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The issue is getting the location back to a ground station which is the return satellite link. and that, apparently, is what was disabled or malfunctioned early in the flight. >> all right. let me ask you a quick question of keith keith this is a real whodunit. do you wish you were back at the ntsb to look at this one? >> you know, it is an interesting investigation. and, i can sympathize with what my court parts are doing right now. and even some of the malaysians. they have got a really interesting investigation in front of them. but they are not, greta, trust me, they are not sitting around...

The first people o to be saying, why didn't they wait until they confirmed it? what were they thinking about? we have to accept that the investigators have to work at a much higher level of integrity, credibility and confidence before they determine to send ships and planes, one way or the other. >> i want to bring in leo romaine thank you for joining us. this timeline that richard quest was talking about, does that make sense to you? >> yes, it does. it takes a while before satellite image data is physically collected and then transferred to the ground station, downloaded to various computers...

Research it and send more satellite imagery to see if there is anything there if the storms have not sunk whatever was floating. >> all right, tell us about the process of downloading the images. apparently it takes time and why the delay? >> well, it takes -- first of all, it comes off satellite. then it bounces from another satellite to the ground station, then it is processed and sent to the australians who look at it by hand manually. and then it goes up the food chain until finally somebody decides it is worth it, something to look at. and the politicians decide if they will have a press ...

The issue is getting the location back to a ground station which is the return satellite link. and that, apparently, is what was disabled or malfunctioned early in the flight. >> all right. let me ask you a quick question of keith keith this is a real whodunit. do you wish you were back at the ntsb to look at this one? >> you know, it is an interesting investigation. and, i can sympathize with what my court parts are doing right now. and even some of the malaysians. they have got a really interesting investigation in front of them. but they are not, greta, trust me, they are not sitting around...

Originating? we don't have any real answers with all of this, but we have a lot of ideas that are worth talking about here because it is such a mystery. every plane that's in the sky is emanating a tremendous amount of information about itself. largely through the acars system. most of the time that's going out through vhf radio when it's over land it goes through a radio tower. if it moves out over the water, if it's further out where it can't quite reach those land stations, then this plane will connect through a satellite and that satellite in turn will send that signal down to a ground sta...