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One has inspected any international forces, no international organization has inspected the pakistani air fields or the iranian air fields or anything like that. so i dont think we can rule anything out including terrorism. we also have to look at patterns of behavior on the pilot and co-pilot. and they have some very interesting patterns of behavior despite what his son said. first of all, the captain of an airplane is in charge if anything goes wrong. if it is mechanical or something like that...

Is logged, it is filed and it is kept. ive never seen such meticulous bookkeeping as when it comes both from airbus and boeing, and they used to do it on files in little pieces of paper and they could pull it out. now its all computerized. you put it into the system. it tells you where it was manufactured. it tells you what plane it was on. >> richard quest, good analysis as usual. thank you. to our viewers in north america, "crossfire" wont be seen today so we can bring you more of our special ...

Huge, its mammoth. >> what is the solution here? the families watching we reported the news and analyze it but there are families hundreds of family members watch this thinking oh, my god they see debris what are they talking about? a loved one? belongings? a plane? they want to know. they dont understand why a satellite cant 0 in on something that mieft prove to be a life jacket. why jets cant get there fast enough. >> its a painful situation. unfortunately there is no answer. if you look at ai...

One has inspected any international forces, no international organization has inspected the pakistani air fields or the iranian air fields or anything like that. so i dont think we can rule anything out including terrorism. we also have to look at patterns of behavior on the pilot and co-pilot. and they have some very interesting patterns of behavior despite what his son said. first of all, the captain of an airplane is in charge if anything goes wrong. if it is mechanical or something like that...

Cockpit. you just turn the button, its off. the acars system is a little bit more complicated to turn that off. i dont know if you can do it from strictly sitting in the cockpit or if you have to leave the cockpit and go to the underbelly. how do you turn off the acars system? >> the only reason youd be pulling a circuit breaker in the cockpit. you could turn off part of acars system. >> that would turn it off. >> the only reason youd be pulling a circuit breaker in the cockpit by manual operati...

It merely changes the area where the aircraft ended. >> you said it still makes you believe there was something mechanical. explain that. i believe that one possible scenario that makes sense for all the day that that we have found would be a fire in the electronics bay that would have caused the failure of the equipment. it would start with the failures of the acars and transponder. possibly vhf radios that would have precluded the pilots from communicating that would have caused smoke in the c...

Most of us who look at the transponder off, acars off, the computer system changing its flight path in the route. we look like terrorism to me. 100%? no, it could have been a mechanical failure, yeah. i would suspect were looking at terror, and we need answers so we can protect other people in the future, and the families need answers. >> cody asked, how could president obama have handled the ukraine situation more effectively? >> look, putin, to me, is a thug and a bully. and this is basic 101 ...

Airplane. he diverted it. >> he diverted it to the indian ocean. >> to the nearest field. an island, 13,500 feet -- >> transponder is off, acars is off. >> i believe it could be explained as an accident. >> bernie? >> im listening to geraldo. hes alienating, prevaricating, and i dont know. how do you go from obamacare to benghazi to the plane? im not following the train of thought. >> what about the senate candidate we were going to talk about from iowa, talking about castrating her opponent. co...

Ended up in this area? is that feasible? >> of course he could have disabled various systems. but to completely shut off the acars, he would have had to go back into the e and e, the electronics and engineering compartment thats eight feet behind the cockpit and down below the galley. and basically vacate the cockpit. the evidence is such that the acars system was being pinged by the satellite. so he would have had to disable that, too. it just seems so implausible to me. >> you must be talking ...

Some of the key facts here, facts you should get right, keep changes. they keep shifting. it then creates a suggestion, whats the motive? i happen to think the motive is theyre not terribly competent, but i may be wrong. there may be a plan. >> i agree, i think the turn, the fact the route was changed within the airplanes computer system, transponder off, acars off. >> that has to be the working hypothesis. >> always good to see you. thank you so much. and our coverage of the mystery surroundi...