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Until and unless they recover the flight data recorders, theyre not going to know the real answers or what happened inside the cockpit. >> you talk about food poisoning. you talk about other things. maybe there were lithium batteries that knocked the pilots into unconsciousness. all right, jim clancy, thanks so much. >> fire, mechanical problem. its all possibilities and so little evidence. lets bring in indra petersons. what we do know is what the weather in the search area looks like. >> right...

Which got the information from the plane, which is not communicating from anyone, but got interrogation from the planes acars system, so they can pin point its in the south indian ocean and know theres no chance it went to land anywhere. >> what would make it go south, what would make it make that turn? >> yeah, and that is just nobody can guess, really. but i do think that enough passed digging into the pilot and copilot, its slow work and will need to go on with that, but i wonder if everyone ...

Data now shows more conclusively or probably whatever the terms are that this is at the bottom of the indian ocean or do you want to see more? as an investigator i always want to see more. investigators use tried and true methodologies and procedures. thats based on years and years of experience and crashes and investigating these. but we are always looking for new ways to hone our skills to improve and expedite this process. so, i would always like to see more and thats going to continue on wit...

Disclosing it, does that now pique your interest as a possibility of what went on here. >> not as much at this point in time. i have trouble getting around the conversation of the pilots. sothat this sequence this started sometime before that calm communication. >> meaning at probably 1:07. this conversation was at 1:19. all right. good night. but at 1:o07 the acar system was turned off. the communication system. >> right, right, right. >> is that what catches your attention? >> yeah. absolutely...

Pings and potential sighting in the worst possible ocean in the world. >> let me weigh you in. should we know more at this point? could we know more? >> i think we could. michael brought up a good point. with air france we were getting data that was being downloaded almost continuously. so even though we never got all of the flight and of course it crashed and took us two years to get the black boxes to fill in the rest of the storyline. we were able to at least examine that information that was...

Pilots particularly 50-year-old zaharie ahmad shah who owned a flight simulator at his house and had ties to malaysian radicalism. >> good morning. >> what do you think happened? >> well, in the beginning i thought if we have to look at the evidence that we actually have,ç thats the activity of the airplane, the way it climbed up over 45,000 feet and then went down radically. that doesnt sound like an airplane problem. i cant imagine what kind of an airplane, maintenance problem, mechanical pr...

Unique circumstances that we have in this situation. >> greg feith, what stands out as a possible indication of what happened, the most clear signal? >> well, mika, its evident that, you know, early on when the flight track changed, as soon as that airplane diverted from its track towards beijing, there was something more than just some sort of mechanical problem. there was enough data for us to know that that airplane was intentionally turned and it went on a different flight track and now affi...

Didnt mess around, they didnt go here, anywhere. hijackers know where they have to go and they have gps. it is easy to understand, easier than the plane, and they get there. the erratic flying does not point to me the hijacking. >> what does it point to? >> a mechanical problem, either hypoxia, a loss of steering capability like japan airlines. or a situation like stewart, where the pilots are no longer flying if youre just all over the place. but the second part of the news that came out today ...

Didnt mess around, they didnt go here, anywhere. hijackers know where they have to go and they have gps. it is easy to understand, easier than the plane, and they get there. the erratic flying does not point to me the hijacking. >> what does it point to? >> a mechanical problem, either hypoxia, a loss of steering capability like japan airlines. or a situation like stewart, where the pilots are no longer flying if youre just all over the place. but the second part of the news that came out today ...

But add some caveats, this san investigation. they have a number of clues. theyre trying to connect those clues as best they can. theyve had clues, for instance yesterday those satellite images that turned out to be a false lead. but what gives them confidence is they have more than one clue that leads in the direction here. really one of the key ones is that radar data. theyve had more time to analyze that radar data to get more confidence that this is the heading the plane was on when they los...