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>> over 630 different potential landing sites that were established in this search radius because of the size of the 777 it would need 7,000 to land and an experienced pilot could do it less than that, about 5,000 feet but if it was landing be used for takeoff it needs that longer length. >> when you look at the hijacking theory there seems no reason why a hijacker would turn off the transponder and all sorts of abilities to track the plane and then just ditch it where no one can see. >> unless ...

Within the current search radius with runways long enough to accommodate a boeing 777. fueling the no longer quite as farfetched speculation, could flight 370 have possibly even landed somewhere? joining me now, nbc news correspondent kerry sanders whos been covering this story, and when youre looking at a search radius that is the current search radius, am affair in saying its to longer really even a search in any recognizable fashion? that is, just a swath of the earth that is just too massive...

House. >> we have dismantled it from the room and assembled it at our office and getting experts to look at it now. >> malaysian officials tamp down rampant speculation this weekend pointing out the two have no known ties to terror groups and had not requested to fly with each other on the mh-370. even with the question of who could have taken the plane and why and how still unanswered, of course, the biggest mystery that remains is where. where is the plane? wnyc identified 634 places within th...

Were hanging in there. >> jim joins us now from kuala lumpur. i remember when that air france flight disappeared from rio to paris. it took five days to actually find the wreckage floating in the water. it took two years to recover the black box. but officials are now expanding the search radius. time is not on their side, the longer it takes, the harder it gets, doesnt it? >> it certainly gets harder, but you know, i think the simple answer is that they dont know what else to do. they have sear...

Americans, including 51-year-old phillip wood, an ibm executive living in kuala lumpur, described by his family as incredibly generous creative and intelligent. >> pretty calm, pretty strong. were hanging in there. >> jim, i remember when that air france flight from rio to paris disappeared, it took five days to actually find wreckage floating in the water, it took two years to recover the black box, but officials are now expanding the search radius, time is not on their side, the longer it take...

Do this? particularly looking at the pilots but then youve got to really open that scope of the investigation to look at everybody. >> john, we talk about the knowledge that youre pointing to here about what it takes to fly this plane and what it takes to set up that course correction. we talked about it earlier on "way too early" the fact there are over 600 runways within the search radius right now where that plane could have safely landed with runways over 5,000 feet and a boeing 777 needs 7,...

Joining me now, nbc news correspondent kerry sanders, who has been covering this story. and when youre looking at a search radius that is the current search radius, am i fair in saying its to longer really even a search in any recognizable fashion? that is, just a swath of the earth that is just too massive to look for anything in an orderly manner? >> exactly right. i think the commander on the "u.s.s. kidd" put it well when he said just in the indian ocean, which is larger than the continental...

Primary focus for investigators who once confronted a search radius that covered 1/10 of the globe. >> the final satellite contact from the plane on the day it disappeared indicated it could have gone as far as this line. the amount of fuel onboard meant it wouldnt have been able to fly much further. this new potential debris lies between those two lines. in just the right spot to be as the investigators say, credible. >> four aircraft from the u.s., australia, and new zealand including an ameri...

Three days into the disappearance investigators say they are expanding their search radius since they are no closer to discovering what happened to the men and women on board. flight 370 disappeared one to two hours after cleving kuala lumpur to malaysia. no distress call was went. weather was clear. no sign of wreckage as earlier discoveries of an oil slick and other debris are not from flight 370. no cause for the disappearance is being given at this time. with boeing 777s generally having an ...

Spawning this international search. >> this is a lead. it is probably the best lead we have right now, but we need to get there, find them, see them, assess them, to know whether its really meaningful or not. >> officials express caution over the objects which may be debris that fell off a cargo vessel of something else entirely. the find was significant enough to merit an announcement from the australian prime minister, himself. >> we dont know what that satellite saw until we can get a much be...