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Position here, okay, that is where the inmarsat satellite is. it stays in that position all the time. the acars on the airplane uses this for communication, primarily when it's on the ground it uses vhs communication. when it gets over the ocean, the vhf communications drop and the acars selects the sat-come, which is the satellite. it acts like a mobile phone. when your mobile phone is at home, it automatically locks on to wi-fi. when you walk out, it locks on to the network. that's what this has done. in order for the satellite to make sure the acars is still there, every hour it'll say, hey...

Heard a garbled communication from that plane, but all of that was difficult to reconcile from the time the reports were that pilots put in this turn and were intending, based on input of data, were intending some kind of a turn and their last communication was 12 minutes, and that didn't jive with anything because if you're fighting for control of your aircraft, if you're fighting for your life, you're going to try to let somebody know. now if it wasn't preprogrammed, what you do not have, you do not have any malice afore thougerafo evil intent, you're likely a pilot involved in heroism rathe...

And what it was that they were practicing. so we get some idea of what they were thinking. >> as with any potentially criminal probe, an fbi forensics team in virginia will soon attempt to match any data recovered with the real lives of the pilot and co-pilot, e-mails, texts, known associates, policies, and personal histories. meantime, the search has remained fruitless, costing millions of dollars. as anguished loved ones wait, but without a working transponder or acars communication system and over a million square miles of ocean to search, there's no guarantee flight 370 will ever be found....

We badly need a system -- streaming system, live streaming what's going on in the plane. that can be done. >> we talked to analysts and experts about the cost, seemingly manageable cost. >> $1500 a month. bring that down per passengers it's cents. >> okay. certainly something to think. as we focus now if i could speak to the panel as well on just the investigation here, it seems that we've seen all the information investigators have. as you look at this, are there any other promising paths where before you find actual aircraft, presumably in the ocean, they can lean more information. are they ...

Doing at any time and it sends it to the ground. acars sent the last transmission at 1:07 a.m. it was expected to send another transmission at 1:37 a.m. but that never happened. malaysian officials said they don't know exactly when the acars systems went off in that 30-minute window. we did learn when it sent last communication there was nothing to indicate in the last communication pilots preprogrammed the turn to the west of that's one of today's key new developments. i want to bring back panel, mary schiavo, ntsb, kit darby, retired airline pilot, head of a consulting firm. tom fuentes, for...