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After people lost all communications with this plane. people meaning the people on the ground. we know that the plane had some seven hours worth of fuel so at this point, at that last point that the satellite picked it up, it was possibly close to running out of fuel or perhaps at some point it ran out of fuel. >> rene marsh, thank you so much for the update. >> let's bring in cnn law enforcement analyst tom fuentes. tom, i want to look at this map. if we can put the map up with tom so viewers understand the context of this question. we see these two paths here. the southern corridor, if this ...

That's about 2500 miles for people to understand. that's just -- it almost seems impossible to search that area. >> well, it is impossible. keep the map up. you recall that the last known -- if the military radar tape is true, and again this is another thing that seems wishy-washy. if it is true that the plane was last headed for the indians ocean from the strait of malacca, that's the indian ocean. that's a vast area. if you. >> you a jet into the indian ocean and it took off for another three, four hours, that plane could be anywhere and candidly there's not much in the indian ocean. there c...

Wasted in certain areas. i was actually very surprised that they just simply closed that lead on the iranians. finish. martha: why? >> well, i mean, the whole thing -- it started to develop pretty quickly where we, that we had the two pieces of puzzle, then they linked those two together with this mysterious individuals. i know that these things go on all the time under the radar in that area, but they don't go on in that area on a plane that disappeared. so i wouldn't exactly write that out. i think that's an important thing to look at. martha: that's a great point. when you look at this circ...

Direction. you do the math. you're now talking about -- keep that map up, and if we could expand, it i know you can't, but if you were, to you know, google map it, you're now talking about a huge area that would even be in the indian ocean. >> wow. >> of where potentially -- we're talking thousands of miles potentially of potential area of where this plane could be. it's just -- it's just vast. >> wow. >> all right. tom costello, thank you so much for the update. here with us now is robert mcintosh, former ntsb investigator in charge, and, bob, you also helped to run accident investigations on...

Cockpit, one of the pilots took over, is highly unlikely to me, for one reason that in the past when that's happened, it was when one of the pilots had left the cabin to use the restroom, the door was locked and then that other pilot took control. for that to happen during that phase of flight going into vietnam air space, highly unlikely, because during that time you need both pilots to do the transition. you're doing cross checks and double checks with each other during that transition time. so the thought that that happened seems unlikely to me. >> we had just a map up earlier, just a secon...