The gorgeous Megan Kelley ( fox news)interviewed the vice chairman of the senate intelligence committee, Senator Chambliss and he told her. (And I quote from the video):
"We know for example that somebody manually turned that transponder off."
Kelley asked how do we know that?
answer: "well those that have examined it and er particularly the folks from Boeing who obviously made the airplane , from what they have been told, ah there just simply is no way that a catastrophic event turned that transponder off. Somebody had to manually turn it off. "
She said she asked him if that means its a highjacking or a terroist act and he said absolutely no question about it.
she then asked tom blank a former deputy had of tsa and he wildly veered off the subject talking goobldy gook.
Now BOEING should know better than that. Incidents and accidents in aviation do NEVER happen because of one cause. And it is gobbeldygook anyway, there are plenty of possibilities with a catastrophic event that can take the transponder out. And taking the transponder off-line can be the reaction of another catastrophic event.
If those conversations with Boeing effectively happened the only advise I can give their General Counsel is to hire the lawfirms already.
Who did Boeing send there to make such unqualified remarks? An accountant? A lawver? A salesman?
INCREDIBLE!!! No wonder the aircraft has not been found yet. aif even the 'experts' can't give you any reasonable answers...