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The question in who was behind that. there are a lot of warning signs along the way. the fact the trans ponder was turned off, the flight pattern changed abruptly. we have two iranians with stolen passport that's were not checked with interpol which we would have done in this country. one-way tickets bought with cash that the hijackers do, there are a lot of questions raised. one thing is very clear, chris. this was an intentional, deliberate act that unfortunately probably killed 239 people. >> as we said, they're now focusing on the crew and the passengers. any evidence that you have heard s...

We'll ask retired colonel dan hampton. >> good morning, thank you for having me back. >> you say this is unforgivable the way the malaysian officials have handled this. it has taken a week essentially to go into the pilot's home. >> yeah, it would have occurred, i think, to anybody else running this investigation that when the likelihood that this was a catastrophic failure of some kind had passed, that the next thing you do is you try to i.d. the person responsible, because if you know who it is, then you can figure out why they are doing what they are doing and make an educated guess about w...

Altitudes in how that team of pilots. we don't know plane going up and down. i'm divided here. there could have been inability by the pilots, all those flying the plane to then it went down or there could have been a struggle. if that is the case. then i have five or six theories as to what would have been the terrorist case. we don't have the evidence now. >> hank, listening to sort of the facts that have been disclosed by the "new york times" today, climbing to 45,000 feet above its service limit of 43100 making a sharp turn west and descending unevenly to 20,000 feet and cruising below norm...

>> well, this new information is kind of going pack to what i said to you last night. remember i said there's three factors, the airplane, the crew talking about the pilots and an outside force intervening. remember i said to you that when you program the fms, which is the flight management system to make a flight, it's going to fly that flight unless some human being changes that flight pattern. so when you lost the transponder, which last night i told you specifically that somebody turned it off. who did, that's another story. but it was turned off. >> you're saying it couldn't be mechanical...

All right, we're back now with the fox news alert. we're back with shepard smith. let me ask you, when greg mentioned the payne stewart plane, that had a fixed -- the reason it kept flying is it had a flight plan and it kept going, and eventually, it ran out of fuel and crashed. in this case, the flight plan obviously was not followed. somebody or something had to alter the flight plan, correct? >> that's why this idea, this is where they lost contact, after apparently climbing at the end. then it made a turn. if you have a rapid depressurization in the cabin and that happens here, you have th...