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Other side of the door. >> i talked to a 777 pilot who flies for american. he was saying there is a key code you can use to get in but also a dead bolt, a piece of metal that the pilot can use the exclude the rest of the world from the cockpit. and after this, we doen't know what is going to happen but enough has occurred to make us doubt that we can trust all airline pilots the way we did before. and that maybe we have to take away the dead bolt from the inside of the door. >> it is pretty shocking. i want to emphasize your view you don't think it was these pilots? >> the story is still unfol...

To fly that plane into a building. had there been follow up on those radar tracks, we would now not be searching through several ocean. we would know more or less where the plane was and have some sense of what happened and obviously bring, you know, families into it there. so, you know, the convention, as you know, alex, is that the country in which an incident happens is by law the country that has the lead in the country. if there is no country, if it's international waters, it goes to whatever country's plane it was. now, one thing you can be sure is that our intelligence community, our la...

Every piece of the data that comes in has a clock. the clock is with the airplane, the clock is elsewhere. you have to match up those times. that's why the radar, when you get two or three different radar tracks, why it takes so long to figure it out? you first have to start match the time of the signals, and sometimes that's difficult. jon: right. and we should say that although some unnamed u.s. authorities are quoted in that "wall street journal" article as saying those engines were transmitting, the malaysian authorities say it wasn't happening. again, another conflict in the reporting we'...

Columbian jungle and they had top flight information right away. this is inexcusable out of malaysia. the united states needs to take a more forceful role and step out and take the lead. what would they do differently? >> they would put order in this investigation. what you have to do in the moment after an accident, you have to get your hands around the neck of the information. that means you have to bring it all in, the radar tracks, the atc communication, the various eyewitness reports, which are always unreliable or tend to be unreliable. you have to get your hands around it fast. of cou...

Before the plane vanished the authorities say one of the pilots said, all right, good night. like everything was absolutely normal. and then it disappeared. catherine heritage is in washington for us. are american investigators getting any more involved now? >> they are. the ntsb and faa are providing technical assistance to decode the data on flight mh-370's last known location. >> i think there are some radar tracks. i think the malaysians know they have them. i don't think they know exactly what they are. so i think by having faa and ntsb experts come in, maybe they can get a better idea of...