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The position and altitude of the aircraft is continuously reported, and it cannot be, that capability cannot be disabled. >> and that is, i'm glad you brought up that topic, because it is another question that i am getting frequently over twitter which is what can airlines do to prevent a giant airliner from disappearing under such mysterious circumstances. keep the data stream flowing and what measures could they take to keep it from happening down the line. this is a question that came from ziyadmatti. >> well, the capability is that you have utilized it already on the airplane and to make a...

Try to get a visual. take a look at what we are going to see over the next 48 hours or so with this. here we go. we have a little more cloud cover that is in the area now. this is the future radar and satellite and that white indicates cloud cover. the green indicates precipitation. and as we move forward over the next 24 hours this front gets mighty close to it, about 24 hours from now. so the winds will increase, which makes it much more difficult for the planes. it also makes the planes become even choppier than they generally are and we start to get the visibility really declining there. t...

Right. as soon as there is a fire on board, as a pilot you want to get that aircraft back safely on the ground as soon as possible. >> is there some protocol pilot takes over the flying and the co-pilot -- he had communication after the acars was either shut down deliberately or from some fire or something, i mean, he certainly was still commune case. there was some time of communication. isn't there protocol in the cockpit for that? >> there is. the nonflying pilot or the pilot not at the controls generally has the ability to communicate or also to switch frequencies and to talk to the back a...

Decompression and loss of structural integrity of the airplane. now, we don't know at all if this had that equipment or if indeed this plane was inspected. what are the possibilities of that happening? they have a problem, they start to turn back, and they can't make it? >> well, the only thing i have with that is, i believe most airplanes have that big round antenna on top of the fuselage. that doesn't then explain the transponder turning off, the acars stopping transmitting signals. if there's a rapid decompression, we would hear a horn, we would get a warning in the cockpit immediately, we ...

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 shut down would later be called into question. that same day, malaysia's government revealed the captain's personal flight sim...