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Captain, mark matthews, he tells me the search area has to be a thousand times smaller than it is right now for him to have a good look at the ocean bed there. wolf? >> what a daunting, daunting challenge. paula newton in perth for us, thank you. let's bring in our panel of experts to get their perspective on these latest developments. mark weise is an aviation analyst, former 777 pilot for american airlines. peter goelz, managing director. tauchl tom fuentes, former assistant director of the fbi. peter, first to you. what do you make of this revised final communication from "all right, good...

Remote control from the ground in the event of an emergency. in a situation of distress, in this scenario, the pilot could flick a switch or maybe some kind of a sensor could trigger the autopilot. the autopilot could then be activated by radio or satellite. and our aviation analyst, mark weise, explains what would happen next. >> everything now that the pilots who try to do would be inconsequential. because the ground controller would be handling its flight path, its landing gear, its flap system, configuring the aircraft for a landing to a safe place. and really taking away hostile threat. >...

22 days since flight 370 vanished without a trace. apparently not a whole lot closer to discovering what happened than we were three weeks ago. many of you have posted questions using the #370qs. let's bring back our panel to try to get some answers. our aviation analyst, mark weise, and peter goelz and tom fuentes. peter, let's start with you. since the new search area is more northern and calmer, would there also be more debris from regular ocean traffic? >> who knows? but that is an area that is well-populated with we have got to get eyes on the water and pick up some of it and get a look a...

Event, like you referenced egyptair, two years before that, silk air. >> that was a pilot suicide too. >> agreed by the western experts. not accepted by the country. >> by indonesian. and the egyptians never accepted it in their case. and that's why i -- people have said to me, the malaysians might be reluctant to accept that notion. if, in fact, we -- we don't know if it is. we don't want to convict the pilot without any real hard evidence. but here's a hypothetical question, and you're a 777 pilot, mark. if a pilot were to do such a horrible thing, this 53-year-old pilot, could he do the who...

And i think we have tried to indicate that, that this was never a matter of days or even weeks. it's going to be a matter of months and years. and i think that everyone involved on the ground there ought to be knowledgeable about not raising expectations. you know, every piece of junk floating in the ocean isn't a possible, you know, piece of evidence. >> because there's a lot of junk. >> there's a lot of stuff. >> it's been moved around by the currents and waves and whatever. >> and people get their expectations up. the family members are tortured by it. we need to just get into the hard grin...