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The plane was going to beijing, they have shown little or no ability to operate outside china, and they haven't been particularly sophisticated. certainly not sophisticated enough to bring down an airline, not ruling it out. the universal people and groups that might want to do this, i don't think is large in terms of either intention and cape ability, you need both intention and capability, and i don't really see that right now. one aspect of this that we haven't discussed is also the possibility that the pilot intentionally brought the plane down, we saw that with egypt air in 1999 when the ...

That plane down, they could have turned off the transponder and just taken that plane down. why would they fly an extra hour if their intention was to destroy the aircraft and kill everyone on board. >> i agree. i certainly agree. >> that's an important point to make. brian todd is with us, as well. brian, you have been doing some reporting on the search techniques that are under way right now. what are you learning? >> reporter: well, wolf, you know, we focus a lot today on the technology. as you have been reporting in the breaking news, at some point we now know the plane's transponder stop ...

Never see their loved ones again. i am talking about the disappearance of a malaysia airlines flight somewhere between the place it disappeared in kuala lumpur and beijing, china. there were some 239 people on board and so far, they have been told to wait for information. frustrating moments for them. the plane lost contact with the ground more than 24 hours ago now. and not long after this plane vanished the process of notifying the passengers' next kin turned out a problem with the manifest, because two people now boarded the now missing flight with stolen or missing passport passports. i wa...

Individuals come in through their passport control to their country. currently, interpol has a project to have two airlines, it's a pilot project, to allow airlines to directly make inquiry to that database before they even issue the tickets or boarding passes. but those are the only two. what interpol knows for certain is that the passengers that boarded that malaysian flight, which was also a co-chair with china southern airlines, that database was not checked with before the tickets were issued. the italian passport that was in their data bass was not checked. >> mary, just a reminder to ou...

Captain chesley sullenberger, or sully, as he's known, saved the lives of 155 people by making an unbelievable landing on the hudson river. >> the us airways flight had just taken off from laguardia when a flock of seagulls jammed the plane's engines. we open the news vault to january 15, 2009. >> from abc news headquarters, this is world news with charles gibson. >> good evening. you get a call like we did this afternoon and you immediately fear the worst. "good morning america's" robin roberts called in, there's a plane down in the hudson river, she reported. an airliner. u.s. air flight 154...