basically these pings match the air frame, the type of engines that was this flight, and there is no correlating transponder information. and as we know now, the transponder for some reason turned off, was turned off, stopped working. so they have a flight out over the indian ocean correlates to this exact type of airplane with no transponder. that s where they believe the flight has come to rest. piers? barbara, why are they so convinced it may have gone to the bottom of the ocean when many other people are theorizing from this information about the pings that it could potentially have been hijacked or stolen to order and landed somewhere. why would they believe it has actually crashed into the sea? reporter: well, i think there s a couple of questions here. one is, what caused the plane to disappear if you will? was it a deliberate act? was it sabotage? was it espionage?
information, the speed information, it tells us about vibration information. if there was a bomb or something that happened dramatically on board or a fire even would cause enough vibration that that data would have been sent back. there s 10,000 data points a second that are being sent through that acars system. so i find it difficult to believe that those pings contain data. i do believe that those pings do exist and that the united states satellites have been picking up those pings and maybe the malaysians as well. those pings are simply a phone call that s waiting for an answer. it doesn t mean that there s any data in it at all until the answer comes in that says yeah, we re speaking the same language. now that we are i m going to upload all the data that i ve been storing out of my acars system, the aircraft tracking and reporting system, communication reporting system excuse me which is sending all that information up. so it s designed that when it s connected to a satellite it
connected to a satellite it s constantly sending that information back to boeing and well send it back to air inc. which is a company that disperses the information. but that information then goes to rolls royce, it goes to boeing, it goes to the manufacturer from there. so to me the pings are very viable. it s what should be happening. what s confusing to me, two things that are confusing to me about that is that those pings that are coming off of there, why then is there not a transponder still on? that was turned off. that s the only explanation i would have. because if the electrical system failed to the extent where there s no communication, there s no satcom, no uhf, vhf, way for that pilot to communicate, why then would just that acars pinging be going on? okay. let me just take a break here. matthew robinson, when we come to you after the break i want to get really a sense from you about the mounting theory
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