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Theory. eventually you can come back to the same problem. if there had been a fire or if something had failed on the plane or anything like that, the acars would have noticed it and would have reported it. that's the problem with the mechanical theory. it would have had to have been instant. it would have had to have literally disabled -- a good question for the captain there, isn't that one of the issues, though, when we look at the mechanical problems that may have happened in the electronics bay or elsewhere on the aircraft, it would have had to have hit acars before acars could have report...

Dramatic happened that it -- that it literally cut it off. but here's the problem with that theory. a i can advance any theory forward and backwards, but eventually you can come back to the same problem. if there had been a fire or if something had failed on the plane or anything like that, the acars would have noticed it and would have reported it. that's the problem with the mechanical theory. it would have had to have been instant. it would have had to have literally disabled -- a good question for the captain there, isn't that one of the issues, though, when we look at the mechanical probl...

About that with you, could that have disrupted the entire system without sending a message back that there is trouble. >> there are several kind of failure scenarios that could do that. on this kind of plane, such a good plane. it tries to keep flying. it will shut down various things. there is a spooling effect. one thing shut down and another thing shut down. here, there are several catastrophic failure scenarios, a fire, a depression, a failure of electricity. that has lots of backups. there are several backup systems on that. it would have to be something fairly catastrophic. the communica...

Are to get into the electronics bay. so -- >> richard quest wants to jump in. he's finding what you're saying intriguing. >> quick question from quest. you can't disable it, but you can switch off the various vhf or s.a.t. com or data communication abilities, can't you, from one of the screens. >> let's talk to the expert, mitchell. you understand the question? >> yeah. so from what i understand -- you're asking if you can disable the vhf and hf communications? >> no, i'm asking by going -- my understanding is, by going into the acars screens, there are options within the screens where you can...

Have, you know -- learn some instruction and try to get some information based on that, looking for people, any names matching up on that air flight? recall 9/11 those that hijacked did go to a flight school in florida and that helped investigators kind of connect the dots. do you see that applying to this case? >> i do, but i also think they ought to look within malaysia airlines too. and by the way, on the flight simulator, the other thing you might be looking for is this captain had to have help. in the scenario that they're painting is really what they're going with, there were multiple pe...