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Caused that? was it a bomb? structural failure? >> adding to the theory this was more than just weather, the victims recovered were wearing no clothing. that would indicate they fell a long way after the cabin broke up. as the clues come in, stay with abc news for complete coverage. well take you back to indonesia for the latest in our next half hour. going to keeper focus overseas and to london where a terror threat is forcing a change of security tactics. fears the famous royal guards to be ...

Debris recovered so far may offer clues as to what brought the jet down. my experts are here with me now. a former inspector general for department of transportation now an attorney for victims of transportation accidents. mike boyd is an aviation consultant president of the boyd group. and an a 330 pilot and author of "flight for safety." and a, back with us as well here. mary the first of the debris was spotted 60 miles from the planes last known location. what does the distance tell us? >> it...

Activities finding the last-known location of the plane are very important. i think the 370 investigation really threw people off. and i think -- >> it changed our expectations really didnt it? >> it did. it made people question a lot of the things that had worked for us in the past. but you follow those protocols, you follow those procedures. you know where the last radar hit. where the last communication was. and what the crew might have communicated at the end. that will help you walk things ...

Yet, but then you know, on the map, on the globe it looks deceivingly small. this is the java sea. there was another plane that went down there, i guess it was a couple of years ago, and it took several weeks before they found it and they found it finally by some wreckage washing up on the shore and then they were able to back track and find it. so it wouldnt be the first time that a plane went down in the java sea and it was difficult to find. that being said since they have the radar where the...

On the aircraft had a final transmission and a final radar hit. everything following that in terms of the turn seems to be with the origination of those that got hate or didnt get a hit on the radar, weve seen a lot of political movement in terms of nations jockeying for positi position,it seems. im not sure people are playing well together. >> i think we are, to be honest with you, i think we are back at the beginning. ive heard a number of comments on this network saying perhaps a group of fre...

>> reporter: more than ten days since flight 370 disappeared. and the mystery still dominate it is world headlines. the last satellite signal received somewhere between these two arcs. up to seven hours from the last known radar hit off malaysias west coast. of half a dozen countries in central asia have said the plane never appeared on their radars. further south the indian ocean, 28 million square miles of water. >> what we are going to here may change aif history. >> reporter: police searched...

In what is a criminal probe. >> this was not an accident. it was an intention alintentione act to bring down this plane. >> but why and where? the number of countries joining this has more than doubled to 26. this is now the largest search in aviation history. heres where investigators are looking. somewhere along these two sweeping arcs running to the north and south, up to seven hours from the planes last known radar hit off malaysias west coast. >> just to give you some context as to the si...

Could have been something completely different that they saw. the last known point of communication, that is -- that could be data on its own. and the other path could not have anything to do with the airplane. >> but we do know that triple 7s dont disappear on their own. and pilots would never turn off a transponder. and we do know that this ended up way off course. and we believe the mechanical data, on top of the military information that youre pointing out does suggest a four to five hour ex...

Could have been something completely different that they saw. the last known point of communication, that is -- that could be data on its own. and the other path could not have anything to do with the airplane. >> but we do know that triple 7s dont disappear on their own. and pilots would never turn off a transponder. and we do know that this ended up way off course. and we believe the mechanical data, on top of the military information that youre pointing out does suggest a four to five hour ex...

They were heading towards the andaman islands, is there any possibility they could have landed? >> greg and i were speaking with and michael as well. i think as a journalist, i say getting too far into this whole speculation thing. but weve got nothing after a week here. we crossed into far fetched land. everything is on the table, including that possibility. its a big jet. what would you figure, greg, 7,000, 8,000 feet of runway? >> easily. >> assuming hes burned off his fuel -- >> thats not pr...