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For air france flight 447. all right, gentlemen, it may be time to reset. we just heard from richard quest on the theories, everything from the plane is in kandahar, to maybe it was shot down, to fire in the cockpit. where do you stand, ph? what is your prevailing theory on this flight? >> first, i want to say richard does a very good job yesterday. he was very interesting -- >> with the prime minister. >> great interview, and plus, i noticed some information especially about the military, which...

Ocean then because we are searching much more further northward, much closer to malaysia than we were searching before the currents in this region actually moves kind of the other way around. so currents would tend to bring the debris westward, essentially slowly towards africa. and im not sure how much effort has been put into searching really in that area. so it might be that there is something overlooked a bit, the area where the debris might be. >> you say in your experience you dont think t...

Beijing, there has been so much talk about autopilot, but weve learned that turn took two minutes to maneuver. someone said it was clearly an intentional turn. what does that tell you? >> it tells that you it was a controlled turn. that it was done under the command of somebody, whether pilots or otherwise. because the plane basically would have done a gentle turn like that. when i heard the two minute line, thats what the source suggested. i think that is a little bit long. i think you would do...

Anonymous stuff coming out of malaysia and use that. i think we want to have some backup though side to know that people are taking it seriously here. >> you reported another story here in the times that the plane altered its course more than once. and then there was the piece about the story about the plane turning sharply to the west, but then it turned out the turn was not so sharply. so even it seems to me that unlike pundits going on the air .speculating, american officials presumably know ...

Were they trying to get the plane to an altitude where people onboard could breathe easily because of depressurization? or decompression onboard? was there a fire in the cockpit that made them make that turn back? perhaps it was a u-turn. we know this took around two minutes on a 777. was that a 90 degree to 180 degree turn? let me share with you, a couple of weeks ago i went out to the northeast of malaysia, just off the coast of the south china sea. i spoke to some fishermen who were out fishi...

Anonymous stuff coming out of malaysia and use that. i think we want to have some backup though side to know that people are taking it seriously here. >> you reported another story here in the times that the plane altered its course more than once. and then there was the piece about the story about the plane turning sharply to the west, but then it turned out the turn was not so sharply. so even it seems to me that unlike pundits going on the air .speculating, american officials presumably know ...

Investigation, to realize this has been an incompetent investigation from day one. >> why, what keeps changing? >> the facts keep changing, they release information and say something totally different. look at the new timeline they released. look at how much time it took to get them to the houses of the pilots. theyre part of the investigation, we have to go in there. they waited several daysment look how long the military took just to be able to say we saw it on our military radar and when aske...

Was it sabotage, was it some kind of hijacking? we do not know the answer to that. nobody at the moment really knows the answer to that. because they have no definitive intelligence or information that leads them to believe it was an act of terrorism, sabotage, a deliberate act, pilot suicide, any of the theories weve all heard for the last several days. what they do have is data, information now, technical, highly technical data that tells them the likely path of the plane. in other words where...

Joining me now is james cavanaugh, an msnbc law enforcement analyst. james, what do you make of this new information? >> well, it goes back to things we talked about last night, lawrence. a human hand involved, i still feel and the evidence suggests there must be some human involvement in that plane turning and the transponder being turned off. because there seems to be many redundant systems in those planes according to the airline pilots and ntsb experts. >> why would the -- it seems like ther...

Waters to the north of the indonesian island of sumatra, perhaps even in the bay of bengal or in the indian ocean. you can see here that the defined search area is now 25,000 nautical square miles. 25,000. that is massive. if you then expand into the indian ocean, its -- boy, the math would just be incalculable. >> greg, how reliable is the information that we are getting from the malaysian military, and what is the conceivable explanation for a plane turning that way? it could not turn. >> the ...