very well versed in picking out damage caused by lithium batteries. it s just a matter of getting them the information they need. all of us have been following the story the last several weeks, have learned about things we didn t know about airlines. about the acars system, i mean, as a passenger now i kind of feel like passengers shouldn t be able to know more about the aircraft they re flying on, about what s in the cargo hold, what kind of acars system if i m flying on a foreign carrier, i would like to know, do they have the top of the line acars system. there are no rights for the passengers, are there? no, have you no rights to know what s in your plane, et cetera, you have a right to select your fare and ticket, to know the kind of plane. you only have a right to know if it s jet service or prop service. that s about it, and if they switch the plane, the only thing you get is a jet for a jet. you have no rights to know what s in the cargo hold, what s
function shortly after the last communication. it could have experienced an electrical problem. the component could have failed or it could have been switched off. we don t know. but what we do know is that the data link system known as acars was stopped from transmitting data, but the unit itself continued to talk to the satellites. that takes specialized knowledge and it takes some deliberate key strokes into the computer system to disable its ability to transmit data. that s a deliberate act by someone with knowledge. and so that is an important distinction and difference between all the other forms of the communication. right. and the acars system. but chris still with the position that it was a catastrophic moment? it seems that that would require a loft coincidences for that to be the case. this we have a lot of holes in every scenario that we ve looked at.
we had mentioned about the acars system, for example, it was nefariously turned off before the communication, that s not true, it was transmitted as normal at 1:07 just like it was supposed to do, and then the transponders being turned off. there s no physical record of the fact they were turned off, from the cockpit you can put them in stand by, but you can t turn them off. i feel after 200 miles out, the radar s pinging, it may not have received the signal that far out to say here i am, here s my information. does the conclusion by the british firm that has come up with this late de data analysis, it s their conclusion, to your satisfaction mean that that plane has gone down where they said it s gone down? yeah, i spoke with people at the company today, and talked to them how they got the information. this is the biggest mistake, how it was presented to the families, they need to have
which got the information from the plane, which is not communicating from anyone, but got interrogation from the plane s acars system, so they can pin point it s in the south indian ocean and know there s no chance it went to land anywhere. what would make it go south, what would make it make that turn? yeah, and that is just nobody can guess, really. but i do think that enough passed digging into the pilot and copilot, it s slow work and will need to go on with that, but i wonder if everyone was too quick to dismiss the idea of some other catastrophe happening in the plane, mechanical problem, or could be smoke, could be decompression, something like that. and also, you could say they are
situation that required a return back to origin? but now you couple that with the intentionally disabled of the transponders, that s not a normal act. no pilot would ever have a reason to turn off the transponder in-flight. anyone planning to disable the transponder and acars system would have to have an in-depth understanding of the ash craft. whoever altered the aircraft had to use a computer located between the pilot and co-pilot chairs in the cockpit! what are the chances that someone other than the pilot or co-pilot changed that course? reprogrammed the auto-350i lot? to reprogram the flight management system, they d have to come forward into the cockpit. and pilot and co-pilot see someone bursting through the door and fiddling with the flight management system? they d go nuts. we know that because if somebody grabbed the controls,