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You because you both are professional pilots, you both are experienced, you both have been at the helm of these types of jet liners. we wanted to find out where you sit on some of these things. so colonel field, lets start with you. what is your take, that it was someone or something that doomed thisly if the? >> well, i havent ruled out mechanical failure of some sort entirely but thats only about 10%. i think most of the evidence that we can -- we can believe right now, and theres a plethora o...

Them shifting the search zone. the australians are driving that certainly in their waters near the indian ocean, they are moving it more southwestsome this about coordinating data from what they heard about the thai radar exposure or how do we explain it? >> well, lets hope thats what it s hope they have been able to continue the smooth the data and get better data points. the first set of points was literally a fourth of the globe. now they have refined it, hopefully that its that and we have -...

You can go back and retrieve this flight and see how it flew, what flew, and look at it without your hands on the wheel and see what it is that you did before. that does get stored. >> like any other data on hard drive. jay, in terms of using a simulator, how often do people delete, why do they delete? is there a needle leet? >> there is no need to defeel leath it. the files are saved when you intentionally save them. so, if they had files that they want toddle leet, they would have saved those ...

Maine up there a half an inch of rain, see it throughout the day, even through tonight. again, your last day, guys, hanging on tight. keep in mind the winds, these guys gusting up, talking about midwest and eventually in through tomorrow, start to see some of the strong winds but one day, we can handle this, right? one day, tomorrow, looks so good. we can all smile. except for you. grimace. >> thats right r >> be just like a straight-line smile. as good as you get. >> thanks. >> sure. take a b...

>> any information would help. last thing thats important to do here, the big disclosure from officials in malaysia, not necessarily new information but new information they figured sought that 12 minutes before the co-pilot said "all right, good night" they inputted data for this additional waypoint. is that something that would be done and not communicated ordinarily, jay? >> well, typically, the flight management computer would be loaded with the complete trip from start to finish. and so for...

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Authorities overwhelmed. i think one of the turning points was went prime minister himself stepped into the situation and had the pre prest conference the other day the situation had risen to a serious level within their government. im sure in regard to a country like indonesia or any other country in the region, if they had information that had a direct beerpg the whereabouts or what happened to this aircraft, they would have certainly shared it with the government of malaysia already. >> youre...

Get to this point we still dont know what was in the cargo manifest of this airplane. you think thats relevant. why? >> well, it is certainly something we want to eliminate. people have talked about simply a heist. the airplane itself is going to be hard to get rid of a hot airplane. but what about the carrying zbhoe was there some incredibly high-value cargo? but now we are seeing -- we watch want to eliminate that but also seeing information that may have indicated that this operation was plan...

North maybe somewhere? do you buy that at all? >> well, i certainly think its still on the table, chris, until we can eliminate that possibility. but you know, we are gonna get some indication of that when we look for the rehearsal information. any act like this thats an ann intentional act whether it is a criminal act or terrorist act there is always information and activities that happen before it, proceed it theres casing activity, rehearsal activity before the actual act. and so what we need...

wednesday october 12th. american officials are outraged and say iran will pay. this texas used car salesman is the unlikely suspect in an alleged assassination plot backed by iran. the u.s. claims that mons orr arbab arbabsiar was going to kill the ambassador of the united states. saying ar baubs yea wanted to blow up a restaurant killing the diplomat and potentially many americans right along with him. officials gathered in washington and gathered the diplomatic corps at the state dep...