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The suicide theory doesnt make sense either. we dont have a motive but maybe it is because the police havent finished their investigation. motive in any crime, is just as important as opportunity. we dont have a motive. if it was pilot suicide, why ply for seven hours. presumably, the co-pilot and others would have picked something up. im not willing to rule out the possibility of a mechanical failure. we know the transponder has been turned off. we just dont know why. >> most people think if it...

Feet. now, if it goes up to 45,000 feet, that will kill all the passengers in the back, anyone who doesnt have a mask in the cockpit. back down to 5,000. how do we know that? theres no one telling us, because we dont have contact from the plane 1:30 a.m. until a ping at 2:15, the malaysian military said they saw something, and then again at 11:08 a.m. theres a period where we know something, so someone is not telling us. heres my point, theyre not telling us everything they know. the families mu...

Controversy whether or not it would send a signal. but hitting the water, that instant you hit the water thats like hitting cement. at least once it would send to . am i right? do you agree with me jesse or not? >> i would think so. for sure if it was submerged in salt water it could go off. >> so thats different than the black box ping. this is is the elt. thats something separate, right? >> thats correct. >> all right. >> this el. >> it is transmit allege signal to a satellite. >> all right. a...

It is not measuring where it is on the plot. it knows it is on the line but it doesnt know where it is on the line. i guess one of the questions is, lets assume that the point of this was, pilot take over and like a flight 990 suicide. why not just put it in the drink right away? why fly it for six or seven hours? >> well, aviation, commercial aviation cannot stay in a vacuum. we need to find out what happened. air france 447 which crashed in the south atlantic, they searched for two years until...

We appreciate you taking time out of your busy schedule. i want to bring in chad myers. he is in the cnn weather center. this search area keeps expanding. >> i wanted to ask commander marks. he is here. the kidd is up heare. i wanted to ask why ma, where malaysia thinks the plane is because of the last ping. maybe we can get him back tomorrow or the next day. theyll be very, very busy. i wonder if those helicopters can fly over land? oh, commander, youre still there. >> i listen to you on the ne...

26 nations are now hunting for flight 370 along the search curve that extends as far north as central asia and as far south as the deepest part of the indian ocean where the sea floor drops more than two miles below the surface. key to the sprawling hunt could be detecting ping from the flights data recorders. talk about this, im joined by chuck scofield. welcome, sir. >> good morning. >> you know, you make equipment to make sure scenarios like this dont happen. as you sit back and watch this wh...

And the information. we cant really search to know. heres the technical reality. if you were flying at 35,000 feet and going about 600 miles an hour, you are not going to be able to attach to a cell phone tower. the cell phone towers have a limited range. might go maybe three miles. thats half the distance in height that you might need and most are pointing at the ground. the other thing is where they were flying and not densely populated areas. there is not a lot of towers and even to ping. you...

Another hurdle. the size and the challenge of all those countries involved. >> look at all the names. this is not the flight path. this is the ping line. all the way through western china. this is about right here where the plane couldnt go any further. it wouldnt have any more fuel and it couldnt get there because it would have been going too slow to go there. it wouldnt go 700 miles per hour. it only goes about 500 miles an hour. that would have been impossible for the 8:11 ping. we dont know ...

Navy, coast guard, et cetera, they have the equipment either on an a surface listening device or a towed array on the ship itself which goes to a depth and listens for the equipment. so its important that they have the equipment that will listen for the specific frequency. >> literally an army of people are looking for any sign, any ping emitted from these flight data recorders. i know its a very large area but are you surprised nothing has been heard as of yet? >> it is surprising. with as many...

Off position. that is real easy to turn off. the acars on this airplane you can never turn off that box itself because this box is continuously energized and why we have the ping after we lost the data. its the data part that was disabled. and it takes a series of key strokes on an information system and a key pad to actually take the data system down. somebody would have to have a high level of knowledge of how to do that because that is not something that a lot of pilots would know, even under...