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Captain shah for any wrongdoing. as an average student in school he would not have been able to master mind such a plot. nobody knows why the plane lost contact. some theorize there could have been a massive electrical problem, a cockpit fire or a cabin fire turning it into a ghost plane. >> why isnt hasnt shown up yet, that is the true mystery of it. if it had crashed in the way we think it did, to hit the water and break up into pieces there would be pieces somewhere. >> aviation analyst jeff ...

A ghost plane. we will go back to those ideas and special coverage for the mystery of flight 370 and why perhaps theyre not necessarily being discounted. (music) defiance is in our bones. defiance never grows old. citracal maximum. calcium citrate plus d.

Pings to determine whether it was a great circle route, which would mean that the way points were punched in and the pilots selected that route or more of a ghost plane. also, a fire in 2011, a flash fire in the cockpit of egyptair flight 667 and the question is, could this have been the scenario? you know, an oil field worker actually saw a fire above in the sky and it happened so quickly, theres no possible way of getting any communications in there. so, theres lots and lots that the malaysian...

You level off. you apparently have figured out its not that severe and you get it on automatic pilot or you put it on automatic pilot and youre overcome by smoke or lack of oxygen. you pass out, passengers pass out. airplane has plenty of fuel, on a predetermined course and it will now fly for hours until it runs out of fuel. so thats the scenario. we dont know if it really happened that way, but many speculate it could have. >> miles obrian, though, the plane did make several turns. so would th...

To 10,000 feet and if they were overcome, the plane would continue on that heading. what we see from the data that was released today are two additional turns. two additional turns. one tend sends them up to the northwest, the other to the area where were searching. so in the heat of that battle, as it were, were they have put in extra wait points? it didnt take him to an airport that was close by, so unfortunately, thats where this theory tends to fall down. there must have been something else ...

Australian naval vessel has a goal. remember we were telling you about the debris on monday. debris spotted by an australian plane. green or gray or orange. they dropped a beacon. this australiaen naval vessel now knows it has a place to go. its going to try to find that debris, pull it out and bring it back for those families. the problem is because of all the weather yesterday theyre not sure if that beacon is next to that debris or not. so they are steaming to that area and theyre going to tr...

This is incredibly rather to have a public demonstration like this on the streets of beijing. david mckenzie is there on the streets there tonight. kyung lah is in perth. kyung, what kind of aircraft are up in the air right now and how are conditions in the search area? >> reporter: we can actually hear the turbo props of a p 3 orion right behind me. it is going to take off shortly. the australian military says that representing a number of other countries all zooming to this area right now. its...

They were shouting out they wanted evidence, answers, closure, pointing at the malaysian government for a lack of information. also many of them angry that they got this information in text messages that the plane had gone down, often in english which they couldnt understand. so you can really see the sense of this pressure cooker here in china with these families just wanting news, wanting some kind of closure, anderson. >> did malaysian officials, anybody from the embassy actually talk to the ...

Example what would have happened. >> martin savidge, if a plane runs out of fuel as is believed happened here, how does a plane this size enter the water? are there different scenarios? is it a glide down? one engine loses power before the next? >> reporter: right. these are things weve been trying to simulate. put it into like neutral if you will and well sort of show you. we cant shut the engines off. the simulator doesnt allow that. it would do all sorts of computer problems. but we have trie...

Your instrument panel will momentarily go blank when youre using it, but that could be a surge situation there. >> richard, are we any closer to understanding, are investigators any closer to understanding whether or not the plane was on autopilot or annual control, given the turns we now know the aircraft made? >> no, were not. we know the first turn, then the west turn, then theres the turn, the long turn that takes it down into the south indian ocean. clearly, no pilot is going to be standing...