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At first, flight 370 was just delayed. then missing, then feared crashed. but a fourth idea started to take hold within 24 hours of takeoff that this plane had been hijacked. our chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has been tracking that story from washington. >> reporter: megyn, within hours of the jets disappearance, the authorities focused on two passengers purchasing tickets through an iranian man. intelligence officials emphasize that while the mens profiles were run through...

At first, flight 370 was just delayed. then missing, then feared crashed. but a fourth idea started to take hold within 24 hours of takeoff that this plane had been hijacked. our chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has been tracking that story from washington. >> reporter: megyn, within hours of the jets disappearance, the authorities focused on two passengers purchasing tickets through an iranian man. intelligence officials emphasize that while the mens profiles were run through...

At first flight 370 was just delayed. then missing issues then feared crashed. a fourth idea started to take hold within 24 hours of takeoff, that it was hijacked. our chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has been tracking that part of the story from washington. >> reporter: within hours of the jets disappearance, investigators focused on two passengers who used stolen passports to board flight 370. they purchased the tickets through an iranian middle man. >> hes iranian. >> repor...

Can the ukraine troops stand up against ukraine? >> i would not take camerons statement as strong. there is no much we could be doing in terms of ramping up the sanctions. the ukrainians came to us asking for military defense and we denied them. we should provide them with flight training, and u.s. aircraft landing there providing them assistance. there is much we can do to demonstrate our resolve to the ukrainians >> so you are saying give more monetary support to ukraine. what about deeper san...

This is. they can send information. >> they cack. airliners and military aircraft have engine health monitoring systems like this. now, for example, i flew an airplane during flight training that had a rolls-royce engine, the same -- the company that moves the 777s engines, and the plane i flew also had an engine health monitoring system that would gather information during flight, and then once we landed the information was looked at by pointers -- maintainers. heres a picture of the monitoring...

Interviewing the screw former tsa officials say that investigators will scrub the passenger manifest for anyone with flight training and will comb through the cargo records for anything that seems suspicious. >> i think one of the things that has not yet been investigated is what cargo was aboard this aircraft. its possible that there was some illicit cargo that somebody wanted to get from point a to point b for nefarious reasons. >> as the search continues, officials in the united states say ca...

Their own field can start to answer those questions. >> chris has taken an interesting approach. he sells the equipment, and then lets his customers tell him how to use it. >> all you can do is get it out there, and then listen to the customers. >> and what does chris hope to hear? he says hes listening for the newest commercial applications, those investors are discovering. >> lady gaga wanted to have a dress that would basically fly her around, so i was asked to be part of that team. >> gus ca...

Of things that could go wrong in the ejection, thats what well be looking at in the future. >> you had to practice ejections, im assuming during the course of your training. describe that. >> you actually never practice ejecting. you do it in a simulator. it didnt give you all the effects of what ejection is actually like. you pull the handle so that you have kind of gone through that motion before, so that its something thats not unusual if you ever have to actually eject. but fortunately, i ne...

Questions, though, because this is becoming a mystery for authorities. they know theres been some crime in the area, they know there was a break-in, they believe on the same block very recent to this and yet this doesnt look like a break-in. and it leaves them baffled. >> no. >> what do you make of that? >> none of his belongings were disturbed as they already released in the news but as far as i know theres been nothing new thats been updated. >> how did you hear about this? >> i got a phone ca...

At a specific time and place to have a firm fix on exactly what you should be doing to maintain safe flight, and its a category within the investigation area that has kind of grown up through the years. this is a very important thing. that, plus, something else that mary has mentioned earlier in terms of the crew coordination, which im really concerned about. why was there no tarmac of the pilot now flying that, hey, were too slow or were too low or were too anything else? there was no complaint...