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Parts to that system. and they can be separated,iteslated. if the acars transmission system is separate, which is called the s.a.t. com and also used as vhf. what we're talking about here are the pings or last transmission attempting to connect rather than the acars system. the s.a.t. com is the communication mechanism to the satellite. but the acars data is stored on the acars system and transmitted through the s.a.t. com so it's possible there is a separate way to turn off the acars without disarming s.a.t.come, the way i interpret this data, two different things going on here. the fact that...

To come in, and it does not. so sometime in that 30-minute period, that's when the transponder is turned off. but effectively, we don't know what happened first, right? something could have happened to acars first. the transponder could have happened first. and that is significant why? >> well, here's the problem. all these issues keep conflicting each other. all these reports conflict each other. the fact that it's been talking to the satellites for seven hours, it's the acars system that typically talks to the satellite to send its data back. so what's talking to the satellite if it's not th...