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Classifying this as a criminal investigation now. meantime the malaysian prime minister arrives in australia today. he talks with australian officials about the search effort. that's the latest. >> hold on for a moment because i want to bring in our law enforcement analyst, former fbi assistant director tom fuentes and our cnn aviation analyst and former ntsb managing director peter gold along with our aviation analyst, former 777 pilot, mark weiss. thanks very much. the search area, peter, keeps shifting. first the south china sea, southern indian ocean 700 miles north, to the southern indian...

In the meeting. some of these families, by the way, came back from beijing to be closer to the authorities here to make their voices heard, to try to get some answers. but there's nothing new. because usually if there is something new, we hear about it fairly quickly. some in the families say, look, we're tired of all these details. we just want the answers to our two simple questions. the authorities are saying we can't give those answers to you because we don't have them. >> sara sidner in kuala lumpur. let's get back to rene march along with mark weiss, peter goelz is also here and miles ...

The table. >> it sounds, mark, and you're a 777 pilot, that the focus is on the pilots and the co-pilots because they had the ability, the skills, the wherewithal to do this if, in fact, it was done in the way it has been described. >> well, it certainly appears that the focus of the attention now is on the cockpit, the pilot and the co-pilot. but, again, go back to that, it's based on the cockpit. woe still don't know who was in cockpit, if there was an invited or uninvited guest. it focuses on the cockpit and the easiest ones at the moment are the pilot and co-pilot. >> i can only assume, pe...

Yet the airliner says boeing and its 777, the same model of plane missing, is also partly to plane. it says the plane's navigation instruments, airplane software, led the crew to believe the jet was maintaining enough speed to land safely. in its own documents, boeing says not so. placing the blame squarely on the pilots. the equipment it says had been functioning normally. >> there's almost 1200 or so 777s flying around. that hasn't been a problem with any of the other carriers that i'm aware of. >> reporter: according to mark weiss, the airline has a weak argument, maintaining that safe air ...

Plus crew members, 239 people all together, that doesn't sound like a whole lot of interviews. >> it's not a lot of interviews. but i agree with tom, they've got to know more than what they're saying. they're holding back some. let's hope that it's actually accurate information that has an impact on this solution. >> mark, is there something they should be doing, based on your flying these 777s, and let's not forget, not only 239 people aboard this plane but this is a u.s.-made boeing 777, one of the most popular jetliners in the world. there are about 1,200 flying around the world, new ones u...