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Flight 370 is a criminal investigation. focusing in two vast corridors. expanding two continents, pair of oceans and several seas. dictated by the final satellite ping that hit 7 1/2 hours after takeoff. the criminal aspect is based on investigators belief the flight was taken off course deliberately. the pentagon now says that the u.s. military is about to cut back participation in the search and returning it to its normal navy operations. lots of developments happening over the weekend. we hav...

The sea and move to the north near kazakhstan border and indonesia into the southern i d indian ocean. well see have to see if the leads are any closer on day eight. that continues to be the hope. >> certainly for the families waiting to get some news of what happened to the passengers. alexandra fields, thank you so much. >> the fate of the passengers, theres so many involved in the affairs of this who are thinking about the families of these men and women. >> theres no answer at all. its the a...

Talking people other than flight engineers, ground engineers, they would know how to do this sort of thing. pilots have a certain knowledge of it. as the hijack goes, i really cant say how sophisticated they are. we know that 9/11, the degree of sophistication, by hijackers have increased enormously. that the pilots have been trained to fly and crews basically use the aircraft as a missile, basically, as they have, in this case, you know, a trained pilot could have done this action as been sugge...

Determine through their identification and documents used to travel which might be false, not just the two iranians but others who might not have used true names and their passports are still stolen and theyre trying to track every person down and verify who they are. also you would have to check the caterer, the house cleaning people, the mechanics that work on that flight because they could possibly hide a weapon, you know, either in the bathroom or understand the seat where the life vests are...

Original flight plan. >> reporter: all right, the prime minister there making it very clear. i can tell you, that police were at the compound where the pilots live. you know, like a housing subdivision. they will were in substantial numbers. they have blocked off the street leading to one of the homes. one of the pilots has had about 25,000 hours of experience. hes in -- i believe hes in his 50s. theres a 29-year-old pilot that was the first mate. he is in his late 20s. both mens records will be...

Out, into water, have we lost, or have searchers lost any momentum if indeed its in the south indian ocean, all the days spent in the south china sea, has that been lost, have we lost any momentum? >> possibly, if youre referring to the search in the local area? >> yes. >> but honestly, its not terribly surprising -- its unfortunate, but not terribly surprising that debris or some evidence of a crash, if thats what happened, hasnt been found yet. as just pointed out its a huge area. and some peo...

Now, they are saying they changed their line a little bit. it was deliberately, some would say, trying to evade the radar. trying to confuse people. now, one of the main communications systems, it sends back all the electronic data about the plane, was disabled right after takeoff. it was still flying over the malay peninsula makes its way towards beijing. less than an hour later when the plane moved from malaysian airspace to vietnam airspace, that is when the transponder was turned off and it ...

Minister says that they want more comprehensive and accurate information. heres what im having a difficult time reconciling. the prime minister will not go as far as to say this is a hijacking. however, he has confirmed that its consistent with someone taking deliberate action on the plane. so whether that is a hijacker who is a passenger, a crew member or the pilot, when you take a plane off its ended course and veer it off to some other country or some other place, isnt that by definition a hi...

They do give them briefings together. and i think that solidarity is helping them form their own informal support groups. and i certainly do hope that theyre putting grief counselors throughout, even though we dont know whats going on, to just allow them to communicate. to just allow them be still if they need to. but to know that someone is there, and some way, some way, trying to keep hope alive until we find out what happens here. >> jeff gardere, great advice. thank you so much. >> my pleasu...

Earthquakes and shifts that happen on any given day on the water? >> you know, this is such an incredib incredible thirst for information. a critical need to find out what happened, all sorts of theories are being explored, as each new one comes to hand, people want to follow it to take it to its conclusion. if you look at the overall trend of the information, little by little, the pattern is shifting out towards the west. and if the aircraft is out on that deep water, then certainly, there are ...