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France's investigators their first clues of what went wrong. on flight 370, the acars system has been disabled. >> to disable the acars system tharks is not easy. pilots who fly for 30 years are stumped on how they would disable the acar system. >> the evidence right now leads us to believe it was an intentional act. the question is, by who? we were there. your first roll, your first friend, we were there too. and swaddlers blanket-like softness, that you've loved since day one, is now available through size 5, for many more firsts to come. ♪ wishing you love, sleep & play. pampers.

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 someone in the cockpit? >> well, in ...

Changed the track of the airplane. the other one disabled a data link system known as acars but only the data stopped flowing. the acars system continued to talk to the satellite network. >> right. i've had some pilots say well, you know, a fire could have broken out and that could have disabled the transponders but if a fire broke out, it wouldn't be delivering signals the next eight hours, right? so we can rule out a fire on the plane? >> well, let's not rule anything out. let's do this. let's say that the likelihood of fire is low because when you look at statistically inflight fires in the...

Network, 4g, verizon, whatever it is. that's the way it works. we know it was switched off. and incidentally, i have spoken to many, many friends who fly on many of the airline carriers, and i said, guys, how do you switch the acars off in the cockpit and i got blank looks. they power on the aircraft when they get in and the acars automatically comes on. i said, how could you? they said maybe a circuit breaker, but didn't know the consequences of pulling the circuit breaker that. was fascinating. let's go with the assumption the acars was turned off. the inmarsat needs to still know it's alive...

Like to ask the malaysian military authorities what radar they're using in order to give thus altitude information, because the altitude information will be key to where we go next. otherwise, it is supposition. >> you're shaking your head in agreement, jeff wise. >> i heard from my sources too that primary radar is very inaccurate at determining altitude. and, you know, again, i think the point you raise is excellent, don, why are we hearing about this now? especially in the context of these conflicting reports about whether the acars is indicating a change in way point before 15 minutes or w...