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Paints a target, gives you know good information. seeing that plane in the straights of malacca. then the inmarsat satellites which are getting this handshake ping. that's an incredibly small amount of information to base this investigation on. so we have that and basically using old-fashioned advanced algebra and geometry, the experts have been able to look and plot what they believe are these search zones. but quite frankly, at this stage of the investigation we would consider success finding just a piece of that plane. to find those so-called black boxes is highly unlikely. and most people ...

Investigators with information. they're steering the investigation as they often do. the foreign investigators have not had experience doing this. >> what knowledge could boeing have that the malaysian officials don't have about what went on here? >> we know there were acars messages. they're also dealing with a company they've had a long relationship with inmarsat. who has done the satellite reconstruction. they're privy to the information the malaysian government is giving it, and other sources, figuring out burn rates, altitude rates, information that only they have the expertise. >> you so...

Type of mechanical or catastrophic event in the cockpit that forced that aircraft off course, to change heading, to apparently want to go to the nearest land at the nearest suitable airport. but there was no distress call. the acars was off. the transponders were off. that still leads me to believe that was human intervention. again, because the waypoints, the points, the flight path for that aircraft was put in and agreed to on the ground and in the flight management system. that was human intervention. >> and the suspicion has been, as you know, peter, in this no man's land before they enter...

Going on. >> keith mas billion dack, if only the final two hours are that which is recorded and if in fact this plane was flying on its own devices for several hours, those tapes could be blank? >> absolutely. welcome to intelligence work, law enforcement work, welcome to crash investigation, michael. it is piecing together a puzzle and every new piece of information has to be dealt with in the context of what you already have and what your assumptions are. >> there's such frustration, i feel for those families. but here in the states, around water coolers, everybody says, my god, with the tec...

>> malaysian sources are telling cnn, they're deeply suspecting some sort of criminal act to make that plane go off its regular route, towards beijing. are you ready to make that conclusion? >> no, sir. to me, you know, to turn back and descend would be a normal pilot reaction to an emergency. we have no evidence that there was an emergency. or a threat. we really can't choose here. if it was a threat, then obviously it could be a crime. it could simply be the pilot -- at this point, we can't tell the difference between hero and terrorist. >> well, what -- let's talk a little bit about the not...