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After all, everything is on the table. bottom line is i believe the aircraft was manipulated. i dont believe that aircraft are had any kind of malfunction whatsoever. i dont think it was a suicide mission. i think this is a well funded high tech hijack operation and its sitting somewhere in the jungle. and, yeah, i think they carved a strip for it. yes, the pilot could have been able enough to fly below detection and put that baby right down where he wants to put it down. hes got a flight simula...

11th day. and were focusing in on some key moments in the time line. there are new questions emerging today about a crucial period when the plane was crossing between malaysian and vietnamese air space. earlier, malaysian authorities said a communication system was shut down before the verbal message from the cockpit when the co pilot said, quote, all right, good night. now they say theyre not sure exactly when the system was shut off. malaysian officials also say they cannot confirm a malaysian...

Profile, then you will, indeed, fly low and map the terrain below 5,000 feet or over the bay of bengal, where there is no radar coverage, an area i know quite well. but you know, we are here moving towards suggesting its deliberate hijacking, an attempt to avoid detection and land somewhere for nefarious purposes. there is no evidence this is the case. i am still fairly confident that this is actually something more normal, more like some sort of technical failure, a scenario im quite happy to t...

Flew down to 5,000 feet and across at least three countries. >> reporter: if it did pass the last point of detection, how did it pass through this area without being detected? the terrain obviously has to be up north in the search. when you go that low, you would have to have the kind of knowledge to fly to your destination. >> malaysian officials announced australia would take the lead in searches the indian ocean. the head of the airlines believe it was the co-pilot that said the last words to...

Saying. someone did turn that aircraft. it was by hand. i suspect by the auto pilot because the navigation systems are not connected to the communication systems that have been disabled. so im very convinced that someone took this aircraft, took it off course and flew it again with the altitude information from the "wall street journal," i dont put a lot of credibility into that because i just dont believe in primary radar that much. so the fact that it went both directions, yes. >> let me jump ...

Many flights. is it possible that somebody could have commandeered this plane and got as far as somewhere like pakistan as some people are suggesting? >> absolutely. there was enough fuel on the airplane to do that. whether without -- you would think that if that airplane had been over a land mass, someones radar would have been able to pick that up. and it certainly at this point, political pressures alone, i would think, would have determined that the pakistani government or another government...

I want to ask you a more focused question about the terrain. i believe you know the area well. obviously completely baffling to many people watching the story were only finding out now it could be in the indian ocean. is it possible there is anywhere in that area where a plane this size could have landed without detection? >> well, of course its possible. but is it likely? probably not. and welcome to my world. if there was a simple explanation for all these questions i would be out of a job at ...

Satellites five hours after the transponder went dead. u.s. officials saying theres a significant likelihood the plane is at the bottom of the indian ocean. back with me is my panel and bill nye a former boeing engineer and working on the design of so-called black boxes. and retired senior ntsb investigator. matthew robinson, we were talking before the break there. i want to ask you a more focused question about the terrain. i believe you know the area well. obviously completely baffling to many...

He admitted this during the phone-hacking scandal. chicago is set to battle a rat infestation as the city thaws out. crews are spreading out poison. one lawmaker wants to hire a company that uses a special liquid to sterilize the pets. those are some of our top stories on this friday, march 14th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." good morning, everyone. we begin this half hour with new developments in the case of malaysia airlines flight 370. >> abc news has learned step...

Somewhere although thats not the most likely scenario. jenna: what about a massive electronic failure? >> i think most aviation safety experts at this point would say thats highly, highly unlikely. theres too many coincidences, and it seems someone on this aircraft wanted to evade detection, and the plane kept flying for more than five hours after it disappeared from civil air traffic control radar. so that would be an extremely are unlikely scenario. you could never rule anything out completely...