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The puzzle. hard to know what it means without more information. >> absolutely. pamela doing great reporting there. the big question is they tells us a little bit, and then it changes. or they tell you more. there is one thing we know. they know a lot more than this one little piece about this phone. richard quest and arthur rosenberg are with us. given that there is a lot we don't know and that is a small piece of this, this you say is not coincidence the copilot's cell phone was on. >> right. to get to that point, i say you have to look at this new crumb of information. the malaysians have b...

About. that one just doesn't have a whole lot of logic involved. >> this is a tweet from eric. he says if the pilot was able to disable acars, et cetera, how hard would it be to disable, disconnect black boxes? >> that's something we talked about actually a while ago. it seems they could have indeed turned off the black boxes. if indeed we find the flight data recorder, there might not be anything on them. >> mary schiavo, this is from david, and david says why don't pingers ping in unique code in morse instead of a common single ping? i would imagine then we would know for sure, you'd say, we...

>> there are many backup systems and communication devices available to the crew. you have to remember, they had two -- at least two operating independent radio or voice communication. they had one operating for acars communication and the transponder for radar signal and communication. and for all of those things to be shut out, to stop working means either a massive electrical failure, which is highly unlikely with an aircraft with that many backup systems or something else that we can't even imagine right now which really points to the fact that it is very important that we find this airpla...

Much and really wants to contribute. >> yeah, but where do we go from here? is there a lesson to be learned yet because we don't even know what caused it. i think the lesson is, though, in tracking an airplane and how not to lose an airplane. >> absolutely. that was the number one discussion that the air crash investigators conference. everyone's conclusion was the constant downloading, the glass box as opposed to the black box theory or there are still some other possibilities out there, make everyone subscribe to the systems status update messages, you know, those constant messages of the he...

Aircraft under what is a busy civilian passenger jetway. because, of course, at that time, there was no information being transmitted from the aircraft that would have been picked up by other aircraft to give it an indication, which, again, for investigators would tell them perhaps that whoever was piloting the aircraft would have been aware that that transponder had failed. to transmit that information, the acars information, so therefore, it had to fly under the path of these other jets, which again links up a very important fact. mechanical problem that turned the acars satellite locating s...