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Box has a pinging device. the water activates that and that starts transmitting at 37.5 kilahertz. i dont believe -- heres a scenario. >> youre saying its not in water. >> im not saying thats not in water and these are potentials. heres the potential i believe also is, that two people, or any individual passengers, bent on getting into that cockpit, took control of that cookpit, took control of the flight, disabled the transponders, maneuvered the aircraft to a lower altitude and took a direct f...

Takes time. i guess i would say we all need to be patient. as impatient as we are, and certainly the families are, to have news of their loved ones. its going to take a long time to work our way through this. >> i think those of us who are outsiders to this technology, who are just sort of consumers of air travel, dont know the ins and outs of it. we think of radar as omniscient. we think of radar as something that covers every corner of the globe, thats why its so hard to imagine a 777 airliner...

Or didnt stay on isnt the issue. it doesnt change course on its own even though it has an automated flight path. without radio communications, without the communications we have we know were off, that really wouldnt be possible fsh it to follow a path. it would be possible to set up the points ahead of time and then fly from point to point to point. but -- >> so youre saying somebody had to do something? >> absolutely. theres intent. >> and then the discussion bringing in the andaman islands. th...

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 think we should look at the questio...

So this airplane, its not clear whether it flew directly over the waypoints or it just got near them. >> right. is this consistent -- i can actually draw on here. so if the activity was this way and goes this way and changes or regardless of that, does that indicate that somebody is punching those coordinates into the cockpit somehow or that they are coming close to the waypoints that thats the reference that we know roughly where they were? >> well, thats an excellent question. if this airplane...

Shut down. is there a scenario you can think of where that might happen. >> there are certainly all kinds of possibilities out there but as virtually every single previous guest that you have had on here has stated, unless we can actually get to that aircraft and verify it based upon the data reportings and every other bit of information, thats just another hypothesis. certainly, there is a scenario in which they could be turned off. >> i want to shoot down another theory, if you will. the one t...

Fire because the plane, all of the alarms would go off, the fire suppress sors would be goi off and they would be trying to get it to the nearest airport, whether its a vietnam airport or malaysian airport. they would not be flying halfway around the indian ocean and there was a fire. >> so youre still working under the assumption that there was a person or persons that caused this, not a mechanical failure? >> even there, if the batteries went off, if there was a fire and if the warnings didnt ...

>> or foul play. >> or suicide. >> yeah, tom, go ahead. >> yes, i would agree with that. >> the notion of catastrophic mechanical failure less likely, the notion na someone deliberately turned off the transponders and directed this plane in this direction for whatever reason more likely? >> yes, and that requires two things to be true. is one that, you know, it was deliberately turned the direction it was turned and deliberately continued to fly, which would indicate that it didnt explode over t...

Plane exactly like this. >> if you have an unrestricted gps signal, you can just make up your own approach and fly it right to the runway with an auto landing. you can fly it and land in the dark if it was a fairly big strip of concrete and no facilities on the ground whatsoever. theyre everywhere in the world. they were used for training during past wars and all that sort of thing. i used to fly flight instruct out of a tiny airport near gainesville, florida, and it was 7500 feet of concrete an...

Check your local listings. >> theres been a lot of talk in the last week about the missing malaysian airlines plane and whether it could have flown if somebody took over the controls. where it might have gone. investigators are reportedly now focusing on one potential flight path and they have good reasons for that. that would take it over one of the most isolated places on all oearth team. land chain said to be so primitive that the people who live there have killed intruders. the flight path s...