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How can they believe that if we are led to believe this plane went for some five hours? how are they saying it ended up in the water? definitively? what lead them to that conclusion? >> reporter: no. i mean, let me start with this. nothing is detfinitive in this story other than the plane is missing. they have made some calculations based on this technical data. and what they believe the flight path would have been if they could have calculated it based on the radar returns, the so-called blips ...

Uss kidd on the way out there. you have indian naval ships as well as airplanes from both the u.s. and india. its a tresk job in front of -- terrific job in front of them. no new news on any front right now. >> normally youre narrowing in on a certainly area right now. not the case here. it is widening. what does the u.s. intelligence community have to say about all this. lets bring back barbara star. >> good morning. why is the search widening? there is specific information. sources are telling...

Could have landed somewhere. a plane full of people, 239 people, doesnt just disappear. so where is flight 370? our big story. its been a week almost the fate of flight 370 remains unknown. we have new information tonight. barbara starr what do you know? >> reporter: good evening, piers. a senior u.s. official now telling cnn exactly what you said, there is a strong likelihood the flight is at the bottom of the indian ocean. why do they come to this conclusion? the malaysians have now given the ...

Airplane blew off. about 30 feet. it was a big piece. we started building our airplanes differently. and we now have what we call damage-tolerant air frames. you could see the result of that work on the part of boeing and airbus as well with the southwest airlines pressure administration blowout that occurred just a couple of years ago in arizona. the panel, the blowout only proceeded so far and it stopped because the structure has been designed to stop those kinds of blowouts. the same thing we...

That as an investigator. but lets make sure we know whats happened to the airframe and the folks that were on it before we start to suppose what happened. >> captain, good information. captain funk, thank you very much. i want to get straight to cnns tom foreman. you have a better picture of exactly what happened. >> well, like all of us, were trying to figure out what happened here. it seems like all of this evidence is almost not helping us. this was the original flight path. it takes off, its...

Klugs on that, but the evidence of what we know so far is such, this plane stopped transmitting any information. it disappeared. its clearly in many pieces. and the only sort of force that does that on an aircraft is dramatic and it is very, very catastrophic, because what it also has to do, candy, it has to sever all electrics. it has to sever the airframe. it has to prevent -- even with air france 447 a few years ago the plane continues to send out data right the way down to the ocean -- to wh...

You know, obviously terrorism comes to mind whenever you see an airplane go down. but could there are a mechanical failure at that point that would lead to shutdown with all communications? >> it could have been. i have heard about how malaysian airlines reportedly have had some financial problems of late. you know, sometimes an airline is having financial problems skims a bit on some of the safety inspections. so you know, there could be any number of things that could have caused some catastro...

Aircraft. thats one particular thing theyll be looking at. theyll be looking at how the pilots were handling the aircraft in the those last moments. did they allow the speed to bleed off. what was the engine management. because we will know from those pictures how the aircraft came out of the sky, that will be the crucial piece of evidence. >> i understand this particular aircraft had been flying for 23 years for at least eight different airlines. is that will typical of a 737? >> you know, the ...

Attached to the airframe. while out at the accident site, i had an opportunity to walk the entire debris field from the aircraft to the seawall and back. when you get down to the seawall, you can identify where the first strikes took place. first the mainlanding gear impacted the seawall. and then the tail. you can see pieces of the cabin, sections of the cabin that are found very early on in the debris field. you can see aircraft parts, galley materials, newspapers, magazines, and flooring. we ...

A lot more hope here than there is any right to expect. when all is said and done, i wanted to go to the congo, and i did. im don lemon in new york. we have some brand-new information to share with you in the aftermath of that deadly airline crash in san francisco. here is what were learning here. the new details about the chief pilot, the captain of the asiana airlines boeing 777. a south korean aviation official released not only his name, but exactly how much experience that he had flying t...