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Question is have they really seen flight mh 370 on their radar or is it something else? then, of course, theres the elephant in the room that wont be discussed here publicly by malaysian officials and thats the extent of their radar. so where they see this plane, they get the last ping from the plane at 2:15 a.m. in the morning on the trajectory they are at the moment estimating it was on, it doesnt mean the plane stopped there, it means potentially, potentially we have to say thats where they l...

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...

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>> we only have a minute. what about this guy, ali, who said he bought the ticket for the guys? >> very possible its passport fraud, immigration fraud. illicit activity. was it terrorism? certainly not. theres no evidence of that. >> let me go to jim tilmon. a couple questions. where do we get the idea the plane may have turned back to kuala lumpur and not hear a ping out of the ocean? so many questions. you go with your questions. >> were wondering about the same kinds of things. the radar retu...

The search zone is massive. so if the plane left its route, just turning a little to the left to right, the search zone expands by hundreds, if not thousands of miles. the plane does have black boxes that ping out a noise and the waters are shallow, 165 feet deep. but submarines and special ships need to be within 5 to 10 miles to hear it. investigators search for clues on the two passengers who boarded using stolen passports. those two passengers bought their tickets at the same time, at this t...

Possibility that they had a power failure, but we know that even if theres a catastrophic power failure theres a backup power system that will give you power from anywhere from an hour to hour and a half, which is about the amount of time when they heard the last ping in the strait. so thats a possibility as well. >> could be a possibility but why didnt the pilot actually transmit -- >> no clue. >> i have to believe that maybe one of several possibilities, that is a very strong possibility, and ...

>> so as far as mechanical or anything about the vehicle itself, nothing, ever, with this 777. >> the -- >> that involved pay fallities. >> it had an incident in the past where the computer tossed -- caused it to pitch up. the pilot took control and was able to land. >> a lot of theories out there about what might have happened. we all have them. well get to more of enemy this newscast. wed likefrom you. what do you think happened? whats on your mind before the this? you can tweet us, twitter is...

Transponders and transmitters lasts for about 30 days. but there have been evidence it has lasted considerably longer. if it is underwater it will be more difficult to hear the ping or receive that information which is why more boats are being brought in with more sophisticated sonar equipment that will be able to better read and understand and understand if it is pinging. that assumes it is in one piece and working normally. but the location of these transmitters is such and the way they are bu...

Youre in "the situation room." 6:00 a.m. tuesday malaysia and another day of desperate searching begins for that missing jumbo jet with 239 people on board. its been about 72 hours since it vanished after takeoff from kuala lumpur without a distress signal or any hint about what happened. no smoke, no debris, no ping from the flights data recorder or so-called black box. lets check some of the new developments this hour. thai police now say two tickets for flight 370 that were linked to stolen p...

The cost to the consumer, right? >> they would, and honestly, i dont think you really need to have that i mean, we had a -- we talked about this after the air france accident. that if we could get an airplane to send one data string, that ping as you mentioned, but from the airplane even once a minute, with just a dozen major parameters, once a mingt, and that would be enough to give us more than what we know right now about this triple seven that were looking for. >> whats so difficult now for ...