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The race was on for answer inside the black box beneath the sea. >> the world is waiting for the soviet union to tell truth. >> reporter: the truth ended up being that the pilots had set their auto pilot but it failed, taking them directly into soviet air space. looking at the erratic flight path of malaysia flight 370, that scenario seems unlikely. but we may never know for sure. randi kaye, cnn. >> it also makes us take a very long time before we do know. joining me now avenuiation expert john...

Lot of contact. it was on the same flight path through the straights. that is why that search in the western part of malaysia is getting so much bigger. the question is, how high was that plane flying when it was last reported to be about 200 miles northwest of the coast? it was high. it could have been flying for another couple of hours and could be way out into indian territorial waters. they could be facing weeks before they get some sort of understanding of where that plane went down. >> hea...

Clearly. the faa told us what was going on. we had an idea of the flight path and all of the members along the flight path were saying is this going to crash into my city or town. there was discussion to encourage the military to take action to get the aircraft out of the air. but the faa let it run out of gas. we were able to track the stuart plane from takeoff until it crashed. for this aircraft, we have no idea what happens. the malaysia military is saying they have a track, but they dont kno...

Would shut off either a cataclysmic event or somebody did it on purpose. the transponders which transmit at tour altitude speed. they havent found any debris in the area where the transponders were shut off, so that would suggest potentially somebody did that on purpose. >> greg, do you want to pick up on that, please? >> absolutely. tom brings up a good point. if there was an explosive decompression. lets say a window blew out or a door blew out and material was actually sucked out of the aircr...

Thing? do you have something down inside you that says this is probably what happened? >> you know, at this point, i think any idea, even if its crazy, may not be a bad idea because, as you know, weve tried for what is it, five, six days now, none of the elt rz talking to us.unication from the aircraft. theres no debris field anywhere. so, you know, theres been some unconfirmed reports that the aircraft has been seen some other place. so obviously theyre not calling me and asking me where to loo...

Unknown, and what is fueling the speculation right now. because of these latest conflicts reporting that the flight was hundreds of miles away. hundreds of miles. what does that mean? that means time? that means intention? what does the flight path tell us? then we have malaysian officials denying that and expanding the search area to the rege wherein its now theorized to be in the strait of malacca which sounds exotic but it happens to be probably the most traveled shipping route in that part o...

Ntsb. his criticism of the malaysians is far tamer than congressman peter kings. >> so far they seem to have dropped the ball at every level. i hate to be the monday morning quarterback, but appears theyve done nothing right so far. >> reporter: the search area has been a point of contention. day one officials had the search area here in the gulf of thailand. then they expanded it over land and into the strait of malacca. it covers 27,000 nautical miles. critics say the search area should be sma...

The silkair story the suicide as ruled by the ntsb. look, its hard at this point to speculate. everybody is speak late. we have this debris field that could change the view of what happened here because it was essentially on the flight path although not exactly. do you think the case were looking at now could possibly have been a pilot >> every accident we approach and look at all the factors. and if this airplane suddenly came down and that piece of debris tells us thought came down in that are...

They show what may be three large pieces of a missing boeing 777 extended range in the water. the coordinates of the satellite photos are in line with the jets original flight path and pretty much spot on to the location where investigators say the planes transponder which is what broadcasts its location stopped operating. investigators are scrambling to try to analyze these photos and determine if this is the crash site. its now daylight in asia and well have ships going right in there to look ...

Taking them directly into soviet air space. looking at the erratic flight path of malaysia flight 370, that scenario seems unlikely. but we may never know for sure. randi kaye, cnn. >> it also makes us take a very long time before we do know. joining me now avenuiation expert john hansman professor of aeronautics and astronaut ics at myth. what did aviation experts learn from that disaster, that incident that could be applied to this search? >> it was a little bit of a different situation becaus...