the accident sequence. beginning at 1:07 with the acars reporting. at 1:18 you have the final communication, good night malai malaysia 370. and the captain we know was reported as communicating which means the co-pilot was flying. now we have a co-pilot s cell phone handshake with the cell phone tower, a cell phone that should have been off. when you look at it in that context, i think it leads you to at least consider that the co-pilot or someone with his cell phone was reaching out. there are a lot of unanswered questions. 238 other people on board. someone else s cell phone surely made the same contact. i think it is very significant. we were here until 1:00 a.m. on sunday in to monday morning. they said they were scaling
hour, french provided satellite, nothing confirmed yet, satellite indications of possible debris. rick, in light of your experience on airplane recovery and your own book finding malia and significance of the satellite data, where would you place the progress of the search now? we don t have you there, sorry. we don t have you, rick. why don t i make that to kip darby, you re a pilot yourself, the new information, how much does it help us with assets here? i agree there s nothing to indicate the pilots. from a technical point of view, flight management does allow you put in a new route called an alternate route that wouldn t show up on acars reporting. just because it gives an indication of the way point, one after that, would give us a map
good afternoon, jim. i initially had a theory myself that something happened that was immediate required immediate attenti attention. the whole concept of acars reporting information contrary to that sort of dashed that theory. we re back to the point where the pilots easily could have been dealing with an internal problem or had a gun to their head. they can t really say. but the fact that it would be premeditated would take away all those other scenarios. so acars is doing its normal job, they have normal communication, they have normal acars reporting, and then a line is drawn and things change drastically. we have to look at what things could cause the pilot, for instance, to turn back. and a pilot would turn back if he his plane is in trouble. and that s why he wouldn t descend and land. there are other issues. every theory as holes in it. we don t have enough information to make a complete picture. but the fact that akors and prepamming of the flight management system didn