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Internet, i cannot confirm or discount. i can only base on what i've informed you in my pieces. >> reporter: investigation officials insist privately this new map is not theirs, that it doesn't match malaysian radar readings. despite refusing to comment publicly, malaysian officials did say all the radar data is central to their investigation. >> the manner of the air traffic control at the time of the aircraft make an air turn back is one of the very important criteria for investigators to look at. >> reporter: in a background meeting given to cnn, malaysian investigators say they believe mh-...

Were found within a couple of weeks. we are going into the fourth week. >> if there was that much debris wouldn't it have been seen somewhere by someone? if you landed the plane in tact could it have sunk? >> if it sunk to the bottom you are not going to see it from a satellite. >> to the route that these families had shown malaysian authorities, if that is correct, then if you translate we are probably looking in the wrong place because fuel burn is longer, speeds are off. it's one thing to analyze the radar data and another thing to analyze. at the end of the day they are still guesstimating...

Quite honestly, i'm hopeful, but i'm pessimistic we may not even be in the right spot. >> based on -- the satellite information coming in suggesting that originally it was further in the southern part of the indian ocean. they moved it up six or seven hundred miles closer towards perth, australia. but you're not even sure that's the right spot? >> well, i like it better than the first one. my belief is this radar data from thailand is accurate. the airplane went down and went back up. used some gas. couldn't go as far. so i like the new spot a lot better. but there's so many assumptions that g...

Ditching. but it's pretty hard to ditch in the water at night. so i can't -- i'm not exactly sure at that time after that much flying if they were in daylight conditions or darkness. that would be a key thing. >> no question. miles, let me bring another question from a viewer. this one asks, if military radar was picking up a plane without a transponder, why didn't it raise any flags to deploy help? so that that famous malaysian radar data that saw a plane going across there but not identifying itself? >> or why weren't fighters scrambled. there's a lot of questions there. i think the various ...

Have identified a debris field. they have to be close. >> tom, i want to go to you now. with flight 800, that was a smaller area. here you have a huge area, the only precedent would be air france 447, the difference there was wreckage was found. is there precedent for going into a search like this with so little information? >> well, i think air france does a good example. for flight 800, they had two air national guard pilots and they new where flight 800 was immediately. what i find interesting is the importance of radar data. both of those are critical as we