just fine. so turning off the transponder, other than jeopardizing transmitting, doesn t do anything to jeopardize safety. why don t we know where it is if somebody hijacked that? i have no idea, that is a big jet, the 300 series weighs nearly 800,000 pounds, this 200 series jet is well over 600,000 pounds. how do you cover that up or hide it? i have no idea. andy, thank you. now, this sorry charles, now the jet was carrying 239 people and family members have said their cell phones continue to ring. how is that possible? john handsman is a professor of astronautics at m. i. t. good to see you, professor, how is that possible? well, the fact that the cell phone rang and they tried to call it doesn t necessarily mean
breaks tonight, the wall street journal just reporting moments ago three tracking devices on the missing malaysia airplane were shut off during that flight. this plane, the journal reports, flew, it is believed some five hours after the transponders were shut off. and the last recorded signals from the plane appear to have come over the water. on the phone with us again, andy pastor, one of the reporters who is working this story for the journal and has been covering aviation for a few decades. andy, thank you for joining us. i want to make clear we understand. is your information that they re accepting the theory that the jet turned around from the suspected flight path that the transponder and two other devices were shut off and that the plane appears to have flown for five hours after that.
breaks tonight, the wall street journal just reporting moments ago three tracking devices on the missing malaysia airplane were shut off during that flight. this plane, the journal reports, flew, it is believed some five hours after the transponders were shut off. and the last recorded signals from the plane appear to have come over the water. on the phone with us again, andy pastor, one of the reporters who is working this story for the journal and has been covering aviation for a few decades. andy, thank you for joining us. i want to make clear we understand. is your information that they re accepting the theory that the jet turned around from the suspected flight path that the transponder and two other devices were shut off and that the plane appears to have flown for five hours after that.
resurface for an alternate use? well, certainly, a part of the investigation, they re seeing where the plane landed. the data they have is not clear and quite complex to understand. so the investigators are looking at the possibility that the plane landed sometime within a five-hour span, not clear where or when. but it is certainly part of the investigation. andy, great reporting, thank you so much. very good, thank you. so we have been telling you about this new report and you heard that the communication systems were shut down manually. and now abc news is reporting they were shut down separately. branches were shut down, one at 1:07 a.m., the next at 1:20 a.m. so what does it tell us? and is it possible for this type of jet to go completely dark? charles barnett is a triple 7
somewhere although that s not the most likely scenario. jenna: what about a massive electronic failure? i think most aviation safety experts at this point would say that s highly, highly unlikely. there s too many coincidences, and it seems someone on this aircraft wanted to evade detection, and the plane kept flying for more than five hours after it disappeared from civil air traffic control radar. so that would be an extremely are unlikely scenario. you could never rule anything out completely, of course, until the record is found if it s found. but i would say at this point that s diminishing as a likely explanation. jenna: andy, we have so many more questions including what happened after the five hours that you ve been able to uncover. we hope to have you back. we look forward to your stories over the weekend and appreciate the time, andy. thank you. thanks very much. gregg: and, of course, this is been a great deal of media coverage, especially television networks. has it bee