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People on ships and in planes are already in the zone so he says only use satellite images when you don't have anything else. bill? >> all right. rene marsh, appreciate your reporting there. let's bring in our cnn aviation analysts, miles o'brien, david soucy. good to have you both back. miles, what do you make of this new emphasis on the malaysian airline on cockpit security, that month one pilot could ever be alone up there? is that a law already in the states? >> it is. that's standard operating procedure, post 9/11 procedure in the u.s., the reinforced cockpit door. anytime the flight crew...

Criminal investigation. extensive interviews have been conducted with people who know the pilots well. malaysia airlines also adds tight nd cockpit security on their planes. let's get to jim. what are some of those new measures? >> reporter: they ininvolve the cockpit and who is allowed inside the cockpit. they involve the security procedures that would be in place when a pilot has to take a bathroom break, other things like that. malaysia airlines isn't discussing them specifically, but there was a memo sent out to employees advising them of all of that. meantime, we've got the inspector gene...

Weeks under water. >> if they get near it, they should be able to hear it. >> if they get near the helicopter, lure the -- >> if they hear this they will be able to find it? >> i'm sure. i just want to point out the things that go wrong with planes are maintenance, so this air worthiness director, this ad, if that was not addressed and something was wrong in the cockpit, they didn't have good cockpit security, maybe just an unruly passenger distracted them long enough, that could be a reason. the other thing is the wreckage spread out all over the place. sullenberger landed without any warning...

Got turned off. something that piqued my interest, a reporter in the "wall street journal" said one of the co-pilots of this flight allowed two women who he did not know to sit in the cockpit from takeoff to landing and he's flirting with them throughout the flying, but just the idea that he's willing to break sort of modern protocol and let people he doesn't know just sit in the cockpit with him raises a lot of questions about just sort of where his head is at in terms of cockpit security. in this sort of investigation, how much do you want to look at the history and the biography of the pilo...

There could be others involved on the plane. the hijackers on 9/11 were not using false passports. >> exactly. i mean, that's not necessarily required of a terrorist. if the terrorist is a member of a cell and he's not known to anybody and he can board with his own name. others who may be known would want maybe a false identity. it can't be ruled out because you know, there was an ntsb expert on msnbc the other day who said that malaysian airlines had had some difficulty with cockpit security, they relaxed in the flight deck door. if so someone could charge up there and put a knife to the pilo...