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Paints a target, gives you know good information. seeing that plane in the straights of malacca. then the inmarsat satellites which are getting this handshake ping. thats an incredibly small amount of information to base this investigation on. so we have that and basically using old-fashioned advanced algebra and geometry, the experts have been able to look and plot what they believe are these search zones. but quite frankly, at this stage of the investigation we would consider success finding j...

Investigators with information. theyre steering the investigation as they often do. the foreign investigators have not had experience doing this. >> what knowledge could boeing have that the malaysian officials dont have about what went on here? >> we know there were acars messages. theyre also dealing with a company theyve had a long relationship with inmarsat. who has done the satellite reconstruction. theyre privy to the information the malaysian government is giving it, and other sources, fi...

Type of mechanical or catastrophic event in the cockpit that forced that aircraft off course, to change heading, to apparently want to go to the nearest land at the nearest suitable airport. but there was no distress call. the acars was off. the transponders were off. that still leads me to believe that was human intervention. again, because the waypoints, the points, the flight path for that aircraft was put in and agreed to on the ground and in the flight management system. that was human inte...

Going on. >> keith mas billion dack, if only the final two hours are that which is recorded and if in fact this plane was flying on its own devices for several hours, those tapes could be blank? >> absolutely. welcome to intelligence work, law enforcement work, welcome to crash investigation, michael. it is piecing together a puzzle and every new piece of information has to be dealt with in the context of what you already have and what your assumptions are. >> theres such frustration, i feel for...

>> malaysian sources are telling cnn, theyre deeply suspecting some sort of criminal act to make that plane go off its regular route, towards beijing. are you ready to make that conclusion? >> no, sir. to me, you know, to turn back and descend would be a normal pilot reaction to an emergency. we have no evidence that there was an emergency. or a threat. we really cant choose here. if it was a threat, then obviously it could be a crime. it could simply be the pilot -- at this point, we cant tell ...

Which may indicate some type of catastrophic failure, we dont know it would have been intentionally turned off. there would be no reason to do that. thats surprising. when we have cell phones where hundreds of millions of people can be tracked in the another, where we need to figure out where somebody was, we can do that, we cant follow a 777 around the world is unimaginable to me. the pain and agony these families are facing should have been avoided. >> keith, to his point, this is something th...

Almost before the plane took off by malaysia airs decision, not to buy an app for their acars system. the aircraft was sold by boeing to malaysia air with a basic avionics suite that dont provide the upgrade that would have provided the same kind of information air france provided that would allow the investigators to within a week to at least know the area of the debris field theyre looking for. the thought that a jumbo jet -- that would allowed this stream of information. so all those pings th...

My humble opinion, if they are asking for help, we should provide it in spades. >> michael, you know better than anyone, the f acaa and similar organizations look for lessons from situations like this. >> right. >> what lessons should we be learning right now? >> just to go back to what michael said, quite frankly were putting the best resources in the world at a point in the investigation where we have very little hope of seeing any debris. lets go back to one lesson. remember when you talked a...

All that was working, so what you have a picture of here is a plane which is flying as it was designed to fly perfectly, but apparently no human intention. so we have to work our way back from that to what might not have been working to cause the things that give us pause, the lack of a call from the plane, the ending of the acars signal and the transponder. where is the division between those things? >> ive got to get the other panelists in here. i want to get jeff wises reaction. you write abo...

Providing power to the whole airplane. all that was working, so what you have a picture of here is a plane which is flying as it was designed to fly perfectly, but apparently no human intention. so we have to work our way back from that to what might not have been working to cause the things that give us pause, the lack of a call from the plane, the ending of the acars signal and the transponder. where is the division between those things? >> ive got to get the other panelists in here. i want to...