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Group. >> pretty incredible that they knew who he was and this still could have ham. what do you think about when monis left iran in why he was in australia to begin with? >> reporter: certainly authorities were familiar with him. what we're learning is report from iranian media which said he fled the country back in 1995 when he was being pursued for committing fraud. he then twoenl australia where he was given political asylum. what we don't know is why he targeted this chocolate shop or what motivated this attack. >> all right. thank you very much. joining me now, our counter terrorism anal...

At 1:21, the transponder goes off. all hell breaks loose. at 1:30 it loses control. but what we're missing here is at 1:37 the acars' expected transmission didn't happen. so what this malaysian airlines executive is saying, it doesn't mean someone shut it off, it just didn't go off on the half hour as it was scheduled to do. this casts doubt into whether that plane took a left turn and went into the indian ocean and got pinged by that saltellite which is why we're looking at half of the planet. bringing in jim tilmon, he has a theory that the plane is somewhere being refueled, might be used as...

Which is very suspicious. then a couple of minutes later at 1:21, the transponder goes off. all hell breaks loose. at 1:30 it loses control. but what we're missing here is at 1:37 the acars' expected transmission didn't happen. so what this malaysian airlines executive is saying, it doesn't mean someone shut it off, it just didn't go off on the half hour as it was scheduled to do. this casts doubt into whether that plane took a left turn and went into the indian ocean and got pinged by that satellite which is why we're looking at half of the planet. bringing in jim tilmon, he has a theory that...

About who was on that flight, and we were very comfortable at a relatively early stage that there was nobody on that flight that could have been defined as suspicious enough to carry out such an act. >> okay. patrick skinner, if you were in the cia now investigating, this would you be pretty critical of the way the malaysian government and the malaysian airlines have been behaving or would you accept they've never been through anything like this and they are novices when dealing with this kind of a thing? >> i think on a public level, there's probably some frustration. but i imagine on an inte...

There was one detail that drew my attention, and that is -- it was mentioned that shortly before the event started rolling, somebody in the cockpit said good night. for me that might have been an indication that somebody was going to leave the cockpit, possibly one of the pilots and that involves opening the door of the cockpit, which allows the opportunity for somebody to rush in, and that's exactly the point where all the events started to go wrong, turning off the transponders and doing all the kind of things that, according to the experts, can be done almost only by human intervention. >> ...