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Up to now, we know it was flying at 35,000 feet. i speculated earlier it was at 12,000 feet. everybody said no, it couldn't have been that. they just plain don't know. they're trying to do everything they can with what they have, but they don't have much. >> richard? >> they have two pieces of information. the radar data after the 1:19 transponder switchoff. the military data in the straits of malacca and they have the satellite hand shakes. the prime minister of malaysia and australia, the transport minister, the wing commander, everybody has said, this is the best they've got. that's why i'm...

That it does. and what it tells us -- and i was listening to what andrew had to say there. you know, he's right with all of those questions as we look at this. i think they are going back to the original military data that was obtained, it was recorded radar that showed this plane. initially, it wasn't spotted here in malaysia as it turned around and headed out toward the indian ocean. they've gone back to those records, they've re-examined the routing of the plane, the path that it took. now, what's not answered is whether or not they had additional radar data from thailand, even from indones...

Either they're watching and they don't want their adversesaries to know they're watching, or they're not watching and they don't want them to know there's gaps and wholes in the surve surveillan surveillance. in some of these countries, take pakistan, the military is its own entity, it calls the shots, and the government is not in a position to force them to turn it over when they're sort of in charge. other countries may have secrecy laws and there's a whole separate thing here where malaysia has never handled this sort of thing before. this is all first time for them. it's the first time for...

Dropped to 23,000 feet. it also suggests, the data shows a sharp drop, as much as 40,000 feet in the course of a minute, but they don't believe that that reading is accurate. so strange, investigators say they don't know -- they don't expect to believe that at all. but the new information suggests when the data stopped flowing, that the plane went up for some time, and then went down to 23,000 feet, which would explain why they said it was flying at a very low altitude. what does all this mean in the grand scheme of things? five guys, i don't know. i know the plane is still missing and noinchd...

Straits is still not definite. and we'll explain why in just a moment. the bottom line is, today malaysian authorities acknowledged they need more help from experts to make sense of all of this radar data. take a listen. >> the way forward, ladies and gentlemen, is to be more express to analyze both the civilian and the military data. in the east or in the west. and this is exactly what we are doing today. >> reporter: all right. well, three ntsb investigators are there. the faa, which has expertise in air traffic control. they have two experts and a regional rep there. they have been on the g...