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Authorities are being careful to remind us weather is not right the search area is large. theyre trying to down play expectations of where and when this may be found i want to get to catherine herrige. as far as information making sense this is the first time i can remember it appears at least we have something new. >> when you look at the dots theyve laid out in 72 hours, what you see is that this second intense review by national transportation safety board and faa of the existing signals data...

Versuses in kuala lampur. and does seem to be how the gathering of information is working whether they offered information from various sightings and people reporting and adding up the dots themselves. but we are on that trail for you. we are trying to check this out for outside. and ive been out there at sea today to find out exactly what they believe they saw. rosa. >> saima mohsin live for us in malaysia. thank you so much with fascinating details. 11 minutes after the hour. there were thre...

I am right now, could they been facing difficulties, could the plane been turning back to the cota baru airport. this is an airport that has low runways, 2,400 meters. >> one of the things thats fascinating about this, saima, is the details that theyre able to provide. and how investigators are using this information in this investigation, where we know that theres been a lot of criticism of the flow of information. what are these people telling you? how were they interviewed by authorities and ...

Hinged on that case going through the wreckage because there was wreckage to go through. but how soon did you start connecting those dots? >> well, we knew there was an explosion immediately as soon as they got the aircraft and certain things that happened with the depressurization with the explosion that will tell you yes it was a bomb. it took a couple of years, at least i recall, to get to the place where we found the switch that actually detonated the bomb and traced it back to the people wh...

Precept of aviation investigations, you have to look hard at this simplest answer and you know, i was involved in the last boeing that had an inflight fire. the illegal claims that came out of that and the thing about an in flight fire or mechanical failure, structural failure, it provides a kind of randomness to explain how these dots all connect. because right now, all we have are these discreet tidbits of information that can line up one way or the other and you know, a mechanical malfunction...

This is an enormous search area. and it is something that we should cannot possibly search on his own. >> search crews are looking for aircraft debris as far north as kazakhstan and south as the southern indian ocean and if the plane landed at this point, very unlikely, these yellow dots on the screen show the many possible locations that have runways long enough to land a plane like this. but despite the malaysian request for help, which you just heard, countries including the united states, in...

Plane, but the other plane, it was doing everything normally, being tracked normally. and this one slipped in behind it. and together they just created a single dot on the radar map. so nobody noticed it as it worked its way up the country amid all the other dots out there. because remember, the asian air space is one of the most heavily traveled in the world. tremendous number of flights there. so maybe you wouldnt notice if one dot was a little odd or bigger, especially since one plane is send...

All right. good night. 20 minutes later, someone who had to be knowledgeable about this plane turned off the transponders which send speed, location, altitude and heading information. then next the plane turned around and at 2:15 am the last radar contact in the strait of malacca headed north. the last ping was picked up by an orbitting satellite. if the plane did land, it could have touched down on any of these yellow dots. look at that. thats the needle in the haystack business. if it crashed,...

Have trained on that simulator, and if so, investigators want to locate those persons and find out what they know. that said, theres still nothing the authorities have made public suggesting a motive to take at that plane and fly it off course and is make it disappear. >> and, of course, a lot of pilots here saying thats not uncommon for pilots to have simulator in their own home. we also know that the pilot has been a supporter of the malaysian opposition party and that nation jailed the opposi...

Agree that and i think thats a precept of aviation investigations, you have to look hard at this simplest answer and you know, i was involved in the last boeing that had an inflight fire. the illegal claims that came out of that and the thing about an in flight fire or mechanical failure, structural failure, it provides a kind of randomness to explain how these dots all connect. because right now, all we have are these discreet tidbits of information that can line up one way or the other and you...