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At this point in the investigation, there is no evidence one way or the other. >> but there would be piles of evidence if acars hadn't stopped transmitting. >> you would know the air-condition of the engines, the route it was taking, tatthe altitudes it was taking. we would know exactly the state of that aircraft. >> just the kind of information someone taking over a plane wouldn't want anyone to know. >> if you were doing something nefarious, then switching off acars would be a crucial part of making the plane go dark. >> 17 minutes after the plane went dark, 19 minutes after the last words f...

Stowed away and once you're in here, it's a pandora's box. these are the circuit breakers for the radios, over here, and there's also, interestingly, some -- there are some other devices and oxygen bottles in the bay, which also people have talked about. >> the acars disabled after the "good night" was given? >> before. well, we don't really know. at 1:07 is the last official acars transmission. the next one should have been about half an hour later. it never happened. so they believe somewhere after 1:07 it was disabled. >> so, john, is there any reason why a pilot or someone from the flight ...

Well, according to an automatic message sent from the aircraft's communication system, called acars. richard quest is an aviation correspondent for cnn. >> think of acars as a giant smartphone, that will send out huge amounts of information via satellite or by radio transmission. >> then at 1:19 a.m., a standard handoff with air traffic control, as the plane leaves malaysian air space, and enters vietnamese air space. >> malaysian 370, contact hoe chi minute 120 decimal 9 good night. >> the controller here, attempting to speech to ho chi minh, and he says good night, 370. something i would do....

370 vanishes into thin air. there's been silence from the cockpit and by 1:37 a.m., a second flight communication system, acars, isn't working either. >> acars was either switched off or it failed. we don't know which. because whatever did happen, this is the crucial moment. we pretty much know that all the comes are disabled, switched off, broken, blown up. >> as an investigator looking at this, what would the determination be, at least at this point as the to what is happening? >> at this point, i've got two different paths. one is that that aircraft was taken over and that the systems were ...

The news that evan perez is reporting this preliminary assessment by u.s. intelligence agencies produced in the aftermath of the mh-370 disaster suggesting -- remember, this is a u.s. intelligence assessment, that it was likely someone in the cockpit deliberately caused the aircraft's movements before the plane disappeared. richard, you studied this. you're writing a book on this story. what do you make of this u.s. intelligence analysis? >> i'm absolutely not surprised because in the cold light of day, every single fact points to that assessment being correct. wolf, the transponder gets switc...