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Airlines keeps its circuit breakers underneath the floor in an electronics bay for those particular systems. i said earlier that the access for those systems on air draft like the airbus a-320 and the 737 are actually directly in the cockpit. >> big question and big costs. somebody has to pay for them. jon, thanks so much for all your research. time to check in with the fox news desk. >> more on those signals in fact that are consistent with the signature of the jet's black boxes. i'll show you where the teams have roared hearing the signals. right there. 1,000 miles or so to the north and w...

Er. >> reporter: investigators have not revealed just how fast the plane was flying b you they say another indicator, the plane's altitude supports their theory that the aircraft was burning lots of fuel early on. they estimate the aircraft dipped as low as 12,500 feet. >> the airplane was not cruising at high altitude as it may have been assumed previously, but it was cruising at a much lower altitude and burning a lot more fuel. >> reporter: what does this tell us about what happened on board? some aviation analysts believe it's consistent with a massive colossal mechanical failure in the el...

It merely changes the area where the aircraft ended. >> you said it still makes you believe there was something mechanical. explain that. i believe that one possible scenario that makes sense for all the day that that we have found would be a fire in the electronics bay that would have caused the failure of the equipment. it would start with the failures of the acars and transponder. possibly vhf radios that would have precluded the pilots from communicating that would have caused smoke in the cockpit. this is the only area of the aircraft that is not monitored for fire alert, unlike the cargo...

Inside to please be transparent. he says he believes it's gotten better. but that's what's driving all of this. if you look at the local papers, all the false leads, all the reports, under all of this is this sense, a deep distrust of what the government is doing because of how the investigation was handled in the early days, that lack of transparency, aern anderson. >> throughout the hour we'll be putting some of the best minds in the business to work on this new information we have. now we're going to explore possible scenarios in the flight simulator and inside a virtual replica of the 777'...

Replica of the 777's electronics bay. first tonight michael schmidt of the "new york times," also former u.s. department of transportation inspector general mary schiavo who represents accident victims and their families and cnn aviation analyst. les abend. this information that nbc news has broken tonight that the change in direction was programmed into the computer at least 12 minutes before that final communication. how do you interpret it? again as in everything, there are multiple interpretations of this. >> i hate to use a common word we all seem to be using, but baffling. to me, 12 minu...