Page 2 - Ae Compartment News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Flight 370, the series about what happened or what could have happened to this jet ranged from the logical to the absolutely outlandish. whoever or whatever turned off flight 370's tracking system shortly after takeoff may be the key to solving this mystery. just how it tough is it to do that? joining me is cnn's aviation correspondent, richard west, joined by a 777 captain with 18,000 hours in the cockpit. captain, i wanted to ask you, i heard you on our morning show "new day," suggest there is this -- there is this access through the cabin to the belly, the guts of the plane you had actually...

Somebody could have actually gone into the e and e compartment. electronics compartment below the pilots and start turning things off. >> where is that? >> i don't know. i'm not really sure. >> give us a sense for non-pilots. you say it's below the cockpit. how do you get there? where is it. >> on some large transport aircraft there is actually a little hatch there that maintenance uses to get into this compartment and work with the black boxes. that's where all the black boxes are underneath inside this compartment. >> we were just talking offair about this and it seems like this may be -- th...

The e and e compartment, which is generally somewhere in the vicinity of the cockpit itself, that could disrupt a lot of things all at one time and electrical fires are pretty spooky. there are a few situations where they crash and once it starts it moves very rapidly. it could definitely take everything off the line. >> we had the former chief of staff of the federal aviation administration on the show yesterday and he said one possibility that hasn't really been pursued by investigators as much as he thought could be pursued is that the idea that the plane could be on land somewhere as oppos...