positioning. nine minutes later, the radar loses the plane all together. here s what s new. i want to you follow me step by step. the acars system was programmed to transmit information in 30-minute intervals. the next scheduled data burst would be at 1:37. that didn t happen. they admit from 1:07 to 1:37, they have no idea when that acars equipment stopped working. it could have stopped at any point during that 30-minute block of time. that s a much different story than what we heard this weekend when authorities in malaysia stated that the two systems, acars and the transponder went off separately and said because they went off separately, it looked like it was deliberate. they are getting this new timeline and people say this puts back on the table the possibility that maybe this was mechanical and not the pilot. brooke?
try to fill in gaps as we go. before that let s turn to my colleague who is standing by in washington. suzanne? new details revealed this morning from the chair men of malaysian airlines who are providing a timeline in the first hour of the flight. this alters how we know and what we know about the missing plane s mysterious journey. saturday at 12:41, malaysia flight 370 takes off headed to beijing, china. the boeing 777 is carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew on board. 26 minutes into the flight, at 1:07 a.m., one of the plane s critical communications sends the final transmission. the on board security is called the aircraft communications addressing and reporting system or acars. it measures thousands of data points about the plane and pilot s performance and sends the information via satellite.
they want to know if you want to test your skills. go to cnn.com/brackets. that s it for me. i will be back 5:00 p.m. in the situation room. a two-hour special edition. newsroom with brooke baldwin starts right now. thank you so much. you are watching the coverage of the disappearance, but the burning question here is did something sin ter happen in the cockpit of that plane? what we are doing here is piecing together this timeline as one bit of information still remains unclear. was a crucial tracking system, we will hear this a lot, the acars system from the plane s engines to the ground basically every half hour turned off before the koblg pit made the
renee, what point on the clock, let s put it that way, are they honing in on? the block of time that we are talking about here is 1:07 to 1:37 a.m. malaysian authorities appear to be back tracking on information they gave about the timeline of events and the new timeline they are giving today in the words of one 777 pilot makes what happened look less deliberate and more mechanical. here s the new timeline. saturday march 8th, 1:07, the acars system sent the last information about the health of the plane much the last radio transmission with the copilot saying already, good night. perfectly normal as they were going and doing the handoff for malaysian airspace towards vietnam. two minutes later, the plane s transponder stopped transmitting the altitude, speed, and
prepared to be corrected, but i don t believe there was wi-fi on board this aircraft. e-mailing or tweeting. even if there was, disconnecting wi-fi is the easiest. that really is just a flip of a switch. if anybody is going to disconnect acars, they ain t going to waste time worrying about switching off the wi-fi. as for the ground, where this plane was going was over the water. there will be no cell signals and even over ground if you are miles up. you are not going to be able to get a sell signal. grab some water. i know you have been on tv all day. coming up, what happened on the final few minutes while it was still in the air. we are working on putting together the pieces of what we know for you here. is there any way the plane could have landed in the water? i m talking about a controlled landing. knowing something was going wrong and department leave a bit of debris. we will explore that area coming