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Handshakes. you then see in this when it loses its acars, its communications ability using the data link. and then finally, you see these satellite handshakes, where the plane and the satellite are saying hello to each other and where they are recording both the time that takes and the frequency differential, the so-called doppler. now, satellite experts and engineers -- obviously, i'm not one of those -- they will be able to make sense of this. but what they won't be able to do is recreate inmarsat's numbers. and the reason is because there are many other components, christine. you've got the...

Because of the program that you and i and the panel have been doing for the last six, seven weeks. because unlike anywhere else in many ways we have really thrashed these issues out. so, when i sat down with the malaysian prime minister, i'm remembering what you and i have talked about so many times. i really needed to know when the transponder was switched off. when the acars stopped, been disabled, when the left turn happened, what did malaysia's military see? >> now, the military radar, the radar has some capability. it tracked an aircraft which did a turn back. but they were not sure wheth...

Because unlike anywhere else in many ways we have really thrashed these issues out. so, when i sat down with the malaysian prime minister, i'm remembering what you and i have talked about so many times. i really needed to know when the transponder was switched off. when the acars stopped, been disabled, when the left turn happened, what did malaysia's military see? >> now, the military radar, the radar has some capability. it tracked an aircraft which did a turn back. but they were not sure whether it was mh-370. what they were sure of was that the aircraft was not deem to be hostile. >> no pl...

That should have raised alarms and initiated emergency procedures that should have started something going long before aircraft would have been called to go and check the airplane out. >> walk me through that. >> do you remember the timeline? let's walk through that. 1:07, acars gives the last transmission. 1:19, there's that kuala lumpur looking forward to. and 1:21 is the last transmission from the transponder. the transponder is key in this. it was sidewalking the numbers 2157. that drops off the radar screen. that is the first point when area radar controllers should have started raising a...