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Recorded are, all right, good night. as a pilot, does that sound odd or unusual? >> no, not at all. that's as per normal operations. nothing usual about that. both of these guys would have been in the cockpit at that time for sure. >> as far as the shutdown as you mentioned of the data reporting, right now it is inexplicable to a professional pilot. there are a number of different pieces of equipment that report. some of them are the radios. that would be the pilot. other pieces are mechanical, the engines. how they shut down, it is not easy. it would have been deliberate. they didn't all go a...

Question. >> the data recording system shut down and 14 minutes later, the transponder shut down. your at that point. take us through. >> the transponder is right here. it looks pretty small. it is vitally important. it has a switch. it is right here. to turn it off, it is three clicks to the left. >> could you bump it accidentally? what would happen if it suddenly goes off? >> chaos on the ground. alarms would be going off left, right, and center on the grown. they would be asking us what's going on, trying to determine what the problem is? they would be scrambling jets. this is a major, majo...