information, the speed information, it tells us about vibration information. if there was a bomb or something that happened dramatically on board or a fire even would cause enough vibration that that data would have been sent back. there s 10,000 data points a second that are being sent through that acars system. so i find it difficult to believe that those pings contain data. i do believe that those pings do exist and that the united states satellites have been picking up those pings and maybe the malaysians as well. those pings are simply a phone call that s waiting for an answer. it doesn t mean that there s any data in it at all until the answer comes in that says yeah, we re speaking the same language. now that we are i m going to upload all the data that i ve been storing out of my acars system, the aircraft tracking and reporting system, communication reporting system excuse me which is sending all that information up. so it s designed that when it s connected to a satellite it
connected to a satellite it s constantly sending that information back to boeing and well send it back to air inc. which is a company that disperses the information. but that information then goes to rolls royce, it goes to boeing, it goes to the manufacturer from there. so to me the pings are very viable. it s what should be happening. what s confusing to me, two things that are confusing to me about that is that those pings that are coming off of there, why then is there not a transponder still on? that was turned off. that s the only explanation i would have. because if the electrical system failed to the extent where there s no communication, there s no satcom, no uhf, vhf, way for that pilot to communicate, why then would just that acars pinging be going on? okay. let me just take a break here. matthew robinson, when we come to you after the break i want to get really a sense from you about the mounting theory
included very detailed information that investigators are now using to triangulate the aircraft s potential position now. those included things like the gps location, the speed and the altitude of the aircraft. after at least five hours of transmitting, the signal stopped. investigators really right now are trying to determine why it stopped. and that s really the central question of this investigation. right. but as i say, barbara starr just reported for cnn that the belief of u.s. officials is that it is highly probable that plane is now at the bottom of the indian ocean. does that correlate to anything that you have heard in relation to what they believe happened at the end of the pings? well, we don t know. and certainly the data right now suggests that the aircraft was flying the data we have and the reporting we ve just done indicates the airplane was in a normal cruise altitude when it stopped broadcasting.