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The investigators and the ceo of malaysia airlines have said quite clearly the information from the aircraft stopped at 1:27. we've had nothing from it since. those engines had no mechanism transmitting information. i'm with the captain on this. we can go down any road on this. we can say, can you switch off the a card system? yes. then you've still got the radar track. there comes a point where seasoned investigators say yeah that's probable, possible, but unlikely. >> that's where the problem comes in especially talking about this getting technical systems on board and what technology is inv...

Information from how it's performing. in this case, that information is transmitted from the aircraft by the a card system to malaysia airlines and rolls royce. the reason is both big data, rolls royce wants to get as much as they can about it and small data, when is the engine going to need maintenance. >> is it possible engines could send signals back even if there had been an accident, the plane was in the water broken into pieces? >> no. for the simple reason, the electric -- the a card transmitting system would have failed. thousand, if the transmitting system is still working -- but it's...

Can't wear his ring on the mine site. he said i'm going to leave my wedding ring here. i'm going to leave my wedding ring and watch. should anything happen to me, i want the ring to go to the first son that's married and the watch to the second. i said something like don't be stupid. just come back and i'll give it back to you. you can give it to them. i've got it here. i'm praying i can give that back to him. i can hold onto it. there's no finality to it. we're not getting any information. whether they know anything and they're not telling us at this stage -- it's just blank. just blank waiti...

Is that understandable given the real vacuum of information we have here? >> i think so, jon. and i think also, you know, when a spectacular event happens, i think it's human nature to try and find some sort of cause that explains something mysterious. and we've seen this in other airline crashes, tw800, a lot of eyewitnesses said they saw the plane being taken down by service-to-air missiles when it crashed in 1996. peter sal jer, who was jfk's press secretary took it a step further and said a u.s. navy warship had brought down twa800. even somebody with his kind of distinctive official histo...

Quite like this malaysian airlines mystery? probably never. you might think you have in a hollywood movie. now days, planes don't just vanish. >> that makes the story so intriguing. with satellite, gps, radars, computers on the craft, you think there would be something to follow up on. there's just no clue or so few clues. we have jeff wise with us, science author. you wrote a column and said this is unlike anything we have ever known before. unlike anything we've known before. why? >> just the sheer absence of information. planes go missing from time to time. not very often. from time to time...