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Communicate back to the ground when the fuel -- the aircraft ran out of fuel and it crashed. >> miles, why does that not convince you? >> well, in the case of helios first of all, there were radio calls indicating there was difficulty before they lost consciousness. secondly why the route changes? if in fact this was the ghost plane scenario in theory it would have flied the pre-programmed route to beijing. why would it have made that securitious route to the south? im sure you can come up with ...

Appear to be terrorist. whats your best judge of what happened? they are not specialists on what happens to airplanes in cockpits. i dont blame the intelligence committee for doing the assessment but be careful. >> you are an aviation guy. when you see the report what do you think? they are things that have never been explained. why certain electronics were shut off when they were. >> i want to thank phil for that assessment. thats what i have been fighting for the last two days on the report. i...

To accept that and understand that, but i do believe there will be a time where they will stop the search. >> cnns richard quest has been analyzing this report, looking through it, and he indicates there was a massive failure between civilian and military radar and air traffic control. is that your analysis as well? >> joe, that is so critical. richard hit it right on the head with that, because that 17-minute period in which the aircraft had been handed off from one control area to the other, i...

Tweets. david soucie, nick murphy says what is the purpose of flying this plane through several course changes until it ran out of fuel? >> if i knew that i would know a lot more than i know now. i cant imagine a purpose. i did come up with something recently. we started thinking about what is the purpose of flying around that channel? what if it was to avoid a populated area. we went tightright to the nefarious intent. but to go to the maintenance base coming around there, and realize there was...

The purpose of flying this plane through several course changes until it ran out of fuel? >> if i knew that, id know a lot more than i know now. i cant imagine what purpose it would be. i did come up with something recently, we started thinking what would be the purpose of flying up around that channel. what if it was to avoid the airplane crashing into a populated area. im not sure weve discuss thad too much. because we went right to the nefarious event. but if that aircraft, to go to their mai...

Theory of the lithium batteries or a mechanical failure, the pilot would have been turning and and going to subang near kuala lumpur. thats their maintenance base. if the severity of the event, if he underestimated the severity of the event, geez, were not going to make it where were headed to beijing, lets turn around and go back to the mate nance base. theyre not going to go back to kuala lumpur if theyre not thinking its a severe emergency. >> would that not have necessitated a mayday call or...

See them anytime soon. >> david soucie, you have some interesting new information you got i think from an engineer, is that right? >> yeah, i did. i talked to one of the lead auditors down there who worked for the maintenance base that took care of these aircraft. he loose worked as a lead auditor at malaysia and went into their facilities and revealed to me a few things about the black boxes i wanted to talk about that. because the batteries for those black boxes are tested on the sea checks ev...

The acars was normal. im not convinced that the transponders were turned off. i think its possible they just didnt receive the request to send the information that far away from the radar station. so lets take that off the table for just a second. now the aircraft drops to 12,000 feet and makes a turn. the only airport i can see it may have been attempting to get to which would make sense is paneng. a maintenance base for malaysia air. a place where if i had a problem with an aircraft thats wher...

Boxes are modernized to send information, the search crews will be forced to hunt for those black boxes first. and, jim, i asked him when you get malaysia airlines jets, are they poorly maintained? he said there are some airlines around the globe that do not take as good care as other airlines, but malaysia airlines is not one of them. he says not only are they adamant about their maintenance, they overdo it. jim? >> victor blackwell, thanks very much. 19 full days have ticked by but time is s...

Its like when i have on star. you say i signed up for the service, so you should have found me. its not their responsibility. they are not in the business of finding airplanes. they are in the business of receiving data from the aircraft to forward on to the maintenance base of the airline and the manufacturer. arthel: when you hear the news this morning which is no news, that nothing has been discovered overnight. what do you make of the status of the search? >> i think with the debreeze most r...