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Could have landed somewhere. a plane full of people, 239 people, doesn't just disappear. so where is flight 370? our big story. it's been a week almost the fate of flight 370 remains unknown. we have new information tonight. barbara starr what do you know? >> reporter: good evening, piers. a senior u.s. official now telling cnn exactly what you said, there is a strong likelihood the flight is at the bottom of the indian ocean. why do they come to this conclusion? the malaysians have now given the u.s. in the last 24 hours some access to key data, essentially pings from the airplane as it flew ...

Plane, how easy would it be to land a plane like that, given the wide area it could have landed, without any radar detection? >> well, i think if you get low enough you don't worry about radar. you can fly this thing on what we call map of the earth where you're right down on the deck. could this cap have done that? i don't know. but i would love to see the authorities get into his home and download whatever is left on his simulator. because that's a very sophisticated simulator. and he may have done a lot of practice. it would take a lot of skill and practice to bring that airplane that low i...

Unprecedented situation all the way around, piers. >> barbara, stay with us. want to bring in david suse author of why planes crash. aviation expert jim tillman and matthew robinson, air safety investigator. welcome to all of you. let me start with you, jim tillman. we've talked before this week about the various twists and turns quite literally of the fate of this plane. what do you make of these extraordinary new revelations? >> well, they're just about as confusing as everything else i've heard about this event from the very beginning. for example, let's talk about pings. it's my understand...

Want to bring in david suse author of why planes crash. aviation expert jim tillman and matthew robinson, air safety investigator. welcome to all of you. let me start with you, jim tillman. we've talked before this week about the various twists and turns quite literally of the fate of this plane. what do you make of these extraordinary new revelations? >> well, they're just about as confusing as everything else i've heard about this event from the very beginning. for example, let's talk about pings. it's my understanding that the devices don't ping until they are hitting water, until they get ...

>> barbara starr, thank you very much indeed for that report. joining me now on the phone with more on the trail of the plane is "wall street journal" reporter john stroud. thank you for joining me. you just heard barbara starr's report there. clearly what seems to now be indisputable is the fact that these pings were heard suggesting the plane carried on flying for four to five hours after we had been led to believe in the first few days. what is now conjecture or what the u.s. authorities believe is that it landed in the indian ocean. but you have a different theory. tell me what that is. >>...