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Happened. >> they cant say that. all we know is that they stopped transmitting data. there is no way to know if they were turned off in the cockpit or not. what we really have is six data points. we have the point where they turned, the island just past malaysia where they think they got a radio or a radar tracing hit. then, the four data points that were sent from the plane to the satellite. thats all we have. we cant speculate. thats how we help to solve the problem. we can guess. there is no ...

Communications. thats one of the reasons why this u.s. ship is going out to the indian ocean to search. so what do we make of that. >> there are several scenarios where things like that have happened in the past. the payne stewart situation where the plane literally crossed the united states. the pilots were not alive or responsive. we were able to track that pl p plane. the united states of america did not have to shoot that plane down. we knew the way it was headed and we knew its capabilities...

>> the problem, carol, is that you have all these unnamed sources being quoted by various news services and we dont know if theyre getting those sources are getting information from people third hand that are not immediately involved in this thing or closely involved. we just dont know the qualifications of the sources themselves and then the services put the information out and everybody runs around in circles based on source information that may or may not be true. i think the biggest issue wi...

Flown in that direction. >> all we know the transition stopped. we dont know that someone turned them off. developing this morning, new planes that communication systems onboard were shut down separately. the american navy rushing to the new search area. as new details pour in every hour. youre live in the cnn "newsroom." good morning, welcome to this special edition of "newsroom" im carol costello. breaking news on the dispeerance of malaysia airlines flight 370. the investigation and the s...

Up a vast new search area. were covering all the angles. correspondents and reporters and lets begin with richard quest and this new reuters report. tell us more, richard. >> well, what this report does is take the information that the aircraft or an aircraft was sending these ping messages. basically saying to the satellite, i am here. i am here, i am here. we know that they did this yesterday. the u.s. confirmed that they were looking at this and this was one of the reasons why resources and s...

Keeps growing. carol? >> the families continue in their anguish. tom foreman, thanks so much. i want to bring in our aviation correspondent, richard quest. he is in new york. we have captain sean cassidy, the first vice president of the airlines pilot association international. welcome to both of you. >> good morning. richard, i want to start with you. a pink from the plane or a plane that was picked up by satellite. when you plot those, they are prepared to go over the following wave points. th...

Search area, i would hope there is a taeam underwater scouring the floor of the gulf of thailand having a look and seeing if there is anything there. my sense is we need a big white board with some sharpees and only the facts that are true and real and on the right side, all the things that need to be tracked down. not a lot of evidence to go by. >> im going to throw something else into the mix thats confusing. chinese researchers recorded this sea floor event in the waters around malaysia and v...

On the bottom of the plane that the spinning of the air would generate electricity. thats called a rat, by the way. five to six different ways just to back up the electricity, hydraulic system, how many different backups for that? >> eight different systems. air driven or numanic systems and electric, it just goes on and on. its inconceivable that all those systems would fail at once and just complete failure like that. its electrically dead airplane. thats unheard of. >> no way to really stress...

Fly. this plane, apparently flew, the word youll hear, way points. the junctions on the interstates of the sky. go from one point to the next point to the next point to the next point and planes fly these in an orderly fashion. youre told by air traffic control as part of your flight plan to go from point a to point b to point c to point d. now, look, carol, this plane could have been flying, whatever plane it is, it could have been flying them on auto pilot or could have been flying them manual...

As you know now the plane vanished seven days ago. pentagon correspondent barbara starr joins me with that side of the story. good morning. >> good morning, carol. the ship has hit the northern end, essentially the entrance to the indian ocean and use its helicopters to conduct aerial searches for any evidence of debris field, any evidence of the plane. but earlier today, actually, a u.s. navy surveillance aircraft conducted its first air sweep of the region flying about 1,000 miles out into the...