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A human being had to direct this plane. there were too many twists and turns to its flight path. >> basically, peter, you're saying it wasn't a mcal failure or anything like that? this was a deliberate act by someone or some people in that cockpit to take that plane down, whether it was pilot suicide, co-pilot suicide. somebody else wanted to take that plane down for whatever reason? >> i think that's the only conclusion you can come to at this point. there's a lot of discussion about a fire in the e & eba bay. the electronics bay. it doesn't explain the performance of the plane as to what hap...

Michael nutter. >> somewhere around after 9:00 p.m. this evening. that incident required a four-alarm response from the fire department. the fire department is in command in this scene. that resulted in 33 apparatus on the scene, 120 firefighters and other emergency management personnel responded. this went to a level three mass casualty incident because of the number of personnel. 243 individuals on this train, five of whom are amtrak employees. unfortunately, we can confirm at least five individuals deceased. this is acars including the engine turned over upside down are in various stages of...

>> if you were doing something nefarious and 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 from the cockpit, there was still no check-in with vietnam air traffic control. the call former chief pilot nik huslan has made thousands of times. >> you have to be like drunk for you to forget to check in after somebody tells you immediately to check in. every pilot would do that as soon as possible. anything after two or three minutes already abnormal. >> around 1:38 a.m., air traffic controllers try to...

>> there was no particular challenge there for a seasoned captain and that first officer to handle that flight without any problem. >> and at 1:07 a.m., all seems 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. >...

In the middle of the night on march 8th, at 1:21 a.m., malaysia airlines flight 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