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Could singly account for what happened. we dont know. >> that doesnt explain the information that they picked up. they picked up a ping and it went to the points if there was -- if a lithium battery was at fault or a contributing factor, that would be an explosion? >> a lithium battery, they start to overheat. they got hotter and hotter. they start to burn through their casing. >> burn through the electrical system? >> anything that they are near. they have the capability of burning right throug...

Bodies. lea gabrielle is here. >> this plane may have been flying an aviation corridor in the sky. you look up at this chart. you see these lines here. these are the so-called aviation corridors or jet routes. and see those points? those are way points that help define that route. now -- >> like something from which you would watch when your flying or a ping you look for? >> essentially theyre gps coordinates, fixed points, and you would have a name for them so that when youre talking to air tra...

Why? because pings were picked up by a satellite. these pings do not indicate exactly the location, the heading, anything else about this particular plane. they just say, im here. im here, im here. its kind of like if you had xm satellite radio in your car and never subscribed and the satellite knew you existed. thats kind of all that happened. so the question is, as that plane continued to travel and as it gave off a ping, only once an hour, can they use some sort of mathematical calculation in...

Fuselage and wings scattered far because of how high up the plane was when it exploded. >> the initial pieces of floating debris just give you a clue where to start looking and listening for the pingers, the transmitting devices that make a ping sound that a sonar picks up that are on the recorders. >> reporter: in the case of the 1996 hijacked ethiopian plane when the pilot tried ditching the aircraft in shallow waters, it broke into three segments with the fuselage floating and the rear sectio...

Right. something to understand about radar is that those were two different radar systems. the radar system which is primary is the one that says marco. and the secondary says polo. so, if you dont have the polo, which they didnt on these other pings, you really dont know much about it. you dont even know what the altitude of that ping is. its just telling you theres something coming at you, its about this size and coming at this rate, at this speed. so, thats why those two reports really dont j...

Them, is there some viability to "the wall street journals" theory that maybe they landed somewhere because they wanted to use the plane for another purpose later. but then what happened to the 239 passengers? >> right. i mean, you cant rule out "the wall street journals" theory, because theyre saying there was a ping from a data source for four hours. so we add that with the other facts, its possible the plane was flying. if the malaysian military authoritys radar which is pretty squishy right ...

That is the worrisome thing. it is important we have our very best because technically the u.s. has the best sensors, but the best sensors to find the field that leads to the black box because that will tell the story. >> i know we call it the black box, it is obviously orange, obviously built to withstand a significant crash. why do you think weve not been able to pick up the ping from that? either one of you have a theory? >> because we havent gotten close enough to it off it is submerged deep...

That is the worrisome thing. it is important we have our very best because technically the u.s. has the best sensors, but the best sensors to find the field that leads to the black box because that will tell the story. >> i know we call it the black box, it is obviously orange, obviously built to withstand a significant crash. why do you think weve not been able to pick up the ping from that? either one of you have a theory? >> because we havent gotten close enough to it off it is submerged deep...

Claimed their cell phones were still ringing. the ringing means the network is searching for the device, not necessarily that the call is getting flew, sean. >> a quick question or two. there was a 90 minute period that the plane was just kind of missing and all of a sudden it didnt show up in chinese airspace. do you have an update on that, was the transponder turned off? where is the black box ping and do we have any update on the iranian involved in this, that paid for the other two passenger...

Figure this out. the oddest thing, the black box gives a ping and that has not been picked up at this point. then you have the transponder shut off. i talked to a 777 pilot who said that could be turned off by the pilots, if theyen watted to turn it off, but why would theyen watt to turn it off. thats odd, right? >> its all very odd. the australian women who were in the cockpit with the pilots beforehand. it does not look like pilot error, if the plane had broken up, they would have found a debr...