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>> reporter: we do know that the police have talked to the family. we know that the pilot's family has not been at the house recently. we don't -- we're not really able to confirm whether or not they left the day before this flight happened. those little details, there's a lot of inconsistent reporting in the press. as you know from watching what's happened this last week, the authorities have also not really been consistent in exactly the whereabouts of the pilot's family. >> appreciate you looking into that and also there has been a lot of -- today there was another report, local media repor...

Then you say, okay, if it was something catastrophic or something very fast that overwhelmed acars, then how come the plane was still flying around for hours if in fact the radar information is correct. >> and that's exactly the conundrum in this case. that's why as the minister said, this is no ordinary -- no normal investigation. this is why the ceo of malaysia airlines said this is unprecedented. this is why we're talking about it at such great length because nobody can come up with a scenario that makes sense with the facts that we know so far. >> richard, it's good to have you on. martin ...

I mean do you feel -- obviously there's a lot of countries involved in this. is it pretty well covered? do you feel like more assets would help? or was that almost diminishing returns? >> well, it depends how far south and into the indian ocean you look. i mean i can tell you the indian ocean goes so far, there probably isn't enough ships and aircraft in the world to search every inch of it. if you take a map of the united states, superimpose that stretching from the north to the south indian ocean, it's kind of like saying, all right, i want to find a person somewhere between new york and cal...

1:19 the pilot says -- the co-pilot says "all right, good night." two minutes later, everything goes haywire. he's in a situation trying to control the aircraft. we know it was going up or down. we know right then they tried to turn back. the transponder went off. acars never transmitted again. it's a different scenario, we're back to looking at catastrophic failure. the one problem with that, anderson, how does a plane that has a catastrophic failure go on to fly seven more hours? there's also a window for the hijack theory but a very narrow one. this is going to be something that's going to ...

The ground crew, every engineer who touched that plane, and they'll look -- they'll try to find relationships between them. are there any, whether they're social, professional. were there last-minute changes to the crew? were there last-minute additions or deletions in terms of cargo? what's the mechanical history of the plane? in a very detailed way. one of the most surprising things is that the malaysians talked about going to the home of the pilots on march 9th but didn't say that they actually searched the home until the 15th. we're used to in the united states both the search and the inve...