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Well, and we talked about that even in flight, that its accessible, the compartment where the uhf, vhf, transponder, and systems are co-located. theyre all right there. not only are they accessible from underneath and outside the aircraft before the flight, but after the flight and during the flight. from the cabin, you can get to them, as well. >> that needs to be worked on. thank you. this is from mike -- this of e-mailed from reed, "flight 370, has there been any real effort to disqualify a t...

Military radar. the plane had deliberately reversed course, flying back over the peninsula on a heading toward the indian ocean. >> how much of a turn back it made, 20 kilometers, 10? >> we are still looking at that. >> reporter: suddenly, anything became possible. wild and intricate internet theories fed fears of an elaborate terror plot, led by two young iranians who boarded with stolen passports. the only problem, they werent terrorists. just trying to begin new lives in europe. suspicion soo...

>> its an honor to meet you, sir. thank you for your service. >> all right. >> thanks to my new friends at the cnn digital studio. the latest on flight 370 with don lemon starts now. >> good evening, everyone. this is a cnn special report. the mystery of flight 370. im don lemon. we have breaking news for you tonight. planes are in the air right now, searching the southern indian ocean for traces of flight 370. britains telegraph is reporting it has a transcript of 54 minutes of communication be...

>> thanks to my new friends at the cnn digital studio. the latest on flight 370 with don lemon starts now. >> good evening, everyone. this is a cnn special report. the mystery of flight 370. im don lemon. we have breaking news for you tonight. planes are in the air right now, searching the southern indian ocean for traces of flight 370. britains telegraph is reporting it has a transcript of 54 minutes of communication between the cockpit and air traffic control. and u.s. investigators say so far...

So did they do it to evade radar? maybe. >> maybe not the eyewitnesses might be able to pick it up. but who knows how big the area was. lets talk about another terror plot involving al-qaeda and osama bin laden. while we had one of these trials happening in new york, one of the experts who testified, one of the terrorists came forward and said, yeah, there was a plot that i witnessed, four or five malaysians were going to be equipped with a shoe bomb that would essentially get near the cockpit a...

And thats a bad scenario. the other one is it land in a country like indonesia. where it could be used later on as a cruise missile, as the 9/11 hijackers did. thats something we have to use our imagination in these situations. we dont have all the information before us. we have to look at all these possibilities. whether it be toward kazakhstan which i think our radar detection systems would have picked that up or to the south, toward indonesia. which is a friendly country to the terrorists and...

Capital and the 9/11 hijackers a few of them passed through malaysia, and guys, an interesting wrinkle that nobody has been talking about, this week in new york city, there is a major terrorism trial going on in new york right now, and the trial of osama bin ladens son-in-law, and during the trial, a convicted terrorist testified that in 2001, there was an terror plot to activate a asian cell to use a shoe bomb the blast into the cockpit. and look, we dont know obviously, because that is -- >> a...

Six days after the malaysia flight 370 disappeared, the desperate search for answers goes on. one of the key questions, could the jetliner have been a target of a terror plot? "the wall street journal" says this today, im quoting, u.s. counterterrorism officials are pursuing the possibility that a pilot or someone else on board the plane may have diverted it toward an undisclosed location after intentionally turning off the jetliners transponders to avoid radar detection according to one person ...

About what is playing out in ukraine and crimea. >> let me ask about malaysia airlines, you were ambassador in china and know how intelligence and just the whole terror threats in that part of the world. here youve got an airliner disappearing, we dont know what caused it. obviously the intelligence communities are looking but theres been no chatter or hint of anything to indicate a terror plot, but malaysia in the past was an al qaeda strong hold and heading for beijing, possibly now we learned...

Exactly what theyre talk about. its pretty specific although it does not affect any domestic flights here in the united states. just flights in to and states. what does it tell you about the fact that theres no specific intel about the plot? >> well, there doesnt have to be specific intelligence about the plot itself but there can be specific intelligence about the fact theyre training people and saying this is the general tactic were going to use. it might just be a loose plot where they say to...