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The cargo hold. >> a bomb? >> a bomb. or a hazardous material fire,lly or legally. maybe? >> would start a fire. >> okay. >> or an electrical fire. all of those would explain the series of events that happened in the shutdown of the communications. >> okay. let me take you you in that if there is a fire, i assume there is some sort of notice because there are so many detectors throughout the plane. there is no may day call there was a deliberate effort to change the direction of the plane. and t...

On the northern side how far the airplane went. >> thats good to have. that takes us to the other siting. theres now fishermen. how much do we invest in this type of thing? >> eyewitnesses not the most reliable source of information, but this will not be discounted. this needs to be looked at and followed up. >> if it hit the water, its plausible somebody saw it right? >> thats right. if fishermen saw it, they can look there. there would be debris. if theres debris, obviously they found it. its ...

Then you say, okay, if it was something catastrophic or something very fast that overwhelmed acars, then how come the plane was still flying around for hours if in fact the radar information is correct. >> and thats exactly the conundrum in this case. thats why as the minister said, this is no ordinary -- no normal investigation. this is why the ceo of malaysia airlines said this is unprecedented. this is why were talking about it at such great length because nobody can come up with a scenario t...

Acars was recording. this was put in as a safety waypoint. somebody decided to fly that way. does it make sense? >> you know, it does. there are a couple of things pu puzzling to me. ive been of the thought this was executed and planned way in advance. if that were the case, i cant see why acars puff been left on why the waypoint was put in place. if they were hiding the fact, acars would have been turned off first, then the waypoint turn would have been made. to me thats perplexing if this was ...

Find out what happened to that plane because we need to learn from it. weve learned several things already. we learned a billion people dont get passports verified through interpol and all cockpit doors are not checked around the country. >> but active search -- >> it will change as it was with air france. two years later they were able to pull out the black box and the plane. we have to know -- >> they have wreckage within five days. >> acars thats right. >> and pretty good idea of where the pl...

Covering two and a quarter million square nautical miles, an area almost as big as the continental united states. the "new york times" is today reporting that there was a change of course programmed into the jets navigation system, and more to the point, this information was sent to controllers by that acars system. thats the flight data communications system youve been hearing so much about. acars last full transmission before it was disabled was at 1:07:00 a.m. 12 minutes before the co pilots ...

Southern part of that arc, that very wide area that theyre searching. we now know that that is the focus of this search in many ways in the indian ocean. whats the latest there, jim? >> well, we know that the search assets have been greatly increased with japan, south korea, new zealand, australia, the united states, and others bringing in all kinds of advanced reconnaissance aircrafts -- aircraft in order to search that area. indonesia and australia have divided it up. fees ya indonesia is goin...

At 1:21, the transponder goes off. all hell breaks loose. at 1:30 it loses control. but what were missing here is at 1:37 the acars expected transmission didnt happen. so what this malaysian airlines executive is saying, it doesnt mean someone shut it off, it just didnt go off on the half hour as it was scheduled to do. this casts doubt into whether that plane took a left turn and went into the indian ocean and got pinged by that saltellite which is why were looking at half of the planet. bringi...

The thinking is it could have traveled through india and afghan air space as well and could have wound up out there anywhere. but because the transponder and the acars turned off, we dont know exactly where. its another theory. yesterday we told you that the thinking was there was also a possibility that it could have gone down to 5,000 feet above sea level to avoid detection as well. >> there is no radar in the ocean. >> when those switches went off, we thought originally there was some space b...

Involved. is there a potential this could have been hacked or there could have been a virus in this computer that could have caused something to fail from that point of view? >> there is always a potential for a problem with the computers and lots of things on board. i will only there have been several directives, warnings put out by the federal aviation administration. it says to officers, you must go fix or inspect this. there have been several warnings about the acars to various electronics, ...