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Saying eventually week able to get cooperation from all the different countries for the radar data. but he wouldn't say how many turns the aircraft had made. or if any altitude changes. the question there about whether or not the families of the first officer and the captain who have so far not been able to hear that voice data, been able to hear the conversation for the cockpit between the air traffic controllers which would help identify who was giving the last signoff there "good night, malaysia 370." again saying investigation and that's why the families haven't been able to hear it yet. t...

The 24th into the south indian ocean, then that would have been the day that the ping started. and we are now 30 days from that coming up at 1:30 today. >> let's get more from cnn's nic robertson. he's live in kuala lumpur, malaysia right now. nic, anything stand out to you regarding this news conference, and what else are you learning today? >> yeah, we have two questions from the news conference from cnn's staff and really not particularly forthcoming answers from hasan mudmean. asking him if there were altitude changes, really key and important information that a lot of people are asking fo...

Look, there's various reports about altitude changes, some down to 12,000 feet, maybe lower, to do with a decompression event. the reality is this, for the plane to have gone from the straits of malacca, down to the southern indian ocean, where we understand that it is, it would have had to have climbed back up to 35,000 feet. it's cruising altitude, approximately 30 to 35 thousand feet. otherwise, it would not be able to, with the fuel on board, it would not have been able to reach so far south. it would in fact only reach an area about half of that distance on the midwest coast of western au...

>> joining us now, tim and bob, a former pilot and long time aviation correspondent. pleasure to see you both. thanks for joining us. bob, let's start with you u. what has people so excited about the partial hand shake is that it very well could be the last transmission of point of contact. >> it could be. it's interesting when you look at pings, what we've been told so far you have them every hour regularly reporting in as it tries to make a hand shake with the satellite high over the indian ocean. what's intriguing when this airplane took off, there were three pings and more rapid succession...

They have every right to look into it. >> they must. >> jeffrey thomas, you've spoken to an expert about what would have had to happen for this plane to take this course. what did they tell you? >> look, there's two elements to this. first of all, there's the course change that has to be human input. it can't be anything else but human input. reprogramming the flight management computer, it has to be done manually. the other thing we -- has been told is there is altitude changes. the detail of that varies a little bit. but some have that altitude down to 12,000 feed because of a possible decom...