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The flight attendant walks into the cockpit, takes control, but the plane runs out of gas. we lost that plane when it ran out of gas. everybody thinks this triple 7 through for about seven hours. we can talk about the two turns, the initial left turn we discussed. and then you have to explain a second left -- likely left turn. its not speculation, but based on preliminary data. >> so you are voting, you the author of air safety investigators, former ntsb, you vote accident? >> i think thats like...

If this debris is any part of the plane flight 370, joining me now to break down is robert mark, commercial pilot and publisher. very good to see you again. thanks so much for being with us. >> youre most welcome. >> mereheres what i wanted to . we have all these satellites up in the air. we use them for everything, for getting -- i could google map your house and see your driveway. so why are we having such a hard time identifying this debris? is it the location in that part of the world? >> we...

Flying planes. thanks, doug. >> thanks, guys. >> we want to take a look at the anatomy of a black box. they are built to withstand crashes and can withstand impact. the biggest issue now is the battery life of the black box. the batteries are designed to last 30 days. since we are already on day 12, there are just 18 days left to find the black box. if we take a look back, we can see the underwater locator beacon. as soon as the flight recorder hits the water it begins emitting a ping once a sec...

Silence. are you in good hands? back now to a big development were tracking tonight, earlier we spoke with retired air force general tom mcinerney that this plane was flown to pakistan, listen. >> i still think a course of action, now, megyn, is that the airplane went north and it went into either pakistan or eastern iran. i dont -- cannot confirm that. but all the data i have, this would be a course of action, again, a course of action. >> back now to our panel. robert mark, a commercial pane...

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Debris is still in the area. >> thats true. we talk about the issue of drift. they have to do math in both directions here. even though it may show here by now it could be here as they send the aircraft out to look for it. then you have to go to the other direction if it was here a few days ago it must have started out here. they have a lot of work to do to figure out what the current have been and the speed they have been travelling for days. when you look at the debris you have to look at the ...

Anything for them. he was hired by malaysia airlines directly out of school. and trained by malaysia airlines. he was one of the original triple 7 fleet captains. you know. great guy. just a great pilot. you know, i think that it attests to his experience of 18,000 hours of flying, great career. >> joining me now, robert mark, a commercial pilot and fox news aviation analyst, also kathleen banks, a fox news aviation specialist, and tom blank who was a former department tsa executive. tom let me ...

Theyre going to interest v.to try to find other parts of the wreckage if these are pieces of the plane, it may take weeks, months ashg long time before they have all of the information and all of the answers as far as what happened here. people have been watching for two weeks, wondering what would have happened how a jetliner could have just vanished seems like something impossible. but now, the flight path narrowed down just days ago, to these, one of the areas off of australia theyre searchin...

It caught fire. look at the cockpit the reason that fire spread so quickly is because it was an oxygen-rich environment. everybody got off board that plane okay. but the damage and jet were destroyed. megan? >> eerie to think about that happening flight 370. patrick smith, robert mark, ask corky smith. patrick let me start with you. the main argument against mechanical failure on board this flight seems to be how could a mean fly 5 or 6 hours on auto pilot, across malaysia into the indian sea? >...

You make of this latest information? what does it tell you? >> i think weve known for a while, at least a lot of folks ive been talking to, that this has been an intentional maneuvering of the aircraft. one of the pilots clearly had the intention, as soon as that plane took off, he was going to take it in another direction, why, i have no idea, it was very clear, not only -- i mean, the fact that the transponder was turned off, the fact that the acars stopped functioning. this type of thing does...