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Most likely location of the plane. tom, what are you learning? >> in all these mysteries, this is the mistily weve been watching the most lately which is how theyve been trying to use satellites to figure out this has moved. these are the search areas. weve seen the flight path that weve talked about so many times. this is the initial search area, more of them. now its been moving steadily west. now we have these new search areas that the u.s. is focusing on up in the bay of bengal and down here...

Breaks tonight, "the wall street journal" just reporting moments ago three tracking devices on the missing malaysia airplane were shut off during that flight. this plane, the journal reports, flew, it is believed some five hours after the transponders were shut off. and the last recorded signals from the plane appear to have come over the water. on the phone with us again, andy pastor, one of the reporters who is working this story for the journal and has been covering aviation for a few decades...

And scheduled this flight to go to beijing. we are still on that flight path. i will show you something interesting. we are past this little mark here on the navigation map. it was the last known official spot at which this aircraft actually reported in before it disappeared. that was before you got the all right, good night. we are beyond that. take a look at this. see all the blue? those are airports. not just any airports, but airports at which a 777 could land. this is vietnam. im pointing o...

It was unclear if they were right about that, but then today search teams went to the spot identified in those photos and said they couldnt find anything in the ocean south of vietnam where those satellite images had spotted something that was maybe something. it wasnt anything. the chinese government also came out today to confirm that the release of those satellite images was, in fact, a mistake. those images should not have been released in the first place. earlier this week, there was anothe...

Waiting for the ntsb and faa to look at all the radar records. theyve got multiple radar stations that were tracking an unidentified aircraft on that flight path right after flight 370 simply vanished into thin air. anderson? >> jim, stay with us. i want to bring more voices to bear on this conversation. chief national security correspondent jim sciutto and barbara starr broke the news about those data pings. richard quest is also here. jim, lets start with you. the shift west to searching the i...

Fly. this plane, apparently flew, the word youll hear, way points. the junctions on the interstates of the sky. go from one point to the next point to the next point to the next point and planes fly these in an orderly fashion. youre told by air traffic control as part of your flight plan to go from point a to point b to point c to point d. now, look, carol, this plane could have been flying, whatever plane it is, it could have been flying them on auto pilot or could have been flying them manual...

As you know now the plane vanished seven days ago. pentagon correspondent barbara starr joins me with that side of the story. good morning. >> good morning, carol. the ship has hit the northern end, essentially the entrance to the indian ocean and use its helicopters to conduct aerial searches for any evidence of debris field, any evidence of the plane. but earlier today, actually, a u.s. navy surveillance aircraft conducted its first air sweep of the region flying about 1,000 miles out into the...

Was someone flying or were the pilots incapacitated and the plane on auto pilot? can you follow this kind of flight path without someone at the controls? can auto pilot accomplish this? >> auto pilot could absolutely accomplish that. but it woot have to be programmed into the auto pilot and there would be no legitimate reason to program in that flight path which is sort of zigzagged in random directions. >> with that much of intention, with a lack of data and communication from the ground, again...

Which one do you want to start with first? >> lets start with mechanical failure. >> yeah. >> and i think the one thing it seems like we -- the one thing that hasnt been disputed is the loss of communication. that is the one thing that it seems is hard confirmed. all the stuff about the flight path, all the stuff about it flying five hours. talk me through what are the different communication systems on that plane and how would they cascade to failure if they werent manually shut down? >> i thin...

Then going down to 23,000, then back up to 30,000, then flying for several hours. what do you make of that? >> well, its interesting from an aerodynamic standpoint. the surface ceiling of the airplane is 41,500. if the plane is up at 45,000 feet, the margin between overspeeding the aircraft getting into whats sometimes called mach tuck going way too fast for the airplane and stalling the airplane becomes very, very small. youre up there in a very dangerous situation. the airplane is likely to co...