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They're saying. >> for the constraints of time that you have, you do have sources and you are of the belief that our government in particular has a lot more information. can you confirm that you have sources that also are adding to your theory? >> not now, i can't. as you know i'm in the witness protection program right now. >> okay, fair enough. >> i don't want to put you -- >> i'm a face to face person. yeah, and rolls royce, get rolls royce and get boeing's comments. they know a lot about from that engine data. because if the sat com was working, the sat com was working because it was pingi...

>> i think any pilot is loathe to question the abilities of another professional pilot. this captain, in particular, had a lot of experience. however, i keep trying to jump on some logic train that would lead me away from the crew and coincidence keeps getting in the way. the coincidence, for example, that just two minutes after the last communication, the transponder was turned off. that the fact that the airplane turned just as it was transferring from malaysian airspace into vietnamese airspace where they would have additional radar coverage happen. also the fact that the airplane was flo...

Flew out toward penang on the western coast of malaysia, out of the straits of malacca and the pings they received from the engine data aligned almost perfectly with an airway heading northwest toward sri lanka. >> i want to talk about that theory. but first, karen, i wanted to ask you if -- there's been a lot of confusion about what exactly the transponder is. it's a frequency that's in there in the cockpit you can set. have you ever had occasion as a pilot to turn the transponder off? is there some aspect of that that doesn't seem as incriminating or mysterious or bizarre as it appears to la...

>> days were looking in what we now believe was the wrong area mostly because of the incompetence of the malaysian government and really wasn't until the united states got involved and started coming forward with these data collected from engine transmissions that we realized it was wrong. why was there a lag period where the u.s. government was not really involved in this investigation? >> i think the united states has been involved from the beginning. i think one of the aspects that really hasn't been brought up that we need to look at is the united states has a lot of capability, especially...

The search, but this is not a normal investigation. in this case, the information we have to process further and further afield. engine data. yesterday, we rejected a media report in which unnamed officials said that engine data showed the plane had kept flying for hours after last contact. we checked with boeing and rolls royce, who said the reports were not true. and i quote -- this is a statement from rolls royce -- "rolls royce continues to provide report to the authorities and malaysian airlines. rolls royce concurs with the statement made on thursday, the 13th of march, by the malaysian'...