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Mechanic john goleo. we're know not showing our viewers any secret information. this is all information that somebody who is very interested in this can find out online and elsewhere. i just don't want to give people the idea we're showing something we should not be showing. jim, this compartment where the computer maintenance system is known as acars, walk us through this, show us what it looks like. every plane is different, but how would someone go about disabling the system? >> reporter: i like you thought it was much more difficult to get here and that once you're here it would be much mo...

Minutes ahead of time. >> that was my next question. because it's one thing for who knows what happened in the cockpit. you are telling me someone on the ground would have had to see that change as well. that's the way the system is designed. a message was received on the ground. acars is about the only way they would have gotten there. they would have received it and they should have known 12 minutes ahead of time that plane. let's focus on part of what you showed us and the fact that we know about these deleted files on the pilot@home simulator. the fbi is searching the simulator's hard driv...

Let's check in with don lemon. he's hosting a cnn special report, the mystery of flight 370 at the top of the hour. huge response, don. cnn has become sort of the global water cooler when it comes to this story. what are you hearing tonight? >> what a mystery it is. we're hearing a lot. last night we were getting maybe 40 tweets per second if not more of people asking questions. questions like this, bill. this one is from amy. amy says, do the sightings of a low-flying jet on the maldives mesh with the timing and location of the last ping on acars? we'll answer that at the top of the hour. her...

And that's very important. >> true. and even though i might be a little more intimate with the systems on the airplane, this is not an intimate part of my knowledge. >> as a pilot -- >> this is not a place that i view. a friend of mine after being on 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 the...

Controllers, reportedly from the co-pilot, "all right, good night" is what he said, no sign of trouble. two minutes later, the location transponder goes down. at another point the communication system stops working, too. 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 xanch a critical piece of information on when a communication system, acars, shut d...