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Cnn has not been able to independently confirm that the transcript is genuine. this is what we are getting. joining me now, aviation and government correspondent and miles o'brien, pilot and cnn aviation analyst. i will kick it off with you. me what you have seen. does anything jump out as unusual? >> i haven't seen enough to make a at the same time. they got ahold of the acars transmission. that's the automatic e-mail component. it talks about it being a technical conversation. what you get are the tapes and routine handoffs. we are at flight level 350. they will say that and unless something...

Will say, so and so 170 flight level 230 roger or whatever else. or give the frequency that he's been asked to change to and once he says that frequency, then he can be acknowledged on the ground and make sure he has the right frequency if they're going to have to change. i agree that it's out of the protocol, but i'm not sure that it wasn't just somebody that was really casual. >> yeah, i mean this guy was suggesting that they do some sort of voice recognition. david soucie, what do you think, "all right, good night," is that how they talk to each other? >> well, jim's right. technically what...

It looked as though there had to be two people in that cockpit aware of what was going on. so if there was a change of course, it's not something you can really do surreptitiously, is it? >> no, it's not. it's something -- any change of course, altitude, flight level, as we refer to it, it has to be verified. so with that white line i showed you there, when we verify, i would say to the other pilot, left turn to a heading of whatever, verify, and he would say confirm. and that's when i would enter that. >> so that's normal procedure. it would have been possible that one person could have done ...

Problems? >> not at all. the last reported contact with the aircraft was the aircraft was flying at flight level 350 about 35,000 feet. and it's about two hours from kla. and there was no calls from the crew or no indication from the tower that the aircraft is having any kind of difficulty. >> what are the theories that you are working on as an airline as to what may have caused this plane to go out of contact? >> at the moment it is material for us to speculate right now. anyway, we're having a press conference at about 11:00 time. during that press conference you can ask questions. at this m...

>> i have seen a little bit of light precipitation over south and central china, reports of that. but that is well below the flight level. and skies were clear with light winds, the temperature, 26 degrees celsius, which is about 26 degrees, there is no bad weather that i can see for the flight path on the malaysian plane. the flight reached 32,000 feet which is expected if you're two and a half hours into the flight. so there is nothing that i can see on radar or on any other weather sources that you know would lead to a determination of weather being a problem, megyn. certainly, i'll keep an...