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Switched off, and then you hear a voice say, "all right. good night," are you convinced that it is the pilot, given that we just talked to one pilot before the break who was saying usually there is a whole lot of other information identifiable information for the pilot before they say good night? is this -- how strange is this to you? >> it's strange. but richard's right. ordinarily you have to do the readback and you have to do the readback because, and it's part of air traffic control, because sometimes pilots get lost in the hertz. meaning they have the wrong frequency and switch over, ther...

We're dealing, and here, this is one of them, with conflicting pieces of information. it may all become ridiculously clear when somebody tells comes out tomorrow and says, well, no, he didn't say, all right, good night. that was a mistake. or something else happened. you know? for example, one person's just e-mailed me to point out the, "all right. good night," it should have been a full readback from the pilot, with the name of the aircraft, malaysia 3-7 d-0, acknowledging what he just heard and then saying, all right, good night. but these are minor details, and conflicting details in the ji...

Richard quest joins us now by phone from new york. so, richard, that the communication system was disabled and that, according to malaysian authorities, this voice was able to say, "all right. good night." you were telling us earlier that's a radio frequency. that's radio conversation, and that's why that information was able to be transmitted, but is it possible that that pilot, if that was the pilot's voice, didn't know that the communications system was disabled? >> well, when you say communications system, you're talking about a particular communication system. about the acars system. the ...

The -- the information may be lacking is about procedures and methods and means is being provided and is being assisted by an entire body of people out there who are helping us understand. >> thanks very much. we'll have richard back in the broadcast. just to be clear, we're making baby steps forward. this is a step forward. it doesn't eliminate any explanation, but it does give more evidence for the planner, even as the prime minister said being under control at that point by someone under duress or in control of the plane. thank you. we'll have you back. coming up, he's a best-selling auth...

About the data block and the fact that the information disappeared. we should have heard the malaysian controllers or vietnamese controllers say something on the radio. i haven't heard anything about that. >> bill savage? >> i agree with the other two gentlemen. it was exactly my thought during the break. but it's quite obvious that whoever was flying that airplane was an aviator and knew how to fly that aircraft. with all of the turns and climbs and decents, plus the interruption of the systems, i speculate that someone knew something about flying airplanes and particularly that airplane whet...