handover between malaysia and vietnam, for many, is the strongest evidence that something nefarious was going on. you ve investigated many incidents. is that coincidence that everything seems to go wrong at this particular critical moment? it can t be coincidence. i don t believe in coincidence with my accidents. it just seems to me that there was something. now, it doesn t mean that it was nefarious. it doesn t mean anything else. but, remember, there s a lot of systems doing a lot of things at that time as well. so the critical moment is immediately after this handover. when you re essentially in this kind of no man s land in the sky. yeah. nobody is watching right then. no one was watching, and flight 370 would vanish. coming up, a critical mistake by
cleared for departure, flight 370 takes off for a 5 1/2-hour scheduled flight to beijing. the human control, direct physical control on the controls, will probably cease after the landing gear goes up, the flaps goes up and it goes on autopilot. by 1:00 a.m., the 230 passengers onboard are cruising comfortable at 35,000 feet. even the pilots can relax a little. the plane is basically now flying itself. there was no particular challenge there for a seasoned captain and that first officer to handle that flight without any problem. and at 1:07 a.m., all seems well according to an automatic
message sent from the aircraft s communications system, called acars. richard quest is an anchor and aviation correspondent for cnn. think of acars as a giant smartphone that will send out huge amounts of information. via satellite or by radio transmission. then at 1:19 a.m., a standard handoff with air traffic control as the plane leaves malaysian airspace and enters vietnamese airspace. the controller here in malaysia tells him to speak to ho chi minh. and he says good night, malaysian 370, something i would do. there was no indication that anything had gone wrong. david sousi is a former safety inspector for the faa.
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blimp, they don t know with the speed erratic. it is mh 370. if you see something flying toward your country at 500 knots, that should raise concerns quickly. it didn t seem to. by now, the 777 is believed to be hundreds of miles off the original course. we don t know what is normal for their military. the big part of the problem with the investigation, is that the malaysians were tight lipped what what they knew, what they knew it. the air force continued to traffic the plane until it disappeared from radar. that never tell anyone with civilian authority. they don t want to talk about holes in the radar system, a