hide. so professor what you are saying is when they heard all right with nights that was after agard is turned off which is more difficult to do than what we already know the transponder being turned off seems to be the easiest and more sensible thing. how do you turn that of oh and don t get intoen suit is it in the cockpit? it is a computer in the cockpit you have to get into to shut it down. do you have to remove a panel or something? no, no, it s sort of like setting something in the computer you have to pull down to a couple of pages. you have to hit the right button to but it is more difficult than setting off the transponder. the transponder also has a hijack code on it. if an intruder came into the cockpit that would be the first
altitude that aircraft is at. specifically these altitudes, 29,500 feet. that s pretty accurate. when you are in the middle of the south china sea and there is no primary radar coverage and you lose altitude, ascertaining what height that aircraft is at, at any point beyond the transponder being turned off is incredibly difficult. even with primary radar trying to triangulate. michael thanks. stick around. you will be back with us a little later in the show. coming up the frantic search for flight 370 continues. could the missing airliner have actually landed somewhere? and could those passengers still be alive? stay w [ music and whistling ] when you go the extra mile to help business owners save on commercial auto insurance, you tend to draw a following. [ brakes screech ]
that, they got the last transmission basically they were handed off from malaysian air traffic controllers to vietnam. then after that the transponder was turned off. it appears that at least either the pilots were in control of the airplane. someone acting as a pilot in control of the airplane. after we started to get the sequence of the airplane were trying to masquerade itself to hide. so professor what you are saying is when they heard all right with nights that was after agard is turned off which is more difficult to do than what we already know the transponder being turned off seems to be the easiest and more sensible thing. how do you turn that of oh and don t get intoen suit is it in the cockpit? it is a computer in the cockpit you have to get into to
we did video recreations of the flight. in that case they would take the nose up, try to throw them to the back, and try to throw them off balance and rock it back and force. that is the only thing that struck me like terrorism. everything else is basically six or seven pings. and pings don t tell me terrorists. pings say something is wrong if that is all you have. but there is like i said what about the transponder being turned off? that is something the pilot can do manually? no, we don t know if the transponder was turned off. we know we got no more signals from the transponder. the only way we know if it was turned off, some interruptions from communications, is from some sort of communications from the cockpit. well, mary, you know the safety of the 777 it is a great airplane, and you know the level of redundancy on the airplanes,
we did video recreations of the flight. in that case they would take the nose up, try to throw them to the back, and try to throw them off balance and rock it back and force. that is the only thing that struck me like terrorism. everything else is basically six or seven pings. and pings don t tell me terrorists. pings say something is wrong if that is all you have. but there is like i said what about the transponder being turned off? that is something the pilot can do manually? no, we don t know if the transponder was turned off. we know we got no more signals from the transponder. the only way we know if it was turned off, some interruptions from communications, is from some sort of communications from the cockpit. well, mary, you know the safety of the 777 it is a great airplane, and you know the level of redundancy on the airplanes,