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And others have reported, i think you really have to be cautionary about our ability to find any debris field, let alone the black boxes. but let's take it back for a minute. how can we be in this situation with modern cell phones and everything else? the malaysian airline decided not to buy the data package. we talked about acars. malaysia opportunities had an opportunity to buy a data backage which would have been $10 a flight, like a pandora upgrade. they chose not to do it because of cost and potential drag on the aircraft. that's inexcusable. had we had that at the air france crash, that ...

Manually in flight? and a retrofitting of planes so that they do have more modern technology? >> well, i think there's going to be discussion about it. but there are -- there are reasons to have the transponder be able to be switched off. and, remember, we don't know that that transponder was switched off. we know that it ceased to function. was that an interruption of electrical power? was it a failure of the transponder? or was it deliberately turned off? we do not know that. now, the acars is a different matter because it continued to function. but it was not upstreaming data. that is more ...

Plane. the only thing he said that makes sense is perhaps one pilot locking the other out of the cockpit and then turning the plane around on some weird kind of suicide mission because nothing else seems to make sense. total electrical failure, you know, some kind of explosive decompression of plane, none of it fits all of the indications, all of the evidence here. >> well, we're not going to get to the bottom of this until we find the black boxes, this we find this aircraft. now, that is a possible scenario. however, we're talking about acars circuit breakers popping, we're talking about radi...

We'll hope for the best. >> the ocean up to 12,000 feet deep in some areas. this new discovery could debunk what many have been focussing on for days, and that could be pilot sabotage. a boeing 777 instructor joined shepard smith a few moments ago, his theory, possibly a fire on board. >> caller: this also explains why there was no commune yags or the acars dropping off. when there's a fire, these components drop off by the protection circuiting and perhaps by pilotis turning them off, because when you have a fire, any kind of electrical fire, you start turning off components. and perhaps the ...

Minutes 12 days tea go. 12:41 a.m. takes off from kuala lumpur headed for a 6-hour journey to beijing, china. acars reports in at 1:07 a.m. the plane veers to the west. 12 minutes later copilot, "all right, good night." 2:00 a.m. the transponder stops working. 12 minutes later at 1:37 the acars system does not work. at 2:15 is the last time on radar the malaysian military picked up that plane. at 8:11 a.m. the plane was last