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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...

Plot? >> well, first, uma, thanks for having me. i think the important thing why i continue to believe that it's a northern route and a terrorist is involved, because the tapes that were just released that james talked about did not indicate that there was a different person transmitting. in other words, it was the co-pilot who was making these transmissions from start, taxi, takeoff, climb, transfer, from departure control to en route control. and so that means in that 28 minutes they had on the takeoff, a takeoff before the acars was turned off, that same person was in control in the cockpit...

Fire came into the avionics compartment, it could possibly explain then the time line of the transponder shutting off, the acars shutting off, the pilots turning back. we're taught from day one, ave yat, navigate and then communicate. i know a lot of people are questioning, why didn't they get a mayday distress signal out in time. they may not have had time unfortunately, that's what's concerning me at this point, that more focus is not being put in that direction. >> what about the possibility of decompression, that's happened before. the faa issued the following a air directive a couple week...

>> differ between the acars system. >> it is nothing anything in the cockpit. not like a cctv camera in the cockpit that they tape over to avoid them being spotted. the greatest thing a hijacker would be worried about would be the satellite would somehow see what was going on. that's not the case with the acars at all. >> so far and maybe i'm cherry picking from the columns that i read from you, you are not casting aspersions on the pilots. >> in this case, it is swung to the technical. what i have been trying to do is pull it back all week and say we need to interrogate all of the technical p...

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 first handoff 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 report. we have the navigation change. >> what are you saying there? >> i'm saying at the time of the next handoff...