said all right, good night. listen to what the ceo had to say yesterday at the press conference. the acars last transmission was 1:07. okay. we don t know when the acars was switched off after that. it was supposed to transmit 30 minutes from there another transmission, but that transmission did not come true. that was the very last transmission was 1:07. reporter: okay. didn t come true. but here s the point. the pilot said all right, good night at 1:19. we know that the transponder went out at 1:21. we don t know that acars was still operational or switched off by the pilots. everybody has been pointing a finger at the pilots because they thought they purposely turned that system off. not true. it wasn t supposed to report.
mode to track that heading. so the fact that it appears that it turned either to the north or to the south doesn t really jive with that theory. there is still the idea of a hijack of some sort, either an intruder or the crew. you know, that s sort of where we are. we re looking for enough data to make a reasonable conclusion. jim tillman, how accurate do you think this radar information is that has been released? do you believe because a lot of it is not clear-cut this was the plane, it s interpreting information that they were getting. well, i don t mean to say bad things about people, but i really don t trust any of that. i mean i keep getting all of these crazy stories about what the radar was picking up and what it wasn t picking up. hey, do you have radar contact or not? and i also wonder you know, i ve been critical of air
i do know that there are guys that like to have a simulator so that if they re going to fly into an unfamiliar airport, they can practice and be very, very comfortable when they do fly in there. but i am a little bit concerned about the sophistication of the one he had and that sort of thing. you know, had this incident not taken place, it probably wouldn t have meant anything but it does mean something now because whoever it is that is flying this airplane through all these machinations is a skilled pilot, very, very skilled, very, very experienced, and you ve got to wonder if it s very, very practiced. obviously that s something investigators have now in their possession and are going to be looking at to see what they can learn from that flight simulator. jim, stay with us, we re going to stake a short break and have more on how the flight could have flown for so many hours undetected. how is that possible. plus how the families of the missing are coping. we ll talk to a grief coun
problem like smoke in the cockpit if you had an electrical fire in the avionics bay or something like that, he would have turned to the nearest airport which would have made sense. under that hypothesis if they became incapacitated or if there was a flight control problem. if there was a flight control problem, they still would have had the radio, so it s hard to figure out. what really doesn t make sense on that, though, was if they did become incapacitated and the airplane was flying along, it would normally continue in the direction it was going because it would have been programmed either in the flight management computer or just in heading hold mode to track that heading. so the fact that it appears that it turned either to the north or to the south doesn t really jive with that theory. there is still the idea of a hijack of some sort, either an intruder or the crew. you know, that s sort of where we are. we re looking for enough data to make a reasonable conclusion.
computer or just in heading hold mode to track that heading. so the fact that it appears that it turned either to the north or to the south doesn t really jive with that theory. there is still the idea of a hijack of some sort, either an intruder or the crew. you know, that s sort of where we are. we re looking for enough data to make a reasonable conclusion. jim tilmon, how accurate do you think this radar information is that has been released? do you believe because a lot of it is not clear-cut this was the plane, it s interpreting information that they were getting. well, i don t mean to say bad things about people, but i really don t trust any of that. i mean i keep getting all of these crazy stories about what the radar was picking up and what it wasn t picking up. hey, do you have radar contact or not?