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Malaysia from 45,000. the other from 35,000. the crews are down to 12. in the direction of a known large accessible airport. the pilot was probably familiar. not assuming in the two-minute turn to reverse direction and descending and we don't have a lot of information on how fast. it shows the decompression and otherwise they are landing. he's not in a rush. he needs to get down by the time he is at the airport. he turns towards that. the thai radar reports and they said it's towards a town. right next to this town, it's an island. from their point of view, it's towards a town. there is a long...

Stop working? does that have to be turned off or is that something that can just malfunction? >> it's hard to see how the transponder would go off and then the airplane would still sort of fly the way it did. you can have an electrical failure, you can have a problem with the antenna, things like that. there are two transponders on the airplane. so you actually would have to fail both of them. so it looks like it's more likely an intentional thing. and then plus it appears if you can believe the malaysian radar reports, thought was coupled with this change in direction. and i can't find any re...

But we have to build our knowledge with whatever evidence we can get. so the physical evidence will be the strongest, but right now the radar data appears to be the only thing we have. >> does it make sense just from a mechanical standpoint that a transponder would be -- would stop working? does that have to be turned off or is that something that can just malfunction? >> it's hard to see how the transponder would go off and then the airplane would still sort of fly the way it did. you can have an electrical failure, you can have a problem with the antenna, things like that. there are two tran...