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With or in conjunction with, that he became radicalized, moved the family so they could get less information. were searching for answers, too. >> the thing that strikes me first of all is the flight responders they used to identify where the flight is were turned off before the pilot said good night. >> thats been going back and forth all weekend long, bob. they have said, all right, good night happened just before the transponder was physically turned off, and then we heard it happened just aft...

Pictures of anything big on the water. and then i will zoom in, verify that its not debris and go back to the radar. >> reporter: the two corridors identify the possible location of the plane based on the last signal that was picked up by a satellite over the indian ocean. the size of the new search area is based on the estimates of planes remaining fuel. to the north the plane would have flown mostly over land, china and kazakhstan are among countries asked to check radar records. the australia...

Same. probable cause for illegal activity. now, we have more than enough for a search warrant of the bank accounts and residences of the two pilots. in fact we know that the two search warrants have been executed. they looked at homes and found intriguing things. the more they find, the more they can go back and get search warrants and continue to look deep. the passengers are not fair game unless there is some evidence of some untoward criminal activity. >> or there is a flight engineer on ther...

The ta poseidon. a modified 737. this is big jet and con cover eight hours and a lot of surface area looking through the water for debris underneath. this has a lot to do with the uss kidd that moved into the northwestern section of the straight of ma lackca. that is what the united states is doing this. -- straight of malacca. youre as many of 24, or 28 that offered some sort of assistance to try to find flight 370. martha: extraordinary effort. investigators are not looking just at the pilots ...

Launching background checks on everyone on board. our saima mohsin is joining us from malaysia js capital, you talked to family members of a young flight engineer also on that plane. how are they taking all of this? >> reporter: with great difficulty, wolf. its a really delicate balance, isnt it? trying to be sensitive to the loved ones and family of those on board the flights, but at the same time having to do the crucial job of asking tough questions and investigating the people on board. i sp...

Cockpits years ago. certainly post 9/11 i was amazed you could still do that and adults would go in and out. but lets move on to this pilot and his flight simulator. is that in your experience, matthew wald, common, unusual, strange? >> i know that -- i dont know. i know that there are a lot of pilots who live and breathe airplanes, and in fact become really attached to one model of airplane. right after twa 800, i met a man who had been a captain and reached the mandatory retirement age of 60 w...

Thanks for watching cbs cbs 5 -- watching. cbs evening news with scott pelly is next. and debris in the search for a ing jetliner. seth doane speaks with the family of a missing american. >> until theres proof that philip is dead, i refuse to believe it. >> pelley: bob orr on the investigation. and well talk to sully sullenberger about what might have been gone wrong. foe rstime, the father of adam lanza talks about the sandy hook shootings and his sons mental health. >> reporter: does he blame ...

Eyewitnesses of a plane crash or debris. brian? >> tom costello covers aviation for us. starting us off from our d.c. newsroom, tom, thanks as always. and tonight, were joined by greg fife, a veteran of these investigations. as a former senior air director with the ntsb, also happens to be a veteran pilot. greg, youre in the business of ruling nothing out. though if this were submitted as a hollywood script, it would be rejected for being too incredible. if were looking for this over land, doesn...

Airplane in the critical moments before it was lost. authorities are look at those two men who used stolen passports to board the flight. police say an iranian middle man bought the men tickets in thailand, one-way fares to fly from malaysia to beijing and on to europe. police have airport surveillance pictures of the two travelers and their thumbprints. the f.b.i. is expected to check that information against criminal and terror databases. sources say authorities have identified partial names f...

Were back as promised with more on this disappearance of flight 370. and the question that has emerged from the start when we first learned about it friday night, how it is possible a wide body aircraft has disappeared without an electronic ping, without a locator beacon, without a trace of any sort. nbcs stephanie gosk on the limitations of our technology. >> reporter: the last known location of malaysia airlines flight 370 was over the china sea, after that it disappeared. but here is somethin...