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Pre-programmed waypoint changes of last week. we all reported. that turned out to be false. now the malaysians are getting the bad rap for that because everyone said they said it. but they put out the statement on saturday saying that the acars that after 1:07 nothing happened. we have to separate fact from myth from what we believe has been said. and the truth is at this point we have absolutely no idea officially what took place. >> to add on what richard said, this is an accident investigation. there is a lot of proprietary information that in the states and malaysia probably has the same s...

Satellites that go around and around, this is geo-stationary. it is locked in the indian ocean. this is the aircraft that uses the acars, now what that does it talk to the inmarsat. when it is a certain amount of miles it automatically defaults to sat com. like, for example, your wi-fi, it automatically locks onto verizon, that is the way it works. we know it was turned off. however, despite the fact it was turned out this satellite will send a little hand shake every hour to say hey, you're still awake? it will get information back saying yes, i'm still here. >> that is the ping? >> yes. >> t...

Is there not some kind of equivalent of a panic button that a pilot or co pilot can press that alerts the airline that somebody somewhere is a major problem. >> there's nine different panic buttons. >> is it feasible that they weren't able to do any of that, shorter than an explosion which has blown this plane to pieces in a second, is it feasible that if it had been an accident of some kind none of them would have had time to alert anyone? >> the only thing i can think that's common to everything that we have out, the transponders, the acars, any of the vhf radios, all of that is located down...

The wrong route. we should be concentrating on the facts, getting back to whether the transponders and acars has been and focusing on that. this is pie in the sky. >> les? >> orchestrating something -- somebody is on the same route, it might be semiplausible. but the way this scenario was going out, there was a triangulation that had to get drbt airplane had to catch, just too much. >> before i go to mary, jeff is like, one more thing. >> yes. >> one thing i want to say, which is this, people are trying to understand whether a northern route is possible. some say it is impossible because you c...

Beijing. the 777 is carrying 239 people on board. one of the plane's critical communication system called acars sends its final information. it sends it via satellite. we now know it shows the plane remained on course for beijing, contradicting earlier reports that the pilot's programmed a change in the cockpit before sending their final transmission. a transcript from london's telegraph newspaper reveals there is nothing out of the ordinary nar in their communications with air traffic control. and then this exchange. mh-370, please contact ho chi minh city, good night.