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What are the indications, at least based upon what we know so far? can we make any conclusions? >> wolf, i think anybodys ideas are absolute speculation. my thinking at this point would be that there was some foul play perhaps involved with this. if you had had something like an exclusive decompression, thats something, by the way, that pilots train for on a regular basis when you go into a simulator. there would have been time to alert somebody, you would have had a radar signature. the same th...

Determine for the plane. it is involved in a multi national search going on. what caused the plane to actually vanish? that is still baffling. three possible causes are being looked at mechanical failure, pilot error or terrorism. because no debris has been found along the flight path for now some investigators say the plane likely disintegrated from the air. search teams would see a concentrateded debris field. malaysian air says the flight made a you turn but made no routine distress call. >> ...

They looked like they could have come from a plane. it was too late to get to them and identify them properly. where these objects were fits in with the flight path of the plane about 80 kilometers or so. that is going to be a focus today. interpol tweeted saying they are looking at additional suspects passports of passengers on that flight. we know that two were stolen and used fraudulently and on the list of stolen passports. no connection made when the passengers using those boarded so maybe ...

Safely. that is your job. being in a simulator is throwing as much as they can to you and show you the characteristics of an aircraft when things are not going right. whether it is hydrawlic or landing year. it teaches you the characteristics of the airplane and how to handle the situation. >> captain, can you talk to me about what can happen at 37,000 feet if something goes down quickly? >> i am curous to know what impact it might hit the water at? >> well, if you, airports dont yscow. i think ...

Pretty good idea where the plane is. >> the malaysia airlines v.p. of operations control told anderson cooper show a little while ago at the moment we have no idea where this aircraft is right now. there are internet rumors completely unconfirmed, some suggesting it may have landed somewhere in vietnamese land and has suffered an electrical fault. that might be completely bogus. but is it possible that a plane could lose all contact with its airline and yet still be able to land without electric...

Board still continuing to arrive here in beijing, and 120 family members of people on board are now at the hotel. there were 154 chinese nationals in all, and malaysian airlines is saying that one of the key priorities is obviously looking after the families and offering whatever they can, and whatever help they can. and also in the cam pew kampualo there is a search still under way, but still no definite evidence other than there is a oil slick in the region that was on the flight path of the p...

Crew. >> four on board were americans. one an infant. all countries in the possible flight path were performing radio and communication searches looking for a signal. we will keep you updated on this developing story. first, back to "lock up." due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. behind the walls of hackensacks bergen county jail, tensions continue to rise in one of the female housing units. >> we only have about 45 to 50

Several miles of oil slicks have been spotted on the gulf of thailand on the general flight path that jet was on before it disappeared. and something unusual has officials concerned. two people whose names were on the passenger manifest were not on the plane at all. they say their passports were stolen months or years ago. that means two people were on the plane with passports not issued to them. while we wait for word from the airline, we want to talk about this stolen passport concern. for tha...

That took out the radios and the tra transponder, mind you, and a transponder is what allows ground control to track an airplane. you would have thought that would be a remote possibility as well. but now it is daylight there in the south pacific. southeast asia, and they know what the intended flight path was. theyre not going to be waiting too long to go along that intended flight path. and if you had had an airplane and people in life rafts, you would think that they would have been seen pret...

>> i have seen a little bit of light precipitation over south and central china, reports of that. but that is well below the flight level. and skies were clear with light winds, the temperature, 26 degrees celsius, which is about 26 degrees, there is no bad weather that i can see for the flight path on the malaysian plane. the flight reached 32,000 feet which is expected if youre two and a half hours into the flight. so there is nothing that i can see on radar or on any other weather sources tha...