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Night" is what he said, no sign of trouble. two minutes later, the location transponder goes down. at some point, another communication system stops working, too. and that hard bank to the left sends the jet back over malaysia, up the straits of malacca and apparently turning into the indian ocean. the shutdown of the systems, all those turns tell investigators someone was at the controls who wanted to disappear. but even that is not a complete timeline. an example a critical piece of information on when a communication system, acars, shut down. was it before the last radio call? >> yes, it wa...

When the journal broke the story that this plane was still in the air. we're thankful that that was still going because that really is the evidence that it was still flying. >> well, what kind of date is 8:11. every hour or so i would think there would be data at 6:11, 7:11 and 5:11. handshake. plane is in the air or provide any sort of information? >> it says nothing but the plane is still in the air and that it's flying and they are able to triangulate and get through analysis of the signal. but it sends o. proximately where it is and determined that it is in the air it does have altitude at...

>> i don't think it would have, richard. i think that unless you actually made the turn -- if you entered it, i don't think so. i think if you made the turn, obviously, then yes. >> so in that last communication, there was no turn had been made yet, correct? >> reporter: that's what the information we're getting that yes, there had not been a turn as yet. a lot of this has to do with the acars and what information they got and how it's being interpreted. but that seems to be the way it's going now. >> so -- because the last acars did not -- >> 1:07. last acars is at 1:07. the good night is at ...

The airplane for four years and now retired said he's never been down there. >> is that right? >> because there's no real need for us to be down there. there's one circumstance that i would go down there and that's simply after an incident there's a diagram on where to pull a particular circuit breaker like what's being pointed out here. >> if there was a fire on board or smoke, is that part of the procedure to turn circuit breakers off? turn off the in flight system, to turn off the acars? >> it wouldn't be to go down those steps to do it. it would be something that's done in the cockpit. we ...

That data? >> i think all of the data that is possible has been squeezed out. >> okay. >> because as soon as the acars were turned off, the data part. the box, itself, wasn't turned off. that's how we got the ping, six hours of pings. the electronic box was still active. it was just the data downburst. once we lost that, we lost the transponder. the airplane went out of radar coverage and we don't have eyes in sky, the satellite data to track this airplane. now it's anyone's guess and we will not get any more data. if the airplane is found and we have a cockpit voice recorder and flight data r...