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Plane on their radar. the indonesians say they never saw the plane on their radar. both of them may have missed it. but if you look at the map, and we're showing what's going on, it sounds like maybe the crew was deliberately trying, if you believe the thai and the -- the thai radar experts and the indonesian radar experts, you may be convinced that the crew was deliberately trying to avoid radar. >> i think there's a lot of fantasy to something like that. i think if somebody wanted to deliberately avoid radar, i mean -- it looked as though they turned off the transponder. the acars stopped. i...

Sometimes where they give to cut costs? >> maintenance, you agree with that. >> i agree with that, they did not subscribe to the entire acars situation, they made sure they saved money on those things. >> michael, i would argue after this incident we have to learn to at least be able to track any airplane in the sky at one point in time. is that one of the things we learned today here? >> yeah, i already think that system is in process, sean, there is a realization that that tracking needs to get better. and procedures put in place, with the western airlines what i think it will do is expedite...

Function shortly after the last communication. it could have experienced an electrical problem. the component could have failed or it could have been switched off. we don't know. but what we do know is that the data link system known as acars was stopped from transmitting data, but the unit itself continued to talk to the satellites. that takes specialized knowledge and it takes some deliberate key strokes into the computer system to disable its ability to transmit data. that's a deliberate act by someone with knowledge. and so that is an important distinction and difference between all the ot...

Air crew of flight 370 was trying to bring the plane to safety. why do you believe that and what evidence is there to prove your theory? >> i felt all along that the air crew were getting the short end of the stick here, that i had a feeling that they were almost being framed by the way that the discoveries were being cast, as though they had intervened. i think there's a very plausible scenario here and i think it's few days when we found out, for example, the acars was turned off after the last communication, not before and the change of course was -- came after the last communication and no...

Board. any engine failure. all the communications equipment was apparently turned off. you have five radios, the two transponders, to acars, the odds of that failing at the same time absent a catastrophic event has got to be very, very long. because boeing designs this airplane to be redundant and to separate the electronics so that you don't have a multiple failure at one time. >> and then on top of it the plane under this theory would have had to fly another five, six, seven hours crippled in that way after the catastrophic failure so devastating, that checked on the systems but allowed the ...