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CNNW CNN Newsroom March 16, 2014

Vote calling it illegal. Plus we track every angle of Airlines Flight 370. 25 nations are searching for the missing plane. Coming up short. The airlines disappeared ten days ago. Let me give you the latest developments here. Pakistan says no trace of the missing plane ever showed up on its radar. Right now police are examining a Flight Simulator taken from the pilots home. The search for the jet is getting bigger. Authorities are scow weatheriur and land. We are bringing in our experts to track the unsolved mystery of malasia. It is another day without concrete answers. We have Andrew Stephens live on the ground there. Authorities looking at the flight simlulator and can you tell our viewers what is the most Significant Development today . I think jim, the most Significant Development is here. The reason i say that, 24 hours ago, we were getting information that the trance ponders in the plane were switched off before the captain or who ever said his final words by radio. All right good night. That has been confirm ed to us today. Whatever was happening was happening before that final contact. Today the Police Continue to look at the cabackground of the pilot and the copilot. Police saying this has been put back together again. Royters is reporting that there were programs on how to fly through bad weather. That is a fairly normal program to have on a Flight Simulator. But a significant that they are refocusing on the captain. The copilot as well. You will remember has a history there was an accident three years ago when he let two strangers into the cockpit. Add to that, another ten crew members and 227 passengers on that plane. There is a lot of leg work to get through now. And get background checks on passengers and crew before they can be eliminated on the investigation. Im glad you mentioned that. Nothing has been established linking the pilot and copilot on that. I wonder if i can talk about the search air yaxt there has been a lot of information that they appeared to have this radar data taking it west while they were still focusing the search to the east. How much has that hampered the search efforts in this country . Yeah, significantly on both counts. The ambassador here to malasia today. I pointed out to the west had not been searching for 8 days because they were being told that primary search area was 8 days lost. We know they were very unhappy. It is significant that given just how difficult it was always going to be to find this plane. If it had gone down south into the vast expansions of the ocean. It could be hundreds of miles away from where the plane wept down. There is a concern. The malasians are telling us today that they have to get the radar information from these 11 countries that the plane may have over thrown and that they cant rule out at the moment. They have to get that information still. That is going to require delicate maneuvering. This information will be sensitive. It is not being helped by what is being perceived by the miss step as long the way so far. Lets hope that the cooperation gets better. Thank you very much. Joining me now to discuss the latest developments our cnn safety analyst and Law Enforcement analyst and lawyer, engineer and pilot. Who has investigated all of the major crashes. If i can ask you in light of that experience looking at this development today, as they focus the investigation of this, how important is looking at this flight simlay tore and do you think that is an, unusual thing to have . I think the flight simlay tore is very important. It could be as in knockous or it could be an instrument used in preparation for what happened . Why do i say that . The route that this pilot flew from the time that the system was turned off. The last communication, the turn 180 degree turn, follows by the flight across the malasian peninsula. Military radar had primary hits of this airplane but it was able to traverse with an air force that could have crossed. It wasnt just one that missed it but three. To me, it sounds very practiced and possibly rehearsed. Definitely clear. We know they are pouring over it right now. How big this search area has become extending from the ocean up to land and north asia, and land ande invest gators are telling us, how do you cover that amount of ground . In any accident or investigation it becomes a game of management and resources. You go with the most likely sna scenario first. I wanted to say that. How long and where they are searching. The most important piece of information right now would be gathering the satellite information. The pinging could be within a specific satellites reception area. The important thing is to get the important thing and see where those circles overlap. That is when you focus. Now you have a real place to focus. I dont think that they have enough of that information. They are focusing on the 16 satellites that they use to focus on the 400 frequency on the elts. But that, those satellites are designed not to try angyou late. It is important to put those together and overlap them and see where those pings came from and then a concentrated search cannen sue. 25 countries has been mentioned before. And a lot of information is sensitive. How far do your radars go . How far do your satellites go . Are you confident that will work . You have to get countries like the u. S. , all of the kinds of countries that have resources there. How do they share that freely . Jim, that is extremely difficult. I have run a number of Multi National task force cases like that. You want to work with partners that you have worked with in the past. Or that you have prearranged and had agreements with. You have kcountries trying to come together and when they come in with their own ways of doing business or if they come in with a great deal of information so that you can over whelm vest gators it can make it more difficult. It may not be a blessing to have so many countries to jump in. The management of the command post, the crisis center. How the agencies are going to be aligned. That is more easily done if you planned in advance to do it. During the middle of a crisis is a difficult proposition. It is an Unusual Alliance of countries to work together. David, tom, arthur. I want you to stay with us. I want to invite our viewers to tweet in questions. You think of things that you dont think of. Tweet them and well try to answer as many as we can on the air. There are many theorys of what happened. Including what if the plane did not crash . Not that one. That one. The one who seems like hes already got the job cause he studied all the right courses from the getgo. 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Le the government reported today that they have no radar data which would have been through their air space. If you go through the eastern border, that area is one of weak radar coverage. And then you are free to travel another 7,000 miles. That would be embarrassing to the chinese to reveal a vulnerability to them. We are talking 25,000 feet. We know the plane has to dip at least at 45,000 feet. But if the plane was at 45,000 feet, it would be the referred route. So that is avoiding the redar. You could have to get this plane on the ground. It is one of the theories that we know. But would that be doable . How skilled would the pie late have to be to land it on a unused air field or Old Military Base . How doable is that . The sophistication it takes to turn off the equipment and the order and type of systems. What concerns me so much is 10,000 data points. Not a lot of people would know that is what i have to shut off first. So, this is an advanced commercial aircraft. This shows a lot of preplanning. This took years and years to put together. I find it difficult to believe that after that level of sophistication that they would let the aircraft go crash into the ocean. You are saying that level of skill just quickly to turn off the systems and have the knowledge would allow the pilot to land that plane . Well, if they had turned off the systems first, the information would have been sent back to the airlines and there would have been a clue right off the bat that, that aircraft had been commendeared. Can we use satellites to track and find planes . One of those things is that they have a they are parked over lotions that might be a problem that they want to keep track of. Thanks to all of you. I know we are going to have another chance to talk to you. We know that flight 370 was pinked up as an unidentified object. But up next new information on why that didnt happen. Yes not just a start up. An upstart. Gotta get going. Gotta be good. Good . Good. Growth is the goal. How do we do that . I talked to ups. Theyll help us out. New technology. Smart advice. We focus on the business and they take care of the logistics. Ups . Good going. We get good. Thats great. Great. Great. Great. Great. Great. Great. Great. Great. all great i love logistics. There is new information today on the search for flight 270 out of pakistan. Officials there claim they didnt see the jumbo jet on their radars or they would have scrambled the military to respond. We talk about how large the area is being searched. Granted if we take that fact for face value, there would be incentive to see it, but looking at the map, why would it be important that pakistan was not on the path of the plane . There is a chance that the plane may have speneaked south. On an efficient flight path maybe Something Like that could have happened. So the most likely chance of this line being the correct possible area of landing now, because the government did say that these lines may in dikate that the plane was on the ground, that is the shortest distance to get there. Otherwise they run out of fuel. How did they get here . This is one arc of a gps ping. But we dont have the gps. We only have g. You need at three at least and they will cross at one point and that would have been right there. We have one satellite and that is out here 22,000 miles in space. It pinged the place and they know the time and angle to do that and they also know the signal strength to get back to that satellite. That is the same distance. Now this is a circle looking flat at it. And this is where the arcs come from. If you think about this circle here, the plane couldnt get there. So lets get rid of that, gone. Now, the government says, you know what, guys we have good Radar Systems through here. We would have seen it. Now we have two arcs. And if we fly up to the northern arc there is a lot of territory. At 8 11 am it was on that line somewhere or on the bottom of the line down here. If it is down here, jim, there is not any land that i see within landing distance within fuel distance to get to. It is all a matter of how much gas was in that plane. The last ping they had was 8 11. The government says it may have been on the ground. The 7 00 am 11 minutes after may not have been very far from the 11 ping and the plane may not have been moving and that is why they think the plane may be on the ground. That arc is a guide but doesnt mean that it is confined to the red lines of that arc. But that is the best guide that they have at this point. Airline safety change big time after 9 11. Up next we look at the lessons that we learned back then that may help us find flight 370 today. Who drove to the control room [ woman ] driverless mode engaged. Find parking space. [ woman ] parking space found. [ male announcer ]. 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We have california congressman joining us. Thank you very much for joining us, congressman. You bet. I want to get to a point or concern. If 13 years after 9 11, a plane can, and it has not been proven yet, can be commendeared, does that mean that something similar in the u. S. Can happen is that a concern . Does it expose a vowulnervulner . It checks against the stolen passport database. You dont know who is flying on your plane. They are more for americans traveling on overseas or on flights traveling in the United States. We have put in terms of passengers getting on the planes and their luggage as well. There is a multilaried approach as well. And we are seeing that. It had nothing to do with the disappearance of this plane. That may have more to do with the pilots or the crew. En even there. We scrutinize the crew on that. Airline flights are a safe way to go. When, and you and i talk about this peer oddically when there is a challenge or threat to planes, we were talking about bombs being brought onboard, when that happens sometimes you will see changes to u. S. Security at airports, there were some new security advances at the sochi olympics because there were some sort of attacks there. Will this lead to changes here . Longer lines and more rigorous checks of passport data . It is possible that it will lead us to greater scrutiny with the crew of the aircraft. These could be things that we have taken action to correct. Making sure that people arent taking action with stolen documents. The hope may be that we see improved airline ability around the world. And tracking aircraft. We will be looking at those systems like the black box and determining better safeguards. So that pilots cant turn off the communications. So those kinds of changes are possible but i dont think you will see them manifest in longer lines in the airport. I have been getting a lot of questions over twitter. Why is it that they are able to switch off the systems. You are saying that might change down the line . There could be changes that airlines corporate with the feedback of the ntsb. That thewill make it easier to d aircraft. And without having to retrieve a black box from 15,000 feet under the water. Those changes could happen over ti time. Thank you very much. How this flight might affect us here at home. Several u. S. Agencies are investigating this. As a business owner, im constantly putting out fires. So i deserve a Small Business credit card with amazing rewards. With the spark cash card from capital one, i get 2 cash back on every purchase, every day. I break my back around here. Finally someones recognizing me with unlimited rewards meetings start at 11, cindy. [ male announcer ] get the spark Business Card from capital one. Choose 2 cash back or double miles on every purchase, every day. Whats in your wallet . 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