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>> we just lost her unfortuna unfortunately. thats the part we want to hear. what people on the ground are told. we know theres passengers, relatives far away it watching hear. >> the people on the ground feel theyre not being told enough. they want more information. got to be very, very, very frustrating. >> were going to take a short break. ahead this hour, obviouslile ahead of actual facts there are wild theories spreading online about what may have actually happened. theyre spreading because...

Or five hours it suggests hijacking to me. somebody that knew what they were doing turned off the transponder, continued the plane onto somewhere else. ive seen speculation it was hijacked and going to be used for some undetermined purposes. so i think if this report is is right, its a key piece of information. would somebody take a plane like this and turn it into a weapon? we saw that in 9/11. what you can do with one of the airplanes is follow another into a metropolitan area. it will come up...

Of course weve seen a spectrum of emotions. theres sadness, people who are hoping for miracles. then of course theres a deep frustration with the lack of information and knowledge coming out. john? >> you know, i was thinking about that passenger we heard from, the wife of the passenger, danica. talking about the fact theyre being told nothing. im curious if the airline is doing anything for these people, giving them any help in trying to answer the questions from their children, from the younge...

Started. that is that there was some kind of catastrophe that took place that quickly and abruptly shut all systems down that would communicate with the ground and give us better information. >> captain, i want to question you on that point. that really is the nub of the issue at the minute. you have have this all right, good night on the hand over from the air space to vietnamese which is normal. then you have the loss of information. that puts the search area once again, doesnt it, back to the...

Day six of the jetliner that vanished into thin air with 239 people on board. the question is did the jetliner keep flying four hours after its last contact. according to the wall street journal, it did. it says the rolls royce automatically sent data to the manufacture as part of a maintenance program. mela malaysia say the information is not accurate. >> all of this is unfolding as vietnamese search crews find nothing in the debris field that chinese satellites said they spotted. they had sear...

The investigators and the ceo of malaysia airlines have said quite clearly the information from the aircraft stopped at 1:27. weve had nothing from it since. those engines had no mechanism transmitting information. im with the captain on this. we can go down any road on this. we can say, can you switch off the a card system? yes. then youve still got the radar track. there comes a point where seasoned investigators say yeah thats probable, possible, but unlikely. >> thats where the problem comes...

Information from how its performing. in this case, that information is transmitted from the aircraft by the a card system to malaysia airlines and rolls royce. the reason is both big data, rolls royce wants to get as much as they can about it and small data, when is the engine going to need maintenance. >> is it possible engines could send signals back even if there had been an accident, the plane was in the water broken into pieces? >> no. for the simple reason, the electric -- the a card trans...

Cant wear his ring on the mine site. he said im going to leave my wedding ring here. im going to leave my wedding ring and watch. should anything happen to me, i want the ring to go to the first son thats married and the watch to the second. i said something like dont be stupid. just come back and ill give it back to you. you can give it to them. ive got it here. im praying i can give that back to him. i can hold onto it. theres no finality to it. were not getting any information. whether they k...

Is that understandable given the real vacuum of information we have here? >> i think so, jon. and i think also, you know, when a spectacular event happens, i think its human nature to try and find some sort of cause that explains something mysterious. and weve seen this in other airline crashes, tw800, a lot of eyewitnesses said they saw the plane being taken down by service-to-air missiles when it crashed in 1996. peter sal jer, who was jfks press secretary took it a step further and said a u.s...

Quite like this malaysian airlines mystery? probably never. you might think you have in a hollywood movie. now days, planes dont just vanish. >> that makes the story so intriguing. with satellite, gps, radars, computers on the craft, you think there would be something to follow up on. theres just no clue or so few clues. we have jeff wise with us, science author. you wrote a column and said this is unlike anything we have ever known before. unlike anything weve known before. why? >> just the she...