Page 6 - Emergency Code News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Transmission to air traffic control. and at that point, the transponders went off and that suggests hijacking. >> that is a key point, and scott brenner, who is a former faa official, who was at the faa on 9/11, broke that news here. we questioned it that very night, mike, because they were saying look, the transponder tracks the plane and it doesn't match up. the ascertainable assertion doesn't line up. we don't know it for sure. what we do know is that a destination that was west and not on the plane's original journey was programmed in prior to when they signed off from air traffic control....

Transmission to air traffic control. and at that point, the transponders went off and that suggests hijacking. >> that is a key point, and scott brenner, who is a former faa official, who was at the faa on 9/11, broke that news here. we questioned it that very night, mike, because they were saying look, the transponder tracks the plane and it doesn't match up. the ascertainable assertion doesn't line up. we don't know it for sure. what we do know is that a destination that was west and not on the plane's original journey was programmed in prior to when they signed off from air traffic control....

There are o several ways, vhf radio, setting an emergency code in the transponder sending out an emergency signal. >> it seems like we keep going up. somebody sends one up and they shoot it down. this lithium ion battery is out there and now it's shot down. it's frustrating. >> it's been rather chaotic and in many cases incomplete. as i've said repeatedly, i would like to hear the air traffic control recordings, tapes, conversations between the a aircraft and the crew. was there a changeoff? some stress in their voices? all of these things we haven't heard and that's for starters. we haven't s...

Emergency code. you would be in communication with air traffic control. there wouldn't be silence. and i'm not at all comfortable with the signoff of the last transmission you did hear. i would want to hear the 20 minutes before that, of the whole conversation, and then apply that last voice to the ongoing air traffic control transmissions that have been going back and forth. as i stated yesterday, asians generally don't use that short clip vernacular of "all right, goodnight." the asians are very procedurally correct and they would have signed off with their airline call sign, and in addition...

Emphasis seems to be shifting based on the evidence towards some unauthorized criminal act. >> now, we did speak to an aviation expert earlier who suggested that maybe there was something wrong with the flight. if there is some kind of mechanical issue, could you program in those waypoints quickly enough to try to help you address that mechanical issue? >> you could, but there really wouldn't be any reason to, and there are multiple means with this very modern, sophisticated airplane, to make a distress call. they clearly were between air traffic control facilities, but they were in a position...