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Roughly 250 miles from where the plane turned around, picked up a roaming signal from hamid's cell phone, suggesting his was the only phone turned on after the flight's transponder turned off. one u.s. official told cnn, "he could have tried to do something with the phone. we don't know." >> you know, the interesting thing about that is that no other phones connected to it. it was specifically his cell phone. >> reporter: while u.s. and malaysian officials caution there's no evidence the first officer tried to make a call with the phone, on sunday, malaysia's transport minister did not deny th...

Transponders turned off. so if there are errors made at that point in time, i think the errors are pretty understandable. >> and what's your reaction to the latest back and forth of the information from the malaysians? >> well, they are under a lot of pressure. they are entirely new territory. they have a police investigation underway and various other agencies investigating. the normal standard practice in all sorts of these investigations would be to quietly consider matters until you reached a conclusion and verified everything. that's not the sort of atmosphere that you can really operate ...

Which may indicate some type of catastrophic failure, we don't know it would have been intentionally turned off. there would be no reason to do that. that's surprising. when we have cell phones where hundreds of millions of people can be tracked in the another, where we need to figure out where somebody was, we can do that, we can't follow a 777 around the world is unimaginable to me. the pain and agony these families are facing should have been avoided. >> keith, to his point, this is something that i've come back to. if i'm up to no good, acting with sinister motivation aboard that flight, w...

Words exchanged and to this moment they refuse to release the transcript of what was actually said. so we can't know that or anything else. really frustrating. >> one final thing. boeing is complaining off the record and to our sources, that through their sources, that they were not informed for three hours after the plane went missing. that is not the protocol when a plane goes missing. on march 8th they should have been notified right away. boeing. >> jason, from "the wall street journal." thank you. officials with asiana airlines say there were critical safety problems with another boeing...

Comparing passports to the interpol database, the capability for this plane to transmit its position of altitude, that's pretty simple. it can be done with what is already on the airplane. just modified so that it cannot be disabled. >> turned off. that's an issue that's come up in a number of conversations. i've been told that the reason pilots are able to turn the transponder off is because if they have an issue like a short circuit, they need to have the ability to turn things off. so how do you make it unturn offable but still be safe for the pilot and the crew? >> you're right. since the ...