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And now it no longer is identifiable aircraft. it's a small blip on somebody's radar screen, if they are paying attention to that again, we are talking in the middle of the night. is he probably beyond radar distance by now. i is an hour out. so they don't really have radar that goes that far. so he right now is nothing but a blip that may be appearing on somebody's screen. he not only turns off the transponder, he turns off another system on board the aircraft called the akar system. that is a system continually feeding information to the air carrier's home base, giving it an update on how th...

Plane is when somebody turned off the transponder on the aircraft. >> what is the transponder. explain what that is. >> the transponder is on basically every commercial aircraft and it provides information to air traffic control about who that aircraft is, where they are flying. what their altitude is and what their speed is. >> is it a recording or is it like a fax thing or an internet thing? >> no. it's a live, emitting device that is broadcasting the profile of this aircraft. >> almost like radar. >> yeah. >> and everybody can can receipt it. so somebody turns that off. that can't go off ac...

And now it no longer is identifiable aircraft. it's a small blip on somebody's radar screen, if they are paying attention to that again, we are talking in the middle of the night. is he probably beyond radar distance by now. i is an hour out. so they don't really have radar that goes that far. so he right now is nothing but a blip that may be appearing on somebody's screen. he not only turns off the transponder, he turns off another system on board the aircraft called the akar system. that is a system continually feeding information to the air carrier's home base, giving it an update on how th...