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These things, what do kwlyou cer on? >> you have a problem until you know what occurred in the cockpit or who caused it to occur. even if you have the best ex pert, only the pilots would be knowledgeable enough in a case like this to physically ka change the direction using the flight management system and computer. that may be true. maybe only the captain and co-pilot were in the cockpit to do that. what if theyre holding a flight attendant with a knife to her throat and said turn this plane or...

Good heavens, why do we only know about it now? >> so much information is not shared. its quite shocking. tom foreman, thanks to you. i want to bring in former inspector general and attorney for accident traffic victims. good morning mary. >> good morning. lets talk about this. the thai air force says it was tracking the normal flight pattern until 1:22 in the morning saturday and then lost the signal. minutes later, the thai air force picks up the unknown aircraft heading roughly back toward ku...

Looking for it. >> they apparently flew over malaysia. a big chunk of populated malaysia and nobody scrambled jets or did anything. >> but the malaysians saw it on the radar. we had the radar. maybe they didnt notice and focus on what it was. but you know, again, this entire investigation characterized by shifting and sketchy evidence and like this business that were hearing it went to different altitudes, 45,000 feet which is a couple thousand feet higher than its certified to nye at. where did...

Indicates, it did go south and to the west. bill: okay. >> and not north. not north but south. that is, that is why our navy is in the indian ocean. that is why we have jets in the indian ocean and quite frankly the malaysian government, the they have better cooperation from a military standpoint in trying to find this aircraft. bill: youre a former federal prosecutor and you have talked about the motivation and the intent because that is what you look at first, right? and when you think about t...

The question in who was behind that. there are a lot of warning signs along the way. the fact the trans ponder was turned off, the flight pattern changed abruptly. we have two iranians with stolen passport thats were not checked with interpol which we would have done in this country. one-way tickets bought with cash that the hijackers do, there are a lot of questions raised. one thing is very clear, chris. this was an intentional, deliberate act that unfortunately probably killed 239 people. >> ...

The question in who was behind that. there are a lot of warning signs along the way. the fact the trans ponder was turned off, the flight pattern changed abruptly. we have two iranians with stolen passport thats were not checked with interpol which we would have done in this country. one-way tickets bought with cash that the hijackers do, there are a lot of questions raised. one thing is very clear, chris. this was an intentional, deliberate act that unfortunately probably killed 239 people. >> ...

Well ask retired colonel dan hampton. >> good morning, thank you for having me back. >> you say this is unforgivable the way the malaysian officials have handled this. it has taken a week essentially to go into the pilots home. >> yeah, it would have occurred, i think, to anybody else running this investigation that when the likelihood that this was a catastrophic failure of some kind had passed, that the next thing you do is you try to i.d. the person responsible, because if you know who it is,...

Altitudes in how that team of pilots. we dont know plane going up and down. im divided here. there could have been inability by the pilots, all those flying the plane to then it went down or there could have been a struggle. if that is the case. then i have five or six theories as to what would have been the terrorist case. we dont have the evidence now. >> hank, listening to sort of the facts that have been disclosed by the "new york times" today, climbing to 45,000 feet above its service limit...

>> well, this new information is kind of going pack to what i said to you last night. remember i said theres three factors, the airplane, the crew talking about the pilots and an outside force intervening. remember i said to you that when you program the fms, which is the flight management system to make a flight, its going to fly that flight unless some human being changes that flight pattern. so when you lost the transponder, which last night i told you specifically that somebody turned it off...

All right, were back now with the fox news alert. were back with shepard smith. let me ask you, when greg mentioned the payne stewart plane, that had a fixed -- the reason it kept flying is it had a flight plan and it kept going, and eventually, it ran out of fuel and crashed. in this case, the flight plan obviously was not followed. somebody or something had to alter the flight plan, correct? >> thats why this idea, this is where they lost contact, after apparently climbing at the end. then it ...