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Reported, logically speaking, that they no longer had the ability to be tracked by radar? doesn't that seem like something that logically could have happened? >> well, we don't know exactly the timing on that, whether he would have been aware yet that they weren't being tracked on radar, because i think that happens, the transponder gets turned off after his last communication. they're trying to do some analysis that malaysian said on that voice transmission, to see if they detect any stress in the voice. certainly, the wording sounds, right now, good night, it's very routine. it's very hard t...

Some financial stress going on certainly, the flight recorder, the flight simulator that captain shah had needs to be examined very, very carefully and forensically, to see whether it shows anything that might shed some light on his either state of mind or his plans. >> all right. >> joy, can i jump in for just a second? >> please do. >> why, if you intended to commit suicide or murder this plane full of people for unknown reasons, why wouldn't you take the plane in right away? why fly it around for seven or eight hours? there are just a lot of questions in this case. >> yeah, the fact that th...

Disappeared. it starts a little after 1:00 a.m. local time, when the plane's onboard computer and diagnostics system sends an update, then stops working, though we don't know why. at 1:19 a.m., the copilot is the last person to talk with ground patrol. he says, all right, good night. no hint that anything is wrong. just two minutes later, the plane's transponder stops communicating with ground-based radar, but the plane seems fine. because at 2:15 a.m., the flight shows up on malaysian military radar screens as it veers off-course, back across the country and out to sea. from there, it's a mys...

Kazakhstan to the southern indian ocean. but nations to the north, including kazakhstan and vietnam, says they have no evidence that the plane entered their air space, so the search is now being focused primarily on the southern corridor. but this is still an incredibly daunting task. an investigator involved in the search effort told reporters, quote, this is not just a needle in a haystack. it's a haystack that gets bigger and shifts under us due to the ocean's drift. so gentleman, i want to start with you, peter, and talk about this issue of time running out. explain to us why we have so li...

Find them. secondly, whatever wreckage might have been available has now faced the tides, the winds, and the currents. we're going to have to work hard if we found a wreckage field to trace it back to where the aircraft was located. >> give us your best sort of guess as to what happened here. >> well, i can tell you, it is still a mystery, but i think it's correct that we are focusing inside the cockpit. there simply is no other explanation, if the facts that we have been able to verify so far are true. somebody had control of the plane, made the turn, and caused it to not be seen on radar. an...