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>> today the mystery of a vanished malaysian jetliner keeps getting deeper and deeper with pretty troubling implications for global security. theres still no trace of flight 370. investigators are ruling out nothing, including mechanical failure or pilot error or even terrorism and they have nothing. an oil slick and debris spotted off the coast of vietnam turned out to be totally unrelated. >> we have not found anything that appears to be object from the aircraft, let alone the aircraft. we wil...

Winning the wrong lottery after winning the wrong lottery. you have -- >> im losing you. >> sorry, im totally -- >> i can talk to that. can you hear me? >> yeah, ive got you. >> lets take the fact that all pilot errors are -- mechanical are a combination of things. air france, the pilots werent trained how to compensate for it, in fact, made the wrong decisions. weve had that often. its normally not just a pilot error. something mechanical. the md-11 swiss air flight in nova scotia. the pilot de...

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Tip of a wing after clipping another plane on the ground in shanghai. now, while that wing was repaired, investigators will want to know whether that repair in any way contributed to the crash. clearly, this is eerily similar to the air france flight 447 which disappeared over the atlantic in 2009. while search teams did find pieces of the wreckage, it took two years to find the body of the plane on the ocean floor. but that, of course, was a airbus a-330. this is a boeing 777. the last time the...

Associated with the landing, attributed to pilot error at the time. so as we wait for translation now from the information that we are getting from the authorities we try to figure out what happened. all we know at this point is that the flight took off this morning at around 11:41 a.m. eastern time. and two hours into its journey it disappeared, according to the authorities, disappeared from radar. some officials suggested that it was approximately 35,000 feet at the time. we have not yet been ...

Already this might be terrorism. >> steve, what i always tell people that are riding on a plane when it gets turbulence, we are fine. you get up there. i mean, ive seen -- >> highly unusually. >> where once it beams, youre all right? >> what is that? >> say anything. say anything. yeah, once it starts -- in fact, the numbers are pretty insignificant as far as crashes once youre at a cruising level, especially on a plane of this size. what in the world happened here? >> well, we dont know. but, l...

The expert in the south china sea. while investigators are not ruling out mechanical failure or pilot error, the fact that malaysian authorities are saying four pass jengers on the flight are suspects are of grave concern. we are learning this not long after officials in italy and austria say two people were traveling with passports stolen from thailand. the intelligence agencies are also investigating the alleged stolen passports. authorities say they are checking closed circuit television foot...

Theories into something of an online industry. theres the hacker or terrorism theory. theyre the ones focused on pilots and crew, for instance, pilot error or perhaps pilot suicide or crew sabotage. theres also the very outside shot that the plane made an emergency landing somewhere but is unable to communicate. there are also the theories about a technical catastrophe, for instance an onboard fire. and lastly, that weather, even a meteor strike, could be at fault. some theories obviously are mo...