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And to a person, they walked out of the room. very embarrassing scenes for the malaysian authorities of them giving a briefing to effectively nobody. so there is this backlash from the families here in beijing. as you say, some major travel agencies have been boycotting malaysian airlines. wolf? >> david mckenzie in beijing for us. thank you very much. meanwhile british lawyers are offering a new theory about flight 370. they're suggesting the plane was actually downed by a blow torch fired in the cockpit similar to a fire on board an egypt air boeing 777 three years ago. let's bring in the fo...

Cockpit. you just turn the button, it's off. the acars system is a little bit more complicated to turn that off. i don't know if you can do it from strictly sitting in the cockpit or if you have to leave the cockpit and go to the underbelly. how do you turn off the acars system? >> the only reason you'd be pulling a circuit breaker in the cockpit. you could turn off part of acars system. >> that would turn it off. >> the only reason you'd be pulling a circuit breaker in the cockpit by manual operations is to prevent, say, a fire from continuing. it's really to prevent a bus, an electric bus fr...

If we can't find all those, then we will start pointing fingers and say all sorts of things and it's very difficult for us to defend. >> the captain's family has gone into seclusion after voluntarily talking with investigators. but his son, seth, talked with local media telling them whatever i have read has not changed my heart. i have ignored these speculations. i know who my father is. we understood each other. jim clancy, cnn, kuala lumpur. >> so continued speculation about the pilot's role is taking an emotional toll clearly on the families. joining us now mark weiss, an aviation analyst, ...

Affairs. >> and there's a lot of people who would like video cameras, peter, in those cockpits as well, live video cameras if you will, streaming back to ground control. but pilots unions don't like that idea very much. >> no. the ntsb has made recommendations to have live streaming inside cockpits, but it has been opposed. but you've got three technologies. you've got the streaming technology, you've got deployable recorders. and each of those technologies have some drawbacks, but they can be overcome quickly. >> yeah. here's another question, this is for mark. could electrical failure blacko...

Questions are continuing to pour in from our viewers about the fate of flight 370. our aviation analysts mark weiss, peter goelz. this is first for you. why can't satellites be viewed live in realtime? >> well, because the technology is the satellite views it, then transfers it to a ground station, which then transfers it to a station -- >> sometimes it takes three or four days for the image. it's like sending your kodak film to the drugstore to get it developed in a few days. there's got to be a faster way to do it. >> well, there probably is. but somebody described it as looking at the earth...