contributor to the daily beast reporting about the airline industry for 30 years. you had a piece today i thought was very important about the timeline and basically about two minutes that are the key to understanding what happened. and you basically say the original report that came from malaysian authorities that had transponder being turned off before the final vocal contact from the cockpit would indicate very strongly that the locust of suspicion would be on the pilots, themselves. they did something to turn the transes ponder off, said hey, okay, good night, and go on their way. the fact the transponder goes out now in the new timeline after the final vocal contact you think is really important. yes, i think that shows you two things. it shows how unfirm the information is that they re putting out that they would do something as radical as changing that key part of this timeline. a timeline is a very essential instrument in building a picture of what s happening. the chronolo
we re beginning to see some of that pullback already. india s pulled back. in fact, the united states, the u.s.s. kidd pulled back. we re beginning to see a drawback. not for a lack of will but for a lack of indication that the work that s being done is actually going in a direction that s going to produce something. that is really, really interesting. thank you, nbc news correspondent, kerry sanders for that. appreciate it. joining me, clive irving, senior consultant for the daily beast, reporting about the airline industry for 30 years. you had a piece today i thought was very important about the timeline and basically about two minutes that are the key to understanding what happened. and you basically say the original report that came from malaysian authorities that had the transponder being turned off before the final vocal contact from the cockpit would indicate very strongly that the focus of suspicion would be on the pilots, themselves.