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Likely conclusion spiking ominous new warnings from the global threat of isis. >> this is huge worldwide problem. >> isis eclipsed al qaeda. >> we need to be weary of flights. >> reporter: the lead investigator noted a loud noise on the cockpit voice recorder but still couldn't concede a bomb as the likely culprit. >> the observation of the aircraft wreckage does not yet allow for either defying the origin of the in flight breakup. >> reporter: u.s., british and israel officials seemed convinced. some crucial unteintelligence pd along to the u.s. and u.k. one focus, the possibility this was an...

Headquarters in syria. >> reporter: the increasingly likely conclusion sparking warnings about the threat from isis. >> this is a huge worldwide problem. >> if this is a bomb by the affiliate of isis, isis eclipsed al qaeda. >> reporter: the lead investigator noted a load noise on the cockpit voice recorder before the plane broke up but wouldn't concede a bomb as the likely culprit. >> the aircraft wreckage does not yet allow for either defying the origin of the in flight breakup. >> reporter: u.s., british and israeli officials seem more convinced. some crucial intelligence coming from commun...

The mode s transponder gives more information but there's a time delay so we really don't know what that was -- what that ground speed was -- or that air speed on the radar was all about. there's a difference like you indicated, between what the airplane senses and the ground speed. so it's all subject to possible dis discrepancies. the climb seems extraordinary. they could have gone through a thunderstorm that causes a lot of updrafts in addition to downdrafts. so weather does seem to be related but, once again, we can't rule out anything. and i think it's important to determine flight breaku...

Yet. what does that tell you? >> well, it tells me a couple of things. first of all, as jim had mentioned, the turnaround, if it's a controlled turn would indicate that someone of human hand did that what is perplexing about that, however is malaysia airlines' operating procedure is if there is trouble on the aircraft, before they execute the turn to come back, they need to contact malaysian airlines and let them know that that's what their intent. that didn't happen. so it does indicate there was some kind of foul play or a communication failure of some kind. but as far as the debris pattern ...

Critical clue at this point. it suggests that whatever happened obviously happened imminently right away and catastrophically in all likelihood. there is always the possibility that they were prevented from communicating ala a terrorist attack. i think a lot of the other scenarios in flight breakup, fire, mechanical failure, decompression, a lot of these are consistent with this one bit of information that we know for certain, which is, there was no communication. that is very unusual if you have an environment that's a protracted event developing where the pilot can at least communicate. that...