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Is possible has been squeezed out. >> okay. >> because as soon as the acars were turned off, the data part. the box, itself, wasn't turned off. that's how we got the ping, six hours of pings. the electronic box was still active. it was just the data downburst. once we lost that, we lost the transponder. the airplane went out of radar coverage and we don't have eyes in sky, the satellite data to track this airplane. now it's anyone's guess and we will not get any more data. if the airplane is found and we have a cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder, it may shed light, but the cockpit...

Off position. that is real easy to turn off. the acars on this airplane you can never turn off that box itself because this box is continuously energized and why we have the ping after we lost the data. it's the data part that was disabled. and it takes a series of key strokes on an information system and a key pad to actually take the data system down. somebody would have to have a high level of knowledge of how to do that because that is not something that a lot of pilots would know, even under normal operations. >> steve rattner? >> so as a pilot, i agree with that, but even if you managed ...

Triangulate. how optimistic are you that this is a breakthrough? >> the data that they have, alex, is right now nondescript. there's two parts to the system. there's the data part, that is the information that comes from the airplane that the maintenance group down at malaysia airlines wants. that data part had been turned off. so the good stuff is gone. it doesn't have an identification, it doesn't give you air speeds, altitudes, any performance checks that the system is designed to provide. that you will system has said now is that this box is alive. it's -- it's up and running. and it says ...