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Debris is still in the area. >> that's true. we talk about the issue of drift. they have to do math in both directions here. even though it may show here by now it could be here as they send the aircraft out to look for it. then you have to go to the other direction if it was here a few days ago it must have started out here. they have a lot of work to do to figure out what the current have been and the speed they have been travelling for days. when you look at the debris you have to look at the wind direction. there are a lot of different factors that come into play as you try to pinpoint thi...

Anything for them. he was hired by malaysia airlines directly out of school. and trained by malaysia airlines. he was one of the original triple 7 fleet captains. you know. great guy. just a great pilot. you know, i think that it attests to his experience of 18,000 hours of flying, great career. >> joining me now, robert mark, a commercial pilot and fox news aviation analyst, also kathleen banks, a fox news aviation specialist, and tom blank who was a former department tsa executive. tom let me start with you as an investigator. when you hear the friend offer what appeared to be a heartfelt de...

They're going to interest v.to try to find other parts of the wreckage if these are pieces of the plane, it may take weeks, months ashg long time before they have all of the information and all of the answers as far as what happened here. people have been watching for two weeks, wondering what would have happened how a jetliner could have just vanished seems like something impossible. but now, the flight path narrowed down just days ago, to these, one of the areas off of australia they're searching now for couple pieces of debris. now we're going to go to robert mark a foeshler commercial pilo...

It caught fire. look at the cockpit the reason that fire spread so quickly is because it was an oxygen-rich environment. everybody got off board that plane okay. but the damage and jet were destroyed. megan? >> eerie to think about that happening flight 370. patrick smith, robert mark, ask corky smith. patrick let me start with you. the main argument against mechanical failure on board this flight seems to be how could a mean fly 5 or 6 hours on auto pilot, across malaysia into the indian sea? >> well, it could. and you know, i admit that the likelihood of catastrophic failure, any failure is ...

You make of this latest information? what does it tell you? >> i think we've known for a while, at least a lot of folks i've been talking to, that this has been an intentional maneuvering of the aircraft. one of the pilots clearly had the intention, as soon as that plane took off, he was going to take it in another direction, why, i have no idea, it was very clear, not only -- i mean, the fact that the transponder was turned off, the fact that the acars stopped functioning. this type of thing does not happen, and now with this new point you bring up tonight i think it's 100% clear, this pilot ...