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Plane. the only thing he said that makes sense is perhaps one pilot locking the other out of the cockpit and then turning the plane around on some weird kind of suicide mission because nothing else seems to make sense. total electrical failure, you know, some kind of explosive decompression of plane, none of it fits all of the indications, all of the evidence here. >> well, we're not going to get to the bottom of this until we find the black boxes, this we find this aircraft. now, that is a possible scenario. however, we're talking about acars circuit breakers popping, we're talking about radi...

Stage, with clear skies and a veteran pilot. then it disappeared from radar. no warning, no distress call. there were conflicting reports about whether it may have tried to turn back. >> nothing causes an airplane to come down from 35,000 feet, other than things that can be catastrophic. >> reporter: things like total structural failure, loss of both engines, complete electrical failure or pilot error. two passengers who boarded using stolen passports have raised concerns about terrorism. >> there's at least 40,000 stolen passports every year. it leaves us very vulnerable, not just to terroris...

It's hard for me to imagine an electrical failure, to have total electrical failure. that's just something out of the blue. the aircraft really needs to have electrical power. it's designed that way. there are all kinds of redundancies built into the system so you don't end up flying blind, so to speak. so i think that we are dealing with a situation here where the questions still are looming largely over this full atmosphere. did the airplane actually crash, or did it land someplace? >> that's a big question. because the airplane could have landed and there could be no communications. or peop...

Route and this sort of dogleg that it took, in your mind, does that tell you that they had trouble, just good-old fashioned guiding? >> it's called dead reckoning or pilot flying by looking at the ground with a map. that very well could have been the case. if they did have a total electrical failure, if they were down to a map, a compass, and a clock, which is how many ships still navigate around the world. all our navigators are taught to do that. pilots are trained to do that from the very beginning. that could be very much why they turned back. go to the last place where you knew you were f...

People, when you look at this new information from this malaysian official and you look at the route of that plane, what do you think happened? do you think it was catastrophic electrical failure? do you think it was possibly a hijacking or terrorism? what do you make of it? >> i think it doesn't answer either question. you don't have the catastrophic mechanical failure that blew it out of the sky like twa-800 had. but because it still stayed in the air another hour and a half after whatever happened. but if those transponders and all communications in that plane were shut off deliberately, th...