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Green lights indicate the main landing gears are down. but the nose gear indicator remains dark. >> the nose gear showed that it wasn't either down or up. it didn't say what position it was actually in. so they broke the approach and advised air traffic control that they needed some time to sort through a technical problem. >> unaware of what's going on in the cockpit, flight attendant beverly raposa feels the plane turn away from the airport. >> i wasn't concerned, because i mean, things like that happened. and if there was a problem, we had a phone by each of the flight attendant seats. if t...

Area making a detailed map of the ocean floor to spot the plane but nothing but false alarms until perhaps today. so how to get to reunion island? the debris traveled around this circle in the indian ocean gyre. those currents spin counterclockwise and that's how it would get to reunion island near mad gasagascar. justin green is here to show us how this happened. i want to pull up a picture of an airplane a boeing 777 to talk about this piece of debris the piece of debris we have seen on the plane, explain what they think it is. a flaperon. >> this changes the camper of the wing to increase t...

But they're pretty reliable. of course, if it landed on land, then you wouldn't expect the transmitters to go offer. >> next question to mary, this is from rick rice. it's been mentioned the plane dove to 6,000 feet and the co-pilot's cell phone might have been on. don't you think it strange that the plane turn went from 30,000 feet to 6,000 feet with 239 people and none of the passengers picked up or made a cell phone call? this is something we've talked about several times here. talk about that. >> not only do i find it strange, i find it impossible, because the distance in which it would ha...

Perhaps. did the plane turn toward the indian ocean? when the white house said today that we're sending a fleet there, everybody said oh my god, the plane turned, we're looking at the indian ocean. you do what any good investigation would do. you follow the lead. we have the plane going west. we have the plane east. everything is still on the table. the tragedy is we have to find out what happened to that 777. boeing needs to know that. people who get on one this morning or tomorrow has to know that there's nothing systemic on that plane that would affect the rest of the fleet. >> michael gold...

The third party communicates then every 15 minutes to air traffic, any country. that plane is tracked along precise routes over the ocean and supposed to report every 15 minutes. that's the primary communication. secondary systems, and the 777 has so much redundancy, it's hard to believe it would lose it all at once. secondary communication is a constant feed of data back to airline operations on every aspect of engine performance and how that plane is performing. so there's, you know, and the transponder then is the last layer of protection. it's a safety device that, in fact, the pilots have...