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Information is being beamed down? commonly what s downloaded is engine parameters, engine burn, discrepancies. reporter: airlines monitor the realtime data. another way to communicate, radio. all right, good night. the final call from the pilots as the theft malaysian air space. a common phrase when changing controllers. we are in a dive here. in alaska airlines flight 261 when the plane dived out of control, pilots radioed what was happening. but no may day from flight 370. in the event of an emergency, is communication secondary? yeah, the first thing is to fly the airplane, navigate the airplane, then communicate. that s the order of precedence. reporter: a third way to communicate, by transponder. 1:21 a.m. flight 370 s transponder signal goes dead. it transmits the plane s location, speed, altitude and ....
where is it going inspect it s headed to mars. this is one of the latest and the most ambitious missions by mars. it will be looking for life on the red planet. john zarrella will be joining me here in just a moment. we re only a minute away here, john. i want our viewers to be able to hear mission control here in a second. we re just a minute away and, actually, i m going to go ahead. john, you stand by for me. when this takes off, we ll be talking about this ambitious mission. over the top of this atlas rocket, it will travel some 350 million plus miles, over eight months to get to the red planet. we were just about 40 seconds away. i m going to go ahead and be quiet and i ll let mission control take over as we watch nasa history about to take place on this mission to mars. step three. t minus 30 seconds and counting. 28. for launch. status check. go atlas. go santar. t-minus 15 seconds. t-minus 10, 9, 8, 7, five, four, three, two, one, main engine sta ....
And just the things we were doing, a lot of tests, look at the engine parameters and performance. everything looked as we expect expected. reporter: you said it turned out a boring and routine flight. we don t like exciting for this kind of thing. that s what it was. it went as planned. so everything was good. in fact if i wasn t talking to you right now, it s just normal what we fly every day. reporter: major, thank you very much. they were flying what s called the camolino plant. there are 4,000 to 5,000 acres being grown in the midwest, mainly montana. and that will produce 400,000 gallons of this biofuel. jon: thank you. jane: you heard a coyote has been outfoxing cops in new york ....
Repair and maintenance parts for the next six years. the plane has been in use very little since that major repair, only two or three months. in addition to the interior work, all of the engines were completely rebuilt. speaking frankly, we believe this tragedy could not have been caused by equipment failure. you heard they say they don t believe it was caused by equipment failure. so what did cause it? we have a former member of the national transportation safety board. he joins us by phone from boston. so you heard what the gentleman said there, john. your professional opinion about this accident? well, we, one, learn that you don t take anything for granted. i mean, the flight data recorder, if it s a row best recorder, is going to give us the engine parameters, how they were performing, it will give us the voices in the cockpit, if it was up to western standards. i m assuming that. so, listen, i think it s 20 years older, maybe more or less, that s not particularly old for a ....