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Analysis there. but what is your gut feeling with a lot of expertise in your locker about what you think is probably happened here? >> we have increasingly detailed theories based on very little information. it's very hard to say. it is easy to reconcile the changes in altitude given the lack of fidelity of the ra radar. the malaysians won't say how good their radar is. that's a defense secret. it's harder to reconcile the changes in direction. people will postulate, maybe there were lithium batteries on board, maybe they had a fire, progressive electrical failure. we just don't have the infor...

And more than one person may be involved. manually changing the plane's course. malaysian military radar showed the plane climbing and diving erratically after its transponder went dead as the "new york times" first reported. is it a sign of a fight for control in the cockpit? we'll get right to our breaking news. dramatic breaking news. joining me now cnn's barbara starr at the pentagon, also "new york times" reporting matthew wald and john ostrow from the "wall street journal." john the "wall street journal" in the last few moments has broken this extraordinary development in this story whic...

Systems of taircraft from underneath the airplane? unfathomable to me. >> unfathomable. try to put some fathom into it for me. >> this airplane was flying over the ocean. radar is only good for about 200 miles from shore. so you don't have to fly at low altitude to be undetected once out get beyond the range of radar. as we discovered on 9/11 in this country and certainly in places like malaysia and thailand, there are not fighter planes waiting to scramble to chase unidentified aircraft. it just doesn't work that way. the ocean is very large, very dark and very easy to disappear into. >> okay...