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After 1:07 the acars system would have triggered the same tee vi device to communicate. >> more than seven hours between the last acars and then this final communication, or attempted communication. seven hours. that mystery what was going on for those seven hours in that aircraft. david gallo, how optimistic are you at this point? you co-led the search for air france flight 447. you confirmed debris after a couple of days, a few days. started to retrieve debris on day five. still took five years to obtain the flight recorders. we're in the third week of this and still no debris. >> anderson, ...

Were going on or any information from the flight data or the voice recorder. you've heard that suspicion as well. >> that's right. that the recorders may never be found. and then if they are, the voice recorder part of the recorders is probably going to be written over and there will be no cockpit voice recording that occurred at the time of the initial turning off the transponders and the acars stopping the broadcast and the plane making the left turn, then other left turns, all of that will be lost from the voice recorder. these pilot suicides in the past, it was determined by the voices, th...

Handshake. the satellites had been making them at regular intervals with the flight for hours and hours, but at the very end, there was a partial handshake. what does that indicate to you? >> to me, it's the most exciting piece of information we've had in a long time. that last ping, they had been regular intervals. then nine minutes after, it pings again. that tells me that the sat back in the back of the aircraft, top part of the aircraft, it's sending out this signal. it talks with the satellite. what i think happened with the acars, it had been separated somehow. the sat com system takes i...

The cockpit voice recorder only records 30 minutes back. you're never going to hear what happened seven hours, three hours, five hours. and the flight data recorder records two hours back. you may get information about what systems were working and not, but i don't think you're ever going to get hard evidence of a deliberate act, and i think the indication is going to be that it was some type of a mechanical failure. >> the question i have goes back to this, how everything. we're talking with captain cox and bob hager how everything seemed to be switched off. all of the sudden at one something...

How did it get there? who made it get there? then, you have what has been from day one, the criminal side runs parallel kind of just in case. did a pilot, did a member of the crew, did a passenger, somebody on the ground that services the aircraft, have something to do with this disappearance? really, not having the flight recorders, i don't know if we will ever know without those flight recorders. even if we get the flight recorders, the voice recorder, the cockpit voice recorder may have written over the recordings that occurred at the time that plane changed direction when the transponder w...