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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...

Captain tilmon, jim tilmon alluded to it before the break, if anyone took over the plane, what was or still is their end game and how, if it was a hijacking, did they evade detection. tom foreman has several leading scenarios investigators are looking at and he joins us now. >> reporter: theyre leading scenarios and theyre all bad. lets bring in the map. points of reference here. we know a week and a half ago the plane took off from kuala lumpur, flew less than an hour and vanished off the coast...

Mystery goes on. clirn, thank you. >> thank you. and straight ahead, flying below the radar of, did the malaysian airlines descent ascend to dangerous altitudes and drop to dangerous altitudes to hide from detection? thats next. the pilots political ties. is it significant to the fate of the flight he commanded? the latest is coming up. predicting the future is a pretty difficult thing to do. but, manufacturing in the united states means advanced technology. we learned that technology allows us ...

Plane went. that has become very frustrating of course to the families who are facing unimaginable anguish that they wait for news about this plane. some families in china threaten to launch a hunger strike on claims that the malaysia authority are not releasing enough information. they are trying to reduce the massive search corridors looking again at satellite data and marking off areas searched but the at moment theyre keeping to two huge northern and southern corridors the planes may have fl...

And sooner or later, were going to learn what that is. >> theres a lot of speculation about that, michael, online. we heard yesterday that israel is increasing its security measures, in light of the missing plane, concerned it could be used as a weapon of mass destruction. what is the likelihood of that? >> i really, i feel so much for the family members and so many people are grasping for some bigger issue here. i have to say, in my experience with terrorist organizations, and what weve seen th...

Captain tillman, jim tillman alluded to it before the break, if anyone took over the plane, what was or still is their end game and how, if it was a hijacking, did they evade detection. tom foreman has several leading scenarios investigators are looking at and he joins us now. >> reporter: theyre leading scenarios and theyre all bad. lets bring in the map. points of reference here. we know a week and a half ago the plane took off from kuala lumpur, flew less than an hour and vanished off the coa...

In quotes, know that? >> they couldnt know it positively. they are extrapolating from data they have and altitude radar data is not as good as directional. where you are on earth as opposed to how high. >> john would it help you avoid detection if you were to fly at 5,000 feet? >> remember, we have to -- come reported as many as three countries maybe more to get all three countries violating the airspace of numerous jurisdictions to get that far undetected? its almost impossible i would believe....

Welcome back to "new day." im joining us from kuala lumpur. a new report says they believe the plane could have flown down to below 5,000 feet across three countries to avoid radar. im joined by the editor of the "new straits times." sum it up what you have heard from your sources. that they dipped below areas of 5,000 feet and what is terrain masking? why would they do it? >> this would be the closest way to answer this question that everybodys asking how -- where is it and how did it -- if it ...

Mystery goes on. clirn, thank you. >> thank you. and straight ahead, flying below the radar of, did the malaysian airlines descent ascend to dangerous altitudes and drop to dangerous altitudes to hide from detection? thats next. the pilots political ties. is it significant to the fate of the flight he commanded? the latest is coming up. when does your work en does it end after youve expanded your business?

One towards pakistan and kazakhstan and rout number two going off the west coast of australia you believe the focus is on option number two. why is that? >> well i believe, if they went north towards cats sack stan there are some radar detection capabilities, military facility ies, afghanistan, bagram air force base, india, pakistan, right frankly if it hit some of those airspace it is may have been shot down. i personally think it would have been picked up by radar, we would have found out abou...