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wanted to get to africa. a law enforcement source tells cnn the teenager told fbi investigators that he was trying to get to somalia to see his mother. the boy, who now lives in santa clara, california, told classmates he missed his home country. why did he choose a hawaiian airliner? the fbi believes it was the first plane he saw. students also say he was new to this public high school. only a few weeks. what can you tell us about him? >> well, from what i know of, he was a really shy person, you know, he didn't really talk a lot. he mostly kept to himself. >> reporter: we're learning more about the time line, that the boy jumped the airport fence at approximately 1:00 a.m. sunday morning. the plane didn't leave until just before 8:00 a.m. which means he would have been on the tarmac or in that wheel well for approximately seven hours before it even took off. the flight itself was five hours. in san jose, passengers expressing disbelief over how the teenager could go
missed his home country. why did he choose an airliner? the fbi believes it was the first plane he saw. >> describe his personality. >> quiet kid. you wouldn't see him doing this. probably the last person you would expect. >> reporter: students also say he was new to the to this public high school. only a few weeks. >> what can you tell us about him? >> well, from what i know of, he was a really shy person, you know, he didn't really talk a lot. he mostly kept to himself. >> reporter: we're also learning more about the timeline. the boy jumped the airport fence at approximately 1:00 a.m. sunday morning. the plane didn't leave until 8:00 a.m., which means he would have been on the tarmac or in that wheel well for approximately seven hours before it even took off. the flight itself was five hours. in san jose, passengers expressing disbelief over how the teenager could go undetected. >> we're supposed to have all the security. spending billions of dollars in tax dollars since 9/11. kind of scary sometimes. >> reporter: authorities are using their discretion and not charging the juvenile with any
aircraft search, where the air crafts come in every day. and they can download their data, exchange it over the internet. when it comes to these ships gathering hundreds of megabytes of data an hour, somewhere that has to get coordinated where it can be brought to a central location and have somebody handle these efforts. the more people you get involved, although there's plenty of equipment out there, it just becomes a more challenging scenario. >> sounds like the challenges continue to mount. at least there are plans, and they're asking the questions, and again, the possibility of widening the search, really seems to be something they're exploring. how to deploy resources, including other search assets, the ones you just outlined. fred hegg, thank you so much. we'll watch as we get the new information on the hunt for this 777. coming up, the questions keep coming. how in the world did a teenager manage to hop an airport fence, climb up inside the wheel well of an airplane and survive a five-hour flight to hawaii.
airports, particularly in malaysia but globally as well. we all know by recent history that security at major international airports is not what it should be. a couple of very quick examples that could raise the question of terror in this particular case. in brussels, just last year, there was a $300 million diamond burglary within the airport aircraft operations area. three vans, the criminals drove them right through an airport fence, crossed two active runways, held the pilots and armoured guards at gunpoint. no security, no police response. they actually escaped and were not captured until approximately three or four months later. similar examples in the new york and metropolitan area. newark airport had an intoxicated man breach a security system, climb over the fence, on to the active runways