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Different pieces of information so we can take a more refined approach to the search and rescue effort. >> there was a report in "reuters" and it talked about the fact that the route seemed to be following what are called navigational waypoints. can you explain what navigational waypoints are? >> sure. the waypoints are basically latitude and longitude points in the airspace, and typically they're given a name, and then when you program those waypoints in the flight management system, you can have the plane fly to the preprogrammed points as part of the route. >> i think i'm still not followin...

Can the plane fly for five hours or so? even if there was a large box of lithium batteries in the cargo hold, it doesn't explain that. chuck barnett, i'll come back to you. we'll get your take on this new information. the breaking news we're covering in our special "situation room" report, much more right after this. ♪ [ chicken caws ] [ male announcer ] when your favorite food starts a fight, fight back fast with tums. heartburn relief that neutralizes acid on contact and goes to work in seconds. ♪ tum, tum tum tum tums!

Fire because the plane, all of the alarms would go off, the fire suppress sors would be goi off and they would be trying to get it to the nearest airport, whether it's a vietnam airport or malaysian airport. they would not be flying halfway around the indian ocean and there was a fire. >> so you're still working under the assumption that there was a person or persons that caused this, not a mechanical failure? >> even there, if the batteries went off, if there was a fire and if the warnings didn't go back to the kuala lumpur officials, then we need to be having debris in the ocean where they f...

Switch themselves off. >> okay. >> and that is entirely possible. >> but then why no communication? why no we are in trouble? we are over whatever. we are losing power. why not that? >> we don't know. >> okay. >> with these questions, eventually you are forced into the position of saying we don't know. the biggest issue is why, for me, is how did this plane fly for an hour and ten and nobody on the ground spotted that a 777 m-370 with a filed flight plan to beijing had done a dogleg turn and was now going in the opposite direction. >> miguel marquez e-mailed me and said with the transponder of...

Target aircraft. they have had various plots, 9/11, the bojinka plot, liquid explosives plot coming out of europe, as well. and al qaeda has even been on the record of saying that the pilot should administer a drug to the co pilot so he can take control of the aircraft. what has investigators so focus and had so concerned is now this period of time that it appears the aircraft was operating with a transponder off. how did it come off? how did the plane fly so many hundreds of miles back the route that it had come on at 90 degrees, cross over malaysia again. how did that happen? the aircraft wa...