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Disappeared. nearly eight hours after takeoff and seven hours after air traffic control lost track of the aircraft. but still, no answers as to where it was going or why. the search is expanded to a daunting area off malaysia's west coast, including a northern and southern track in the indian ocean. sunday, march 16. authorities claim the plane's communication system known as acars, was disabled before the pilot's last words to air traffic control, leading to questions about why the crew did not raise this issue. but the timing of the acars shutdown would later be called into question. that sa...

Would have been able to make it to pakistan. could it remain stealthy and undetected? the acars was turned off. the transponder was turned off. i do believe that the indian radar may have picked it up, i do believe it would be quite difficult to get the aircraft to pakistan, in my opinion. >> let me ask this, the fact that the transponders were turned off, i mean, you have flown the 777. is that something that a person could just accidentally do, some doofs in the cockpit hitting the button, or is that something that requires a very specific, targeted and intensional action on the part of some...

If it's underwater, beacons attached to the voice recorders are still transmitting acoustic pulses or "pings." however -- >> at the end of 30 days, the batteries will be at the end of their design life. >> another form of guidance is acars. >> it's a common piece of communication equipments on all planes. it's that system that sends down a lot of information about how the engines are performing and how other systems are disablged. >> periodic pings are picked up allowing triangulation of positions in an area of

Their financial situation. all of these can build to the clues that are already out there. >> would you look at the cockpit? >> yes, i would. if you look -- to be an investigator, you have an open mind and i would look at the cockpit because right now with the facts we have, which have been inaccurate. you can probably rule out terrorism, hijacking for the most part. the probabilities right now are the cockpit, someone was in control of that aircraft, someone turned it, nobody communicated, someone turned off a transponder, turned off acars. they had ample time, even during an emergency if you...

The critical moments before the plane went down. saturday, march 8th, 12:41 a.m. local time, flight 370 takes off heading for beijing. the boeing 777 is carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew on board. at 1:07 a.m., acars sends its final transmission. it measures thousands of pieces of information about the plane and pilots' performance and sends it via satellite. we now know the plane remained on course for beijing, contradicting earlier reports that the pilots changed the flight path before sending their final transmission. a transcript reveals there's nothing out of the ordinary in their commu...