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Communications abilities? >> well, the sequencing of the loss of the communication devices, combined with the turns and then the communication from the flight crew itself is pretty much eliminates that. it doesn't add up that those things would have been happening and the plane would have been starting to get disabled and there would have been a calm communication from the flight crew. >> and yet robert, if the pilot was going to commit suicide, he doesn't have to take a seven-hour right to do it? >> no. no, i don't think anybody -- fact, if you listen to the discussions we've been having late...

Flight. and then the australian rcc will coordinate a recovery of evidence and any debris and go from there. of course, they will be looking for the black box and anything they can find to help piece together what happened. >> nicki, this p8 poseidon is such a high-tech plane, you talk about radar of significant size, educate us a bit, does that mean that radar hits could possibly be debris underneath the water, underneath the surface? are we talking about possible the 78-foot object that's on the surface, that satellite images found? >> reporter: my understanding is it's primarily on the surf...

Before or after one of the flight data transmitting systems was turned off. let's bring in don gorelli and captain john cox. good morning gentlemen. let's start with what we just learned. they believe the co-pilot was the last one to talk to air traffic controllers. nothing seemed to be amiss. where we stand right now, what strikes you? >> i think the routineness of the first officer says at that point everything was normal. we know shortly thereafter several of the communication devices were either disabled or failed. the transponder, the communication radios and a system known at acars. it's...

Minute. when american officials were told this, they said this doesn't make any sense. they said they couldn't believe that it fell that fast in such a short period of time. so what's happened is the american officials are looking at all this stuff and they can't make heads or tails of any of it. in some ways we're looking for clarity, but all this stuff raises more questions. >> so the pings from one of the communication devices indicate the plane essentially plummets 40,000 feet in the span of a minute. is that even possible? >> well, american officials didn't believe it when they were told ...

Last few minutes, all your sources are telling you the plane was manually -- had to have been manually turned and that perhaps based on what the succession of communications devices being turned off, that likely two people had to have somehow been involved. someone to remain in the cockpit, someone to go below and turn off one of the communication devices. >> certainly more than one person. it's very unclear who they are, where they were headed, what their purposes were. it's very unclear where the plane is currently. there's only one incontrovertible fact in all of this speculation. if aircra...