Flight 5191 News Today

Experts may prove useful. do you think this can be a possibility? do you think it could be? >> well, its rather hard to say. the problem is we just have so few data points, right? and more and more interpretations of limited data just yields more and more speculation thats not really on solid ground. >> okay. one more for you, captain. this is from john. does the malaysian flight 370 have the ability to jettison, or to dump fuel while in flight? if so, do you think it could throw off anticipated...

Conference a few hours later. i would like to refer to the news report suggesting they continued the flight after last contact. they were concerned and these reports are inaccurate. they go on to say they have been speaking and they spoke to rolls skprois boeing both on the ground here. they have been here several days and they were shown this story and denied that as well. they said those reports are inaccurate. that is being knocked down. a few hours later, the same information with you on the...

Correspondents in washington including barbara star saying that the flight may have flown on four to five hours over the ocean. there were pings picked up hours after the plane had vanished. long after the plane had vanished. that is our correspondent in malaysia. we will get back to him and barbara star as well as other analysis on the breaking news here on cnn. [announcer] if your dog can dream it, purina pro plan can help him achieve it. ♪ driving rock/metal music stops ♪music resumes mus...

Confidence. this is a worthwhile line of inquiry with the caveat that its not 100%. final thing and we talked about this ever since this flight disappeared. is terrorism an issue here? im told even with the new information that the position of the u.s. intelligence community remains the same. there is no indication of terrorism yet and that is where they stand on that. this takes them in the different direction as to where they are going to search. one of the areas they will be searching now. >>...

House. the search area has expanded to the indian ocean. i want to bring in now our chief national correspondent jim sciutto in washington. this is part of his reporting as well as our barbara starr. jim, i want to play something that jay carney said earlier. lets listen and well talk about it. >> there are a number of possible scenarios that are being investigated as to what happened to the flight, and we are not in a position at this time to make conclusions about what happened, unfortunately,...

How long it took to find the fuselage, the flight that crashed in the middle of the atlantic, it took two years to find the fuselage of that plane. they have data to indicate where it went down and yet they were still looking on the bottom of the ocean for two years. so imagine if youre looking on the bottom of a deep ocean for, you know, without a real indication as to where it went down yet. thats where we stand now. that really makes it possible its a long time before this is found. >> well, ...

This in my back yard. >> i will get to a former ntsb board member. being a former ntsb board member, i want to give you the information from the white house. jay carney said there is new information and new searches may be opening up in the indian ocean for the missing flight. many countries are partnering in the search and following leads. what do you make of the new information? >> it means that they have been going-over the radar and other data and they have indications that the airplane mayb...

I think that me surviving was random. i just happened to be in the right place at the right time. but it was my wake-up call. i am enjoying every day of my life now. >> 156 loved ones who were buried august 16, 1987, at 8:46 p.m. northwest airlines flight 255 that we remember by name. >> but i come out all the time, every year. its my one thing i do. but they were home on vacation. little billy had climbed the tree. my father said get out of that tree before you break a leg. we wish hed broken a...

Christmas to visit my brothers, my nieces and nephews. i was happy and excited, and in a split second, i went back to the family members that lost somebody on flight 5191. what are they thinking about and what are they going through with christmas coming up? they dont have that person there anymore. >> this is my home, which is mostly full of animals. i take it in my mother. she was standing out on the dock, and there was a dolphin that just popped up and i got a picture of her with it. it just ...

This will never not be in our lives. its such an emotional cross that he bears, that no one really sees but me. and he would have given anything to have gone with all of them rather than sitting here today and doing this. >> the faa has admitted it violated its own policy by having only one controller in that tower at bluegrass airport. a second controller should have been in the tower handling planes on radar while the other worked with planes on the runway. >> everybody was really very focused...