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Its hard to wrap your head around searching 3 million square miles. it is a hell of a big haystack to look for not even a needle. instead what more is considered by the analysts to be a piece of a needle. chad myers is with us from the cnn world headquarters in atlanta. and also somebody who has looked down at earth from space and knows the enormity of this task from five months commanding the international space station, nasa astronaut chris hadfield has an idea how this mystery could be more e...

Level of that aircraft? >> as it turns out, we got the last ping, seven hours after takeoff. for whatever reason, they apparently had put more fuel into it, it may be there standard prak sis, so they dont have to buy fuel in beijing, it may be more expensive, i dont know. im taking the data that says they got a ping -- their last ping was seven hours after. >> how long would that flight have been, just to give our audience some coordinates here. from where it took off, if it landed in pakistan, ...

Lets check in with don lemon. hes hosting a cnn special report, the mystery of flight 370 at the top of the hour. huge response, don. cnn has become sort of the global water cooler when it comes to this story. what are you hearing tonight? >> what a mystery it is. were hearing a lot. last night we were getting maybe 40 tweets per second if not more of people asking questions. questions like this, bill. this one is from amy. amy says, do the sightings of a low-flying jet on the maldives mesh with...

Search, their ship search, they must know something in the indian ocean. when the israeli defense forces increase their defense alert, they must know something, they are questioning people further out. for those people that say even with the transponder off, they got a ping. most people dont realize, the crew on at 2:00, 3:00, 4:00 in the morning is not the a-team. it doesnt surprise me that this could have happened the way i am describing it. -- >> so this would explain -- go ahead, im sorry, s...

Is possible has been squeezed out. >> okay. >> because as soon as the acars were turned off, the data part. the box, itself, wasnt turned off. thats how we got the ping, six hours of pings. the electronic box was still active. it was just the data downburst. once we lost that, we lost the transponder. the airplane went out of radar coverage and we dont have eyes in sky, the satellite data to track this airplane. now its anyones guess and we will not get any more data. if the airplane is found an...

>> the pilot could have loaded a flight plan into the stand-by system and soo when the airplane took off and was on its way to beijing, they could have pulled up this alternate flight plan, made it the active flight plan for one of two reasons. either to come back because of an emergency or to take the airplane on a route well away from beijing. >> locating this plane would add a lot more clues, but investigators are still struggling with an absolutely huge search area. ann an area that was once...

Directions, moving to the west and then really the next thing -- next event on this time line is 6:30 a.m. thats when the plane was supposed to land. and what happened between that last transmission and that scheduled arrival time, there is still so much mystery, its really opaque the facts that happened during that period. >> what happened at 8:11 a.m. which is more than an hour and a half after that plane is supposed to have been landing in beijing. there is a communication notice here that th...

40 tweets per second if not more of people asking questions. questions like this, bill. this one is from amy. amy says, do the sightings of a low-flying jet on the maldives mesh with the timing and location of the last ping on acars? well answer that at the top of the hour. heres what alex is asking. rule of flying is to navigate, aviate, then communicate. perhaps fire came on quickly, pilot responds course changes and passes out. >> we have the best aviation experts in the united states and in ...

Area. >> also apparently, and thanks a lot, thailand, they just revealed yesterday that they picked up a ping, they didnt tell anybody because nobody asked. thats the problem. these countries over there are not very forth coming in sharing information. we know china doesnt just give out a bunch of military radar information. thats just not in their nature. also thailand, the maldives. they dont have a lot of coverage and dont want to share that with their enemies. last night on hannity, it was s...

Things, again, we are using information that were not sure is 100% valid. some information out there, for example, that mall veez: the plane, the last communication came just prior to it going west. the "new york times" reported that it was a computer command not a manual control. the transponder is turned off. the pilot has the ability to do that. that tells me somebody is in the cockpit. we know the last ping was about seven hours later. that tells me and the alternating altitudes tells me som...