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After his copilot went to the bathroom. there and to be pounding on the doorway which leads us to believe the pilot was alone. here there has been no crash, no evidence to indicate pilot suicide. we know before when incidents of pilot suicide occurred, they tend to be alone. >> let me turn to kit darby. something pilots can use, a secondary route where they can get at the press of the button if there was some type of emergency. >> if they were planning route and left it in the secondary flightpl...

Investigators are going to have to wait until the wreckage is found and the cockpit voice recorder and data recorder is found. >> at this point, it took off at 12:30 in the morning from kuala lumpur. a couple hours into the flight, you have to be at a cruising altitude. is the plane on auto pilot, typically, at this point? >> absolutely, alex. the crew would have leveled off and gone through their cruise performance routine. the airplane would be on auto pilot. they would be monitoring systems. ...

Bauns back. but again the underlying trend in this economy is improving but not fast enough. >> you posted in your blog this week, global trade deals are having a big impact. can you explain that in. >> the point is because weve had so much, theres lots of good things to say about international trade. it helps us a lot in terms of the prices of a lot of things we want to buy from around the world. but theres competition from lower wage countries with whom weve traded the and the fact that weve h...

They found wreckage relatively quickly, the challenge was to figure out where is the plane resting on the bottom of the ocean because the wreckage can drift. >> you make a good point. >> thats the challenge. if they find debris, do they know it is the malaysia airplanes plane and how far as it drifted? they are not government that is have the resources to go to the bottom of the ocean and lift a plane up. >> or trace the currents that can be extraordinary. i guess it was a 100 mile radius they a...

And wanda summers. >> this is serving red meat at cpac. isnt there a better way to do it without insulting the old guard? >> there is. this is an issue you are going to see this mccain/cruz continue. this is indicative to me of the tensions of the republican party. john mccain may call himself a maverick, but he was a representative of the institution of the republican party. ted cruz is part of the new guard, part of the insurgent tea party. as we get close to the 2014 midterms in just over 200...

To make is that, you know, if republicans were more conservative, perhaps they would win presidential elections. i think a lot of people might question that argument. its, you know, he was just making a flashy point by going after bob dole. there were a bunch of distracting or not so truthful comments made by speakers at cpac. this is a forum where they try out attack lines, work on public speaking and rally the foot soldiers in republican campaigns. these are people who go home and work for dif...

On board. one of the things you have to look at as an investigator is look at the accident side of it. was there something that went wrong with the aircraft? then, again, you have to look at the intentional act, the levels of terrorism. you cant rule anything in or out at this point. >> yeah. what are the challenges, the biggest ones facing investigators? is it just not having information? >> thats absolutely correct. if you remember air france 447, there was some telemetry data used before the ...

Apply the lessons to other flights. they have done that. >> you made that point, there was an ice storm. that is what that plane flew into. in this case, our eyes on the ground in singapore, mr. mccarthy said not a cloud in the sky. it would seem weather wont play a part in this. the fact that vietnam government officials said they have found something they think theres wreckage, yet its being denied. >> you know, this is the part of the world where its, you are talking about multiple countries,...

Airlines have to do to console these people? what is their responsibility? >> from the airlines standpoint, they have a family assistant program. they are going to try to provide as much information as they can. unfortunately, we dont have a lot of information. while they are holding out a positive hope with the posting of a delayed versus see agent or something to that effect, nobody wants to commit themselves, at this point. we dont have confirmation that the airplane is actually gone down. wh...

Catastrophic. i would also, as a side bar say that i can sympathize with the next of kin of the passengers. honestly, unfortunately, in a situation like this, at this point, there is little, if anything to tell them. its a very frustrating for everybody. >> paul, when you say catastrophic, i mean its catastrophic/instantaneous, correct? the pilot, there is no message from the pilot. no distress signal, nothing. >> caller: yeah, you are exactly right. that leads me to say its catastrophic. i can ...