would have never happened. they were cheap and stupid and i think this is probably the worst pr disaster i ve ever seen. wow. if a plane had crashed, it probably would have been less of a disaster. well, my goodness. they would have handled it better. let s be glad a plane didn t crash but this is horrible all the way around. randy, we re trying to get more information about who this passenger was. there s not a lot out there. we re unaware of any lawsuits pending this man first, we ll see if we can fly the friendly skies, he s going to end up owning the airlines. you think so? from a defense posture, let s face it and i got this from
feet. lubitz told his pilot, you can go now, you can go to the bathroom. you can hear pilot s seat pulling back. at 10:29 p.m. this is when lubitz locked the can beockpit. what would have had to happen was a manual input in the controls in the cockpit for the plane to start moving down towards the french alps. at 10:32, you hear air traffic controllers trying to contact the plane, they re getting no answer from the cockpit, then there s an alarm going on. it s telling the person at the controls that the plane is descending too rapidly, that s when you also start to hear a loud banging on the door that is the captain who s screaming for god s sake open the door and that s also when you can start to hear passengers screaming in the background. that s 10:32 a.m., and the plane
investigated several different possibilities of what else it might be including monitor beacons that are used in the ocean on various species to track them and those do operate in that same frequency. however, what i discovered is the ones that ping at one-second intervals and operate on that frequency, have not been manufactured for decades. the chance that a battery would survive that long is pretty slim. at this point i ruled out in my mind any other possibility than a beacon from that black box. i think we ve heard from viewers on twitter and online that there is so much debris that hasn t washed up on australian shore is shocking to people this far out. always a delight to have you with us. thanks so much. ahead at this hour, why didn t the emergency beacons aboard flight 370 work? they didn t send distress signals to satellites overhead. does that mean the plane didn t crash? (mom) when our little girl was born,
to find the pingers and it took them two years. just like with air france in the south atlantic. this is probably going to be a very long search and unless we just luck out and one of these hears the pinger and we localize it quickly. chairman mccaul, as head of homeland security committee, are security officials still pursuing the possibility that this is a terrorist plot? are they still pursuing the possibility that the plane didn t crash, that it landed somewhere on a remote runway in the southern indian ocean or have they basically given up on that scenario? well, i think in terms of landing it on a runway somewhere, probably less likely. i think it s in the indian ocean. we haven t ruled out the terrorism although there s no direct evidence of that at this point in time. if this was a deliberate attack as we think it was, remember the transponders turn off after they
kind of catastrophic failure caused the plane to crash? the plane didn t crash, we know that. the plane continued to fly for another 5 1/2, 6 hours. and because of that, the whole theory of a mechanical failure is put in doubt. you know, the u.s. investigators from the very start have focused on the pilots. why? because it s a coincidence too far is the way one of the malaysian investigators put it to me, a coincidence too far that you sign off with kuala lumpur air traffic control, and before you sign on with the next air traffic control, ho chi minh city, vietnam, then you make your turn, then you disappear, your transponder goes off. all of these other things happen. it is suspicious, and the investigation is focusing there. but what they re learning, well, maybe we ll find out. we ve got a press briefing coming up in less than 90 minutes time. so, we hope by then to be able to tell you something.