. >> and into this confusion suddenly drops the inmarsat data. >> inmarsat, a british company, reportsht 370 had exchanged digital signals known as handshakes with their satellites. >> that was a watershed moment. and that changed everything. >> it changed everything because everyone had thought flight 370 had gone completely dark, but the discovery of the digital handshakes was proof the plane was in the air for several hours longer than anyone thought. >> suddenly, they have evidence that it flew west and south and continued to fly for some 6 1/2 hours. >> using complicated calculations, inmarsat could roughly determine where the plane was going. >> this is evidence that is kind of getting close to black magic. i mean, it's a feat of mathematics and ingenuity and reverse engineering, but we just don't know how accurate it is. >> but it is also the only hard evidence available to investigators, and malaysian prime minister najib razak. >> i asked them again and again, are you sure? and their answer to me is we are as sure as we can possibly be. >> he needed to be sure because, based o