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Use an emergency frequency. talk to the airline. you'll talk to the neighboring region doing all that in a matter of minutes, right? >> yeah. we won't wait for long. >> reporter: according to this report released by malaysian authorities, vietnamese authorities called kuala lumpur after 17 minutes. but it took hours of back and forth, before kuala lumpur launched a search for the plane. >> what we had here was something that was really off people's radar screens, as far as the imagination. a little bit of ineptitude and a healthy dose of confusion. >> reporter: extraordinary circumstances in a...

That if it stops, that doesn't -- it may have gotten lost or the sound may have been blocked. but that normally it would just ping and ping and ping and ping and not stop. >> that is correct. that particular ping that comes from an emergency locater, transmitter or black box is a continuous ping. and it doesn't stop. unless if you go far away from the source. and there are times that most of us, we always monitor the emergency frequency as we fly along over water, occasionally we do hear some ping. and sometimes it's another aircraft testing their device or another -- maybe a small airplane be...

Catastrophic failure on the plane which caused an electrical disruption. >> then the 777 makes an unexpected left turn heading west, way off course. >> what we see is a quick turn, almost 180 degree turn back towards land. >> according to a source close to the investigation, military radar then shows the plane dropping and flying as low as 12,000 feet. >> the controller at the other end is expecting a call from that aircraft. >> but the call never comes. >> there was repeated attempts to reach the aircraft. not ohm on the 120.9 frequency, which is the frequency they were assigned, but also on ...

Bigger or heavier because that means it's going to cost you over the long run. so it's actually not the ideal frequency for under water. here's a little piece of irony. the p-3s and p-8s that are searching for this particular aircraft are outfitted with black boxes that float. >> huh. >> why not? why not have a -- you can have a redundant set of devices that stay on the surface and then you can broadcast on an emergency frequency and you could find a site much easier than trying to, you know, get sonar equipment underwater and hydrophones to listen for a ping. >> yeah. if we can, too, guys, ta...

Is expecting a call from that aircraft. >> but the call never comes. >> there was repeated attempts to reach the aircraft. not only on the 120.9 frequency which is the frequency they were assigned but also on an emergency frequency. >> there is no answer. >> they're going through their checklist for a missing aircraft. an aircraft that has apparently fallen off the radar screens and is not communicating. you know, what's going on? >> at 2:40 a.m., a worried air traffic control tower alerts malaysian airlines. they've lost contact with the plane. flight 370 has disappeared. by 6:30 a.m., the su...