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That perhaps the partial handshake was the plane reaching out trying to give information. >> yeah, for me that's the only explanation for it. as far as the reliance of the schedule of these pings, the last three or four were every hour. the ones before that were not. there were attempts and it couldn't connect. so there was times when it did that. what concerns me is there was a full hour, a little bit more, where there was nothing, but then after that you had regular for three pings in a row, you had regular hourly reports. typical of the sat com. it says, i'm here, do i have anything to repo...

You don't seem convinced to me? >> i'm not 100% convinced because of the assumptions we've had to make. we're over 17 days into this investigation and we have nothing. so this is the only lead we have. >> there's one change in the time line today that kind of concerned me. we were always saying the route was changed, in other words, the flight path was changed inside the cockpit, meaning it had to be done manually by the pilots, we were told that was done before they said good night. now they're says, no, no, no, that was after. now they're going back to before. it keeps changing. how importan...

It transmits one of those information feeds it will let you know what the next waypoint is, not the route, but the next waypoint. without that, i'm not sure how people understand what was going on in the cockpit. >> what possible explanation could it be with this shift in path, if not done by design? >> well, again -- >> by either the pilot or someone else on the plane. >> you hit the two nails on the head, the trans responder and the acars are critical. that's how we knew where the air france flight went down. we don't have this, which is why it's not even -- when people talk about looking fo...

Airplane, we're scouring as they have been with planes and search vehicles of every type, nothing so far. why make the conclusion that -- the definitive conclusion it went down here? >> yeah, again, i don't think you can. i think it's the most likely explanation. and i'm with michael on the time line issues, because there's no real way to tell who did what when if acars was off. i don't know where they're getting all that information from. >> even what he's talking about in terms of the waves, the different waves and the analysis in terms of the signals going up to the satellite, do you agree ...

It transmits one of those information feeds it will let you know what the next waypoint is, not the route, but the next waypoint. without that, i'm not sure how people understand what was going on in the cockpit. >> what possible explanation could it be with this shift in path, if not done by design? >> well, again -- >> by either the pilot or someone else on the plane. >> you hit the two nails on the head, the trans responder and the acars are critical. that's how we knew where the air france flight went down. we don't have this, which is why it's not even -- when people talk about looking fo...