces of information. Item one, the search zone is focusing on the southwest coast of australia. Item two, investigators tell us the path it took, the path caught on radar suggests the rout was preprogrammed to hit certain navigational points. Item three, the f...

Minutes. it was -- the reports being transmitted. so if you spend more money, you get to have more frequent acars transmissions. here's the problem -- these systems can be turned off. that's what happened in the case of mh 370. the acars system was turned off. and so part of this would be, you know, boosting up the amount of information that's broadcast. another part would be making sure it's not turned off if you want to avoid this kind of situation again. >> so david, richard quest reporting that the streaming flight information is a recommendation in the malaysia preliminary report as far a...

About it. i will tell you this, it's possible that the transcript they got is incomplete, could be some acars transmission, air traffic control to the crew. you have to remember, it's not just one tape rolling somewhere. there's the tower frequency, ground control, center frequencies. in order to get this all compiled would take quite a bit of work. i'm not sure that the telegraph has done this. we don't know yet. >> and what conversations are recorded at all? i mean, every single one of them in different places, as miles explained? >> absolutely. they have that information but i agree with mi...

You. >> okay. but you have to go, when you say to the folks watching remote, somebody could have taken over, i mean, i think that's impossible to take a big airliner and somebody some place saying okay, now i'm going to crash it and the pilot is struggling to maintain control. >> even if admit that were true, it wouldn't explain why the transponder was turned off or the acar system was turned off. all of that had to be done manly by a person. the heavy odds, and that's what we have to deal with those of us that are responsible in the news business, and that number is shrinking. we have to deal...

You. >> okay. but you have to go, when you say to the folks watching remote, somebody could have taken over, i mean, i think that's impossible to take a big airliner and somebody some place saying okay, now i'm going to crash it and the pilot is struggling to maintain control. >> even if admit that were true, it wouldn't explain why the transponder was turned off or the acar system was turned off. all of that had to be done manly by a person. the heavy odds, and that's what we have to deal with those of us that are responsible in the news business, and that number is shrinking. we have to deal...