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Was there another link from air traffic control to this plane that we dont know about? >> the only one i dont know about is the a-car system. im not sure what satellite source theyre referring to. >> the ultimate story, that the plane could have flown for several more hours, in your expert opinion, how is it we are only learning this now and does it confound you that the malaysian government seems to even be questioning that nugget of information? >> if you look at their press same, they said th...

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Data we dont know. what do you think could have happened? >> well, i mean, its simply inexplicable, but the one thing i want to underscore is exactly how difficult it is to find an aircraft in open ocean. i mean, we -- i was involved in the twa 800 accident that was only nine miles off the coast of long island, and it took us days to find the wreckage on that. in this case, as tom costello mentioned, there is very minimal radar data. they are starting from scratch, and it is very hard to find ev...

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Cockpit in an earlier flight. there is is a lot looking into the background of these two guys. nothing has surfaced that raises any red flags, greta. >> any unusual cargo on that plane? >> no i havent heard anything about the cargo. that is one thing they need to check. there was one report that five people even checked up on to this flight and then didnt get on board. but the luggage did travel on that plane. but that does seem to be one of the lines of investigation look into cargo and if it h...

Commit suicide. >> let me just briefly set this up if i can. egyptair, flight 990 crashed in 1999 off the coast new england. and it was later determined by the ntsb and you were leading the investigation, that it was pilot suicide. tell us what you did there and how you think that might apply here. >> the difference was, we had five different sets of radar, monitoring egyptair. we were able to recover the data recorder and the voice recorder nine days after the accident. as soon as we had that i...

He wasnt prepared to answer that and said the radar data is being analyzed. lots of questions without answers and of course the crucial thing here as you rightly point out, there are families waiting for news. we spoke to one father of a 29-year-old today, malaysian man, just absolutely broken and the rest of the family unable to speak to us because they were just too owe motional about it as you can imagine. he said to us, look, my son -- i am resigned to the fact it might be the worst possible...