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Radar screen this transponder we're flight 370 and at this altitude. can you turn it off? >> yes, you can. here's how you do it. just three clicks to the left and it's off. but you would never do that, mitchell. >> we would never do that. never in flight. >> it would be like driving the wrong way down a highway and that's how a no go this sort of maneuver is, but it can be turned off. let me show you something else this transponder can do. put it back in the normal position. if i was hijacked, a way to use the transponder to send a code. i will not do the code, but a code you can enter and imm...

Have a sick passenger. specially useful when we are out of the hf range. >> you also mentioned the engines transmitted data independent of what the pilot is doing. >> just to say what their p parameters are at the time. >> the important thing to remember, shutting those systems off, the radio and the acard system off, that is not easily done, it is not an on/off system. >> if you are going to shut down, we call this box, the fmc, you have to have an intimate knowledge of the architecture of this system. it is not an on/off switch. you have to go in there. it is many key strokes to delete the f...

Understandable. hopefully we'll do it again at 10:00 a.m. eastern time. i hope so. the mystery deepens into what happened to malaysian flight 370. data reporting system and transponder were turned off separately and reuters citing unnamed sources and military radar new evidence that someone deliberately and secretly rerouted that plane towards the indian ocean and flew for hours after the last contact. so, who was that someone? was it the pilot, co-pilot or someone else? pamela brown is investigating who these men are. pamela? >> well, good morning to you, carol. fascinating look a that flig...

Minutes agro from kuala lumpur. of course it's a simulation. this was the point of last communication with the aircraft. in other words we're just a few miles away from that particular point in the flight. we are on automatic pilot. that's why we're not touching anything here. we're at 287 knots and 35,000 feet. again, exactly how everything was that night. and as you see, it is night. the night sky as we fly other the south china sea. let's point out the transponder. that's down here. it looked rather innocuous but it's vitally important. can you turn it off? yes, you can. how is it done? lik...

We are now on our way to beijing, as was the original flight plan. so, everything is set up in that particular way. one of the things we should talk about, carol, is the redundancy factor something the pilot here had mentioned. this aircraft, the 777 200 designed to go long distances and be out in the middle of no where. multiple backup systems and some suggested maybe they lost power and electricity to all of this. there are backups to that, right? >> there are a lot of backups. the electrical system, just that one system has six separate backup systems. the hydraulics is backed up eight time...