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Was nefarious or mechanical it happened as a result of that transponder and that acars getting shut off. >> what is clear now, the captain was the last person on the jet, not his co-pilot, to speak to air traffic controllers, telling them good night, malaysian flight 370. the sources say there was nothing unusual about his voice which portrayed no indication he was under stress and no third voice is heard. and just today, more than a month after the flight disappeared, we're learning malaysian air force search aircraft were dispatched soon after the airline reported its plane missing. malaysia...

There. >> it's irrelevant. >> would that change the likelihood of him being at the controls? >> no. because he was an experienced or a semi experienced. he had 2,000 odd hours on 737. >> are you surprised? >> you are going to be shocked, but i do not agree with you for the following reason. you have to look at the facts in the context of the accident sequence, which began at 1:0 when acars reported everything okay. 11919 was the last communication. two minutes later, the transponder is off. and now we start the turn and maybe a descent, maybe a climb. we don't know. but here is the thing. the ...

Because no longer do you have to search these large areas. you you can just search where you believe the forward drift of debris would have come from where the plane probably entered the water out. >> and you've got current, wind, a cyclone blow through. so that's why it's a different plane. >> absolutely. >> we'll continue to watch. that's the thing that i think is fascinating, they have yet to find a debris field. this is opposite of the direction they normally go with these investigations. >> nothing about this has been normal, from the moment at 1:07 when the acar had the last transmission...

Airlines flight 370 sparking new calls to improve air security by making it impossible to shut off a jet's key safety system. suggestions include better protection of the voice and data recorders, making it practically impossible for anyone to cut power to these devices in mid-air, and possible expansion of real-time satellite tracking of practically all airliners. john, great to see you. let's break it down with the four systems that you did in your article. these are the systems that could be tampered with. start with the acars. what is it and how can it be tempered with? >> the acars system...

And still no sign of this plane. it's almost unfathomable to me, jeffrey thomas. >> look, indeed. and every almost of this, the transponder turning off, the acars. we had the guys with the passports. the false passports. we've had military radar tracking it. we've had more conspiracy theories than you can ever imagine. some of them are almost believable. this is just -- this rewrites the whole book on aviation disasters and they'll be talking about 370 for decades and decades to come as changing the rulebook of aviation. >> go ahead, mike. >> yeah, i mean, i just think we need to look at this ...