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Night. given this new information, the plane was way off course when it lost contact. what does that tell you? >> it changes a lot from what we talked about last night. the people need to understand what it takes for a 777 to become invisible. everything on that airplane is triple redundant. the electrical systems. the charging systems. the battery systems. communication systems. even the transponders are on completely separate buses. the chance that all the electrical system was out of that aircraft would have indicated a much more massive failure of some kind. so to think that all of that th...

Another piece of the jigsaw. we do not have the picture yet. but we have a very useful, important piece of the jigsaw. and i think drew may well be right, what's going to happen over the next 24 to 48 hours, which will be another piece of the jigsaw. but anybody who's read one of these reports, i mean, we could be talking about completely off beam, about a mechanical failure, navigational failure, any form of failure. >> okay, thank you. stand by, stand by. many more pieces. and we'll get some answers for you on the other side of the break. we're going to go live to kuala lumpur next.

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...

Tom, what do you make of this latest information about the positioning of this plane? >> hi, don. same thing everybody else is saying. you still can't rule out some partial mechanical failure, enough to eliminate communication but not enough to bring the plane immediately down. but you can't rule out either the act of terrorism. obviously appears to not be a catastrophic explosion or the plane wouldn't be airborne for another hour and a half. but it could include somebody gaining access to that cockpit and taking over the controls or forcing the pilot and co-pilot to fly where they wanted to f...

First light, which is probably four hours away from now. that may take longer than that, because there already has been assets deployed in that region, v haven't found anything yet. we have known about the possibility of this u-turn. now it looks like it's a confirmation. >> thank you very much. i want to bring in now a former airline captain and crash investigator, david funk. good afternoon to you, sir. my question is, why no communication? that's what many people are asking. why no distress call, no communication? >> well, there would really be two possibilities. one is they had an absolute...