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One has inspected any international forces, no international organization has inspected the pakistani air fields or the iranian air fields or anything like that. so i don't think we can rule anything out including terrorism. we also have to look at patterns of behavior on the pilot and co-pilot. and they have some very interesting patterns of behavior despite what his son said. first of all, the captain of an airplane is in charge if anything goes wrong. if it is mechanical or something like that, he still must take certain actions. there were actions that were taken prior to the transponder b...

Is logged, it is filed and it is kept. i've never seen such meticulous bookkeeping as when it comes both from airbus and boeing, and they used to do it on files in little pieces of paper and they could pull it out. now it's all computerized. you put it into the system. it tells you where it was manufactured. it tells you what plane it was on. >> richard quest, good analysis as usual. thank you. to our viewers in north america, "crossfire" won't be seen today so we can bring you more of our special report on the mystery of flight 370. coming up, an emotional interview with the partner of an ame...

Huge, it's mammoth. >> what is the solution here? the families watching we reported the news and analyze it but there are families hundreds of family members watch this thinking oh, my god they see debris what are they talking about? a loved one? belongings? a plane? they want to know. they don't understand why a satellite can't 0 in on something that mieft prove to be a life jacket. why jets can't get there fast enough. >> it's a painful situation. unfortunately there is no answer. if you look at air france 447 that acars was off we knew where the wreckage was early on. it took two years to f...

One has inspected any international forces, no international organization has inspected the pakistani air fields or the iranian air fields or anything like that. so i don't think we can rule anything out including terrorism. we also have to look at patterns of behavior on the pilot and co-pilot. and they have some very interesting patterns of behavior despite what his son said. first of all, the captain of an airplane is in charge if anything goes wrong. if it is mechanical or something like that, he still must take certain actions. there were actions that were taken prior to the transponder b...

Cockpit. you just turn the button, it's off. the acars system is a little bit more complicated to turn that off. i don't know if you can do it from strictly sitting in the cockpit or if you have to leave the cockpit and go to the underbelly. how do you turn off the acars system? >> the only reason you'd be pulling a circuit breaker in the cockpit. you could turn off part of acars system. >> that would turn it off. >> the only reason you'd be pulling a circuit breaker in the cockpit by manual operations is to prevent, say, a fire from continuing. it's really to prevent a bus, an electric bus fr...