this crew, they repeated back altitudes, they previously repeated back a frequency. and here at 1:19, the last communication, we are into the accident sequence. two minutes later the transponder went off. at that point in time, he decides to change his pattern of communication. at precisely the moment of a handoff, which is the point, if you ever wanted to become invisible, that s when you re going to do it. i think the fact that he did not repeat the frequency is reflective of the stress of the moment, that this plan, this change was already in progress. can i ask you guys something? we re at 12:50.09. it these malaysian 370 maintaining level. then air traffic control contacts them. he says he basically
which is spot-on to how exactly they do it. then you come further on to the end of the transcript. and air traffic control says, malaysian i say malaysia 370, contact ho chi minh, good night. now, i would say something like malaysian 370 to ho chi minh at 120.9, good night. but instead he says, good light, malaysian 370. in other words, a minor inaccuracy, but everybody is pinning a lot on this, because it s not do you pin anything on it? i pin nothing on it at all. i do actually. why is that? first of all, richard likes to look at facts separately. you have to look at facts in context. if you look at the practice of this crew, they repeated back altitudes, they previously