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That's because according to investigators, everything is on the table. in fact, officials now believe the plane might have been sending out electronic signals or pings four to five hours after its radar beacons stops transmitting. tonight we've just learned that u.s. officials believe the radar beacon or transponder was shut down separately from the system that continued sending out the empty pings 14 minutes apart. that could be extremely significant. american investigators telling abc news that the two modes of communication were quote systematically shut down, which makes for a very big hou...

Columbian jungle and they had top flight information right away. this is inexcusable out of malaysia. the united states needs to take a more forceful role and step out and take the lead. what would they do differently? >> they would put order in this investigation. what you have to do in the moment after an accident, you have to get your hands around the neck of the information. that means you have to bring it all in, the radar tracks, the atc communication, the various eyewitness reports, which are always unreliable or tend to be unreliable. you have to get your hands around it fast. of cou...

>> reporter: searchers took two years to search for that flight that went down in the atlantic killing 228 people. experts say there's another possibility as well, a deployable recorder, a box that would automatically eject from a plane when it's in distress and land separately on the ground or in the water. those already exist in some military planes. wolf? >> and that air france plane five years ago did transmit some data in realtime, right? >> it certainly did. basic maintenance data which gave includes about what they call the pitot tubes. that turned out to be the problem on that aircraft...

About 4700 have faced delays. the worst has been in philadelphia, newark, and la guardia. there have been problems in miami and atlanta. that's mostly as a consequence of the ripple effect. all in all, it's about a two-hour delay at most of the big airports. watch. >> my family is in california. i'm going to see them for thanksgiving. but my flight got delayed overnight. the plane from philadelphia is still late. so unfortunately i can't fly out until tomorrow morning at 10:00. i'll have to make due until then, i guess. >> reporter: that ripple effect means even airports without bad weather co...

Canceled. about 4700 have faced delays. the worst has been in philadelphia, newark, and la guardia. there have been problems in miami and atlanta. that's mostly as a consequence of the ripple effect. all in all, it's about a two-hour delay at most of the big airports. watch. >> my family is in california. i'm going to see them for thanksgiving. but my flight got delayed overnight. the plane from philadelphia is still late. so unfortunately i can't fly out until tomorrow morning at 10:00. i'll have to make due until then, i guess. >> reporter: that ripple effect means even airports without bad ...