Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140308:12:34:00
Investigators are going to have to wait until the wreckage is found and the cockpit voice recorder and data recorder is found. >> at this point, it took off at 12:30 in the morning from kuala lumpur. a couple hours into the flight, you have to be at a cruising altitude. is the plane on auto pilot, typically, at this point? >> absolutely, alex. the crew would have leveled off and gone through their cruise performance routine. the airplane would be on auto pilot. they would be monitoring systems. they are checking charts. they are not in radar coverage all the time. they have to make mandatory r...