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Detected this aircraft just as it made that turn had dropped to 12,000 feet. now, this is significant because it raises so many more questions as to why it dropped shortly after making that turn. what we know now just adds more information to our timeline. we know already malaysian authorities believe that at 1:07 when it made that last acars transmission identifying itself at mh370 it was still bound for beijing. let's not forget that. then when it made the turn after 1:19, it then dropped altitude. now, so many questions raised, don. >> yeah. absolutely. saima, you can bring that in for me, ...

Transponder and the acars actually zoned in a little bit. but the positive thing the black boxes were under the ocean for two years before they were discovered. and that means the gps which has a 30-day battery life would have run out. >> we had a smaller indication where it went down, that is a huge difference, two years later. >> exactly, as mike points out. >> and from facebook, dan writes, if flight 370 continues to go undiscovered, how much longer will they search? >> sal, i imagine they have to look for a long time. >> they have to look for a long time, this is a boeing airplane, america...

Jason bellini joins us. good evening, jason. >> good evening, greta. >> tell us about this report. it's akin to the payne stuart situation where everyone is encompass stated incapacitated and that plane went on four hours. >> some people are making the case being what happened on the plane is that the cockpit filled with smoke. the pilots only had time under this scenario to radio -- to make some changes, turn the plane and then were incapacitated are, passed out before they could radio people and let people know their plane was in distress. >> here is the problem though, when they had the con...

Detected by satellite hours after it appeared, nearly eight hours after takeoff and several hours after air traffic control lost sign of the aircraft. by still no answers as to where it was going or why. the search has expanded to a daunting area off malaysia's west coast, sunday, march 16th. authorities claim that the plane's communication system known as acars was disabled before the pilot's last words to traffic control. leading to questions why they didn't report this to control. that same day, malaysia's government reveals the captain's personal flight simulator is being examined. and by ...

Barbara says, isn't co-pilot's "all right, good night" consistent with his lax attitude towards regs such as having ladies in the cockpit? >> first off, i guess i'm the guest that's going to disagree with richard. i think this transcript is very significant, and i'm looking down only because i'm looking at the transcript. the bottom line here is, at the time of the firsthandoff when they took off from the tower to the kuala lumpur radar atc, the co-pilot repeated the frequency, 132.6. as you move down the line, we get into what i believe to be the accident sequence. at 1:07, acars did the last...