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Keeps growing. carol? >> the families continue in their anguish. tom foreman, thanks so much. i want to bring in our aviation correspondent, richard quest. he is in new york. we have captain sean cassidy, the first vice president of the airlines pilot association international. welcome to both of you. >> good morning. richard, i want to start with you. a pink from the plane or a plane that was picked up by satellite. when you plot those, they are prepared to go over the following wave points. they are recognized wave points. think of it as the interstate of the sky. you have these big airways ...

Search area, i would hope there is a taeam underwater scouring the floor of the gulf of thailand having a look and seeing if there is anything there. my sense is we need a big white board with some sharpees and only the facts that are true and real and on the right side, all the things that need to be tracked down. not a lot of evidence to go by. >> i'm going to throw something else into the mix that's confusing. chinese researchers recorded this sea floor event in the waters around malaysia and vietnam about an hour and a half after the missing plane's last known contact. do you put much stoc...

On the bottom of the plane that the spinning of the air would generate electricity. that's called a rat, by the way. five to six different ways just to back up the electricity, hydraulic system, how many different backups for that? >> eight different systems. air driven or numanic systems and electric, it just goes on and on. it's inconceivable that all those systems would fail at once and just complete failure like that. it's electrically dead airplane. that's unheard of. >> no way to really stress to you, carol, how much safety factor has been built and engineered into this aircraft which is...

Fly. this plane, apparently flew, the word you'll hear, way points. the junctions on the interstates of the sky. go from one point to the next point to the next point to the next point and planes fly these in an orderly fashion. you're told by air traffic control as part of your flight plan to go from point a to point b to point c to point d. now, look, carol, this plane could have been flying, whatever plane it is, it could have been flying them on auto pilot or could have been flying them manually. but what the reuters' report suggests is that if you look at the pings, there is an order to t...

As you know now the plane vanished seven days ago. pentagon correspondent barbara starr joins me with that side of the story. good morning. >> good morning, carol. the ship has hit the northern end, essentially the entrance to the indian ocean and use its helicopters to conduct aerial searches for any evidence of debris field, any evidence of the plane. but earlier today, actually, a u.s. navy surveillance aircraft conducted its first air sweep of the region flying about 1,000 miles out into the indian ocean. didn't find anything and came back. but they're going to keep at it. so, it's worth t...