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Pilots, all right, good night, any interpretation you talked o with to the experts all day? >> well, the news that came out there were not any chinese independent reporters from that briefing. but what they say consistently is that it was very routine, the conversation between the air traffic controllers in the crew, in effect, we're handing you off. the crew responded and good night. and i think the key in the last couple of days is we have at least three data streams. we have the radar, the tra transponder, and then we have this kind of maintenance data which should help us locate the approx...

Cutting off essential data like altitude, heading and speed. let's check in with jim clancey from kuala laum pu r? >> very heated press conference today in kuala lumpur. we watched the malaysian officials hedge their bets. they said, yes, they tracked this when it had the trans poppeder out there into the south china sea and, yes, they had another object from the same point at the same time that tra transponder went off and going out about 200 miles northwest of panang which would put it in an almost totally opposite direction but, you know, in order to sort it out they say they can't be sure ...

That took out the radios and the tra transponder, mind you, and a transponder is what allows ground control to track an airplane. you would have thought that would be a remote possibility as well. but now it is daylight there in the south pacific. southeast asia, and they know what the intended flight path was. they're not going to be waiting too long to go along that intended flight path. and if you had had an airplane and people in life rafts, you would think that they would have been seen pretty quickly. >> and yet here we are more than eight hours after the flight first went missing. and t...

Pilots, all right, good night, any interpretation you talked o with to the experts all day? >> well, the news that came out there were not any chinese independent reporters from that briefing. but what they say consistently is that it was very routine, the conversation between the air traffic controllers in the crew, in effect, we're handing you off. the crew responded and good night. and i think the key in the last couple of days is we have at least three data streams. we have the radar, the tra transponder, and then we have this kind of maintenance data which should help us locate the approx...