disclosing it, does that now pique your interest as a possibility of what went on here. not as much at this point in time. i have trouble getting around the conversation of the pilots. sothat this sequence this started sometime before that calm communication. meaning at probably 1:07. this conversation was at 1:19. all right. good night. but at 1:o07 the acar system was turned off. the communication system. right, right, right. is that what catches your attention? yeah. absolutely. if there was some sort of mechanical problem, some sort of a fire, there is enough time there for these guys to be aware of it and, in my view, and, you know, i think the calmness of the pilot just really the co-pilot just really jumps out at me. hank, if all of a sudden there is smoke and you are not even intend to have a conversation with air traffic control litany. if i turned to by my co-pilot oh my god there is smoke in here even if i
pings and potential sighting in the worst possible ocean in the world. let me weigh you in. should we know more at this point? could we know more? i think we could. michael brought up a good point. with air france we were getting data that was being downloaded almost continuously. so even though we never got all of the flight and of course it crashed and took us two years to get the black boxes to fill in the rest of the storyline. we were able to at least examine that information that was being downloaded to understand that they were having issues with the tubes and on board computers and giving the pilots possibly false information. if there was some sort of mechanical problem or event taking place that could be related to the airplane, that may have showed up in the data or at least it would have confirmed that nope, the airplane was perfectly fine and it was normally operating normally when somebody decided to turn the transponders off and acars system off. greg, they have
pilots particularly 50-year-old zaharie ahmad shah who owned a flight simulator at his house and had ties to malaysian radicalism. good morning. what do you think happened? well, in the beginning i thought if we have to look at the evidence that we actually have,ç that s the activity of the airplane, the way it climbed up over 45,000 feet and then went down radically. that doesn t sound like an airplane problem. i can t imagine what kind of an airplane, maintenance problem, mechanical problem that could be. in the beginning i thought it was a struggle of some kind to take over the airplane. and whether that s somebody on the airplane that s been trained to try to fly it to overcome the crews and try to fly the airplane somewhere. and i thought from the beginning that was the
unique circumstances that we have in this situation. greg feith, what stands out as a possible indication of what happened, the most clear signal? well, mika, it s evident that, you know, early on when the flight track changed, as soon as that airplane diverted from its track towards beijing, there was something more than just some sort of mechanical problem. there was enough data for us to know that that airplane was intentionally turned and it went on a different flight track and now affiliate radar coverage has lost that aircraft as a primary satellite off pings we know that aircraft was operational. with the latest information from a lot of the countries on that northern track who have said there is no evidence of any kind of aircraft on our radar and on our satellite information, we re going to focus on the southerly track. that southerly track has no
didn t mess around, they didn t go here, anywhere. hijackers know where they have to go and they have gps. it is easy to understand, easier than the plane, and they get there. the erratic flying does not point to me the hijacking. what does it point to? a mechanical problem, either hypoxia, a loss of steering capability like japan airlines. or a situation like stewart, where the pilots are no longer flying if you re just all over the place. but the second part of the news that came out today that rang so true it was frightening. and that is that the plane was up and down all over the place. on flight 93, the hijackers deliberately did that. they did that to throw the passengers off. remember they were trying to break into the cockpit.