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>> if youre saying that this information was transmitted every hour or so, how do you get -- how do they know it went from 45,000 to 23,000? >> i think i have an answer for that. >> okay. >> its the handshake that lets them know that the plane is still flying. and based on what they know about the trajectory, they use military radar and civilian radar to figure out, okay, if this plane was flying in this direction, which of these pings with no identification means anything? right? they lock into...

Disappeared in after from can a a few years back joseph padilla we never found that 727. >> that was one of the more bizarre cases he was shuttling diesel fuel to diamond minds. he had lots of debt. the plane just kind of took off out in the middle of the night and no one ever saw it again. but it wasnt a passenger airline. they had a flight plan and they didnt actually get clearance from the airport. so its very different than this case. >> and so this is -- are there any other huge passenger p...

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 disappearing. we assume theyre being tracke...

Malaysia. it may not have been the missing plane. the steady stream of inconsistent and conflicting information has generated arranger abhong the families of the missing. the video made public today showed some of them throwing bottles at airline officials. most of the missing are from china, asked whether the malaysian military was hiding anything on purpose. today also brought the release of a letter from an oil rig worker who claims he saw the plane burning at high altitude when his rig was o...

Kuala lumpur. at this hour, theres no confirmation from the chinese government or anyone else that these images are wreckage from the missing jetliner. senior u.s. defense tell nbc news they have no information on the chinese satellite imagery. malaysian authorities continue to offer conflicting and confusing information as anguished families of the missing try to hold out hope. last night we reported that malaysias air force chief told a newspaper that military radar had picked up the flight of...

These images are wreckage from the missing jetliner. senior u.s. defense tell nbc news they have no information on the chinese satellite imagery. malaysian authorities continue to offer conflicting and confusing information as anguished families of the missing try to hold out hope. last night we reported that malaysias air force chief told a newspaper that military radar had picked up the flight off the western coast of malaysia, suggesting the flight had taken a sharp left, radically veering of...

Tip of vietnam east of malaysia. the location is not far from the scheduled flight path of the missing boeing 777 airliner, which was headed from kuala kuala lumpur to beijing. but its in the opposite direction from the turn the ma lag malasian military said they had detected on radar. the defense minister said tonight, there is only confusion if you want to see confusion. yes, he actually said that. nbcs tom costello has more on the new photos. >> lawrence, good evening. this could prove to be ...

The area over the straight west of malaysia. we were asking questions like why here? this is not the scheduled flight path for the plane. they said look, we have to investigate every possibility and then today we are hearing that it could be further out. the interesting thing is if they are extending the search to the indian ocean and the sea perhaps, perhaps these various reports and experts coming out saying did the flight continue for hours on end? perhaps that may be true. they claim to refu...

Happening now in the "newsroom," the mystery of flight 370 deepens. >> trust me when i say we will not give up. >> overnight search crews come up empty. this turned out to be nothing. >> it was in the flight path 140 miles from where the planes transponder went silent. >> is the search back to square one? >> why have you got such limited knowledge as to what happened to flight 370? >> new reports just coming out claiming the flight was still in the air some four hours longer than previously thou...

Flight path. what do you make of that? >> we are just looking at that right now. it looks from an initial look at the size, if those are as big of chunks that they are in those initial images, its something that our radars would pretty easily pick up. so we are looking at that right now. we are in plan development at this stage. a couple initial plans, were loosh looking at where to move our destroyers and looking at bringing in a second search aircraft called a p 8 poseidon into the theater. i ...