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Find it on a timely -- in a timely manner? >> well, first of all, aircraft are normally tracked through acars and other equipment, but if this equipment is tampered with, switched off or damaged or electrical power is lost to it, then, indeed, that tracking will fail. so you know, it's difficult to come up with something that is fail-proof, that allows aircraft to be tracked. >> right. >> but let me put this to you. there is an elt, the electronic locator transmitter, which sits in the roof of the aircraft, the 777, near the tail, and that's supposed to start transmitting signals to satellite ...

Plane glide into the indian ocean. it happened before. >> so far in this entire incident there is a whole lot that's not making sense. until we get to the bottom of what caused this airplane not on to go down fit went down, but also to veer off course and say good-bye in the middle of what apparently was a diversion of its course. before when find all that out this won't make sense. bill: what about the lithium batteries on board? >> there is a theory there were lithium batteries in the cargo hold that was not pressurized that could have caused a fire. if they caused a fire large enough to tak...

Initially i thought somebody came into the cockpit because we heard it was an hour out before this happened. but if you look at the timing, it departed at midnight 41 and seven minutes after the hour, they had the last acars report. that acars report was sent with a position report. if the information is correct that that position was input in the computer that they stated was between the pilots, i'm assuming it was in the number three fms. that would have been a jump seater. the timing, there wouldn't have been enough time for somebody in the cockpit to take over and input it. so i'm fairly c...

Officials of this information that they actually went to the uk security authorities to share this data, hopefully in the hopes of being disseminated more widely more quickly to try to move the process along. >> do you have any sense based on what you have learned or based on"getting radar hits of

Athens in 2005. pilots forget to turn a pressurization switch from manual to auto. at 34,000 feet all 121 on board passed out and froze in their seats. so far we know the malaysian flight was flying for at least seven hours based on pings or signals emitted from the plane. he believes whatever took out the plane's transponder and communications systems, acars, was mechanical and could have also damaged the plane's electronic nerve center which among other things monitors the cabin's climate. >> that's where you have a decompression. it happens pretty quickly. in a minute or so. in the case of ...