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Thailand and china there is no going under those radars. >> this batteries on board, catching fiemplt i will give this to jeff wise. heres what lori say. she says huge question, mark for me is the lithium batteries on board. could that be a cause of explosion and crash, huge question mark for me. could that be the cause? jeff wise? >> theoretically that could be the cause. fires can arise from a number of causes have havent been any indication cans. theres no evidence for a fire. there werent an...

Were back now. and i want to know what questions my experts have. so lets go through it now. floyd, what questions do you have? >> well, i think basically my general question is, was there a structural mechanical electrical failure of that aircraft? a more specific question is, is there an explanation for that transponder being turned off other than act by a pilot? >> jeff wise? >> where is the rest of the data? >> dr. judy ho? >> i want to know what type of psychological evaluation they went un...

They still, even to this day, day 19, still holding on to hope that their family members are somewhere alive. don? >> sarah, thank you. and thank you to all of our correspondents. a number of new developments to get to tonight. i want to see what my experts have to say. joining me now is richard quest. geoffrey thomas, editor in chief of airlineratings.com. floyd wise and a principal at the wiser in law firm in chicago. jeff wise, author of "extreme fear." jim tillman, retired pilot. mary schiav...

Field. its a moving target, constantly shifting and changing. >> if the weather would help. theyve had more resources than theyve had to bear yet. six ships still are out there. but, again, theyre having a hard time because of the weather situation. very, very difficult. now, jeff, i know youve been doing a lot of analysis on this partial handshake again that went from malaysia air flight 370 to the inmarsat satellite. it was the last bit of communication as the plane was flying towards where th...

Military. first satellite data that went out when the prime minister of australia announced the initial finding of debris based on satellite information, that was with based on u.s. satellite information. >> yeah. jeff wise, heres what patrick says. are 3 million pairs of crowd sourcers given access to help to search near australia? why rely on the planes and ships only. given the vastness of the search area would it be useful to have more people scrutinizing the images? >> it is good in theory....

Search planes are grounded until further notice. i want to focus on the pictures especially the one 300 possible shiny objects. joining us is jeff wise. nice to have you on. you are a science journalist and many of us are reading your pieces to see what you are seeing here. out of the gate, you look at the pictures and the clusters, if you will, of the possible debris fields, what do you see? >> when you look at it, its hard to recognize something that looks really airplane-like. you remember ai...

These satellite images taken from the french satellite. the pictures were taken sunday, march 23rd. they show 122 pieces of possible debris ranging in size all the way up till about 70 feet clumped together in a relatively small area. what do you make of this? >> well, i think certainly this is very compelling. this is probably the first piece of evidence that we have that really starts to lend credibility to possibly that were finding some of the debris field. but cautious on tow mission would ...

May be a potential debris field. i agree that that larger piece of metal that might be floating could very possibly be the wing. it had been out of fuel. it has air tanks in it that would allow it to float. the orange pieces definitely could be pieces of life jackets and other debris from the aircraft. so this is a good sign. >> all right, jeff. this picture was taken on march 23rd which was sunday. today is tuesday. there is another bit of new information we just got in moments ago that the sea...

Facts before going to the public. and the malaysian prime minister, deciding the fate of 230 people was complete. i think that was a brave thing to do. >> and perception matters in a courtroom, and especially in the u.s., dealing with juries. jeff wise, do you think that -- how do you think that malaysian airlines has handled the investigation? >> well, the investigation the handled by the government. but i think there was very bad optics for them to release the information the way they did. the...

To any possible one theory about how this flight may have ended? >> no, actually, it doesnt. it really doesnt help us at all other than just tell us that if these are airplane parts, obviously the airplane went in the water, but it doesnt tell us how it ended up in the water or if it went in under control versus out of control. so, still a long ways from being able to make that type of determination. >> that, of course, is even if these objects are ever found and if they are known to be connecte...