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Many flights. is it possible that somebody could have commandeered this plane and got as far as somewhere like pakistan as some people are suggesting? >> absolutely. there was enough fuel on the airplane to do that. whether without -- you would think that if that airplane had been over a land mass, someone's radar would have been able to pick that up. and it certainly at this point, political pressures alone, i would think, would have determined that the pakistani government or another government would have determined that the radar tapes should be shown to everybody on board. >> if you know w...

The crew trying to regain control of the plane in some fashion for some reason. it may have been something totally nefarious. it is leading them conclusion they have to consider there was serious human intervention in all of this. what we also know, the radar returns, dramatic changes in altitude, to underscore what my colleague was saying a moment ago, the malaysian radars may not have that much accuracy. the plane was flying a good distance. that reduces the accuracy. we do know the plane made a turn west into the indian ocean. and now with the malaysians, the u.s. has calculated two areas t...

Data. the flblips coming off the plan. so definitive, no. but good reason to believe it was malaysia airlines flying there. so they have the blips out four to five hours over the ocean. they technically analyze, use computers to figure out the calculation, where was the satellite in relationship to the earth, where were the radar returns, where do the pings come from. >> how do they get it didn't end up on land? >> reporter: well, it may well have, anderson. nothing is definitive. what we are reporting is as time has gone on and they make the calculation, the path takes them in these two ways....

Radar is not clear it's not clear what's happened at this point. >> barbara, when we spoke last night you broke the news that you believed american officials were pretty convinced now that this plane had gone down into the indian ocean somewhere. putting together the new revelations we've heard about the trajectory of the plane, about the fact it may have been taken over by one or more people who deliberately tampered with the systems, what can you now tell me with all that also bringing in your information about the plane probably having crashed? >> reporter: piers, let me go through a couple...

Wasn't human intervention it. >> barbara, i want to ask you a question which david gallow put to us a few moments ago and it's an excellent question about it, and we talked to andy pasztor about it. but officials you were talking to believe the plane ended up in the ocean. how can they believe that if we were led to believe this plane went for some five hours, how are they saying it ended up in the water? are they saying that definitively? what leads them to that conclusion? >> let me start with, nothing is definitive in this story over the last week, as we know, other than this plane is missi...