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Minutes to an hour ago and following the highway in the sky. we're on this pink line right here you can see on the navigation system. the reason we're not touching the controls is just like 370, we're on automatic pilot. we're currently up at an altitude of 35,000 feet. so everything that we know about the plane at the time it disappeared, we are sort of re-creating and reliving here. let's talk about some vital equipment. a lot has been said about the transponder. where is it here? it is actually located right here, right beside me. relatively small and looks rather obscure but vitally import...

>> every flight we have what's called the pilot flying the pf and the pnf, the pilot flying and the pilot not flying. it is customary for the captain to be flighting left seat. if he was flying pf, he would be making sure that the plan is on track, flying, mentally engaged. first officer, pnf, pilot not flying, checking the weather, talking to air traffic control. >> remaining engaged. what's interesting is if there is not an input by somebody, a pilot, in this airplane, every ten minutes, the airplane sends off an alarm to make sure that, hey, you guys didn't fall asleep? there is an alarm. i...

There is a hijacking because the pilot could enter a code. it transmits. on the ground, that's recognized. that's what mitchell is talking about. one of the first things they would do is let's get somebody up on that plane. >> that may have happened. the malaysian government is not telling us. tell us that again. if the data reporting system shut down and also the transponder shut down, there would be many things happening on the ground. what would be happening? >> they would be aware on the ground and reacting how? >> they would be talking to the company. we are sending tol emmet tri back to ...

Approaching 1,000. here is our speed. the goal is to eventually get to 35,000 feet. that's the last known altitude we knew and very shortly, here, mitchell is going to put us into autopilot, because the plane was flying at auto-pilot when it was last referenced. this was everything as it was happening a it was happening that night as we knew it. let's point out something pretty important here. the transponder. it was apparently for some reason off. why did it go off? here it is, this little device, looked small, make look inobjecti inobjecting -- innocuant. they need to predict where that is g...

We are at an altitude of 35,000 feet. we are not touching the controls because we are on automatic pilot. it was a night sky then. everything replicating down to the roof. you will see that in pink what they were flying leaving from kuala lumpur to beijing and they never made it. they disappeared at a point right here. we are 71 miles away and resz than ten miles of arriving at that point in the flight. after that moment that communication was lot of after the line of all right, good night. that's where we are. let me show you something defiating from the roof. it seems clear that the plane ch...