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To be okay. >> one of the good reasons to have those dam -- cameras up there. lets get back to the top story this morning. how does a 600,000 pound jet liner just vanish without a trace. lets turn to renee marsh for possible answers. >> three words, aifuate, navigate and communicate. it appears whatever happened, it was so fast, the pilots never got to that last step. until they find the data recorders, ail possible theories are on the table. there no shortage of ex-plan sagss. >> you just hav...

Does that give any indication to what happened or could that just be a separate mechanical failure? >> thats what investigators are going to look at. theyre going to want to see where that exact transponder failure occurred and whether or not there was actual radar coverage in that particular area. because the transponder provides a discreet code. it provides altitude information and ground speed. if the rest of the radar data after that is just what we call a skin paint where youre not getting ...

Error. in fact, a ten-year study by boeing shows nearly two-third of aircraft losses are due to human factors. even without the wreckage, investigators should be interviewing everyone who touched that plane. those who loaded food. pilots who flew this jet on earlier flight. maintenance records. cargo handlers. in fact, it was improperly stored cargo that led to a fire which brought down a value jet in the florida everglades. >> so we need to keep an open mind. continue the search, find the wreck...

Were back. how does an airplane carrying 239 passengers on board including 3 americans vanish? thats what investigators are trying to figure out right now as they look into the disappearance of malaysian airlines flight 370. it was traveling from kuala lumpur en route to beijing saturday morning. theres no trace of the airliner which abruptly disappeared after takeoff. no wreckage has been found, no sign of mechanical or pilot error, no evidence of an explosion, no claims of terrorism. there wer...

Of it enunciates your position to air traffic control. and it helps to protect the air space that youre flying in. the type of transponder that the triple 7 has and what would be enunciated on a radar screen would say,m h 370, it would give the altitude, the air speed, the direction of flight. so the it kind of protects your air space and alerts air traffic control if theres an incursion into your air space. you want that protection all the time. >> so the transponder is off. we know at this poi...

Investigators in asia are not ruling anything out whether it is terrorism, pilot error, or even suicide of the crew. >> a lot to be learned in this sto story still. one state is seeing green -- $2 million in taxes. is this the right way to go? >> and a harrowing ordeal with a mountain climber injured and trapped on a cliff. he fell to that point. the daring chopper rescue that saved him. >> and evidence putin might be . ambassador bolton is here to talk about that. >> putin violated internatio...

Guests, quickly, greg, of all the theorys, mechanical failure, potential terrorist attack, a dry run in some capacity, drug mules, hijacking, pilot error, where would you say the smart money is going on what has caused this? >> im going to give you the politically correct answer, im an investigator, you dont rule anything in or out, but you have to look at at least logic, its evident that the airplane was still capable of flying. so that would really rule out a very catastrophic event that would...

777. 239 people were onboard when it van,ned from radar off the coast of vietnam. interpol is now identifying two men who boarded the plane using stolen passports. both are iranian, and officials believe at least one of them was trying to seek asylum in europe. david piper streaming live from bangkok, thailand. what more do we know about these men, david? >> reporter: hi, jon. well, interpol is saying they dont believe theyre involved in terrorism at all. thats the story of the 19-year-old reall...

An hour after the flight, which we think is possibly an hour before total contact was lost. does that give any indication to what happened, or could that just be a separate mechanical failure? >> thats what investigators are going to look at. theyre going to want to see where that exact transponder failure occurred and whether or not there was actual radar coverage in that particular area because the transponder provides a discreet code. it provides altitude information and ground speed. if the ...

Environment for some period of time, unfortunately, we dont know what direction it had flown, its going to be the search effort and the expansion of that search grid to find the wreckage. >> before i go to our other two guests, quickly, greg, of all the theorys, mechanical failure, potential terrorist attack, a dry run in some capacity, drug mules, hijacking, pilot error, where would you say the smart money is going on what has caused this? >> im going to give you the politically correct answer,...