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>> trying to figure out how long and how far this plane flew before it stopped responding completely. that could be incredibly obviously hard to determine. we want to go to cnn's jim clancy who is in kuala lumpur, malaysia. investigators have vastly widened where they're looking. how is this determined, do you know? >> this was determined by a satellite that reaches out and handshakes, looks for that aircraft, tries to plot where it's going to be, one time every hour. now, the acar system that sends back data from the plane about, you know, it's bearing, its airspeed, its s altitude, all those...
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