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>> over 630 different potential landing sites that were established in this search radius because of the size of the 777 it would need 7,000 to land and an experienced pilot could do it less than that, about 5,000 feet but if it was landing be used for takeoff it needs that longer length. >> when you look at the hijacking theory there seems no reason why a hijacker would turn off the transponder and all sorts of abilities to track the plane and then just ditch it where no one can see. >> unless went wrong. >> that's why something else happened. something else happened. >> something else happen...

Within the current search radius with runways long enough to accommodate a boeing 777. fueling the no longer quite as farfetched speculation, could flight 370 have possibly even landed somewhere? joining me now, nbc news correspondent kerry sanders who's been covering this story, and when you're looking at a search radius that is the current search radius, am affair in saying it's to longer really even a search in any recognizable fashion? that is, just a swath of the earth that is just too massive to look for anything in an orderly manner? >> exactly right. i think the commander on the "u.s.s...

House. >> we have dismantled it from the room and assembled it at our office and getting experts to look at it now. >> malaysian officials tamp down rampant speculation this weekend pointing out the two have no known ties to terror groups and had not requested to fly with each other on the mh-370. even with the question of who could have taken the plane and why and how still unanswered, of course, the biggest mystery that remains is where. where is the plane? wnyc identified 634 places within the current search radius with runways long enough to accommodate a boeing 777. fueling the no longer ...

We're hanging in there. >> jim joins us now from kuala lumpur. i remember when that air france flight disappeared from rio to paris. it took five days to actually find the wreckage floating in the water. it took two years to recover the black box. but officials are now expanding the search radius. time is not on their side, the longer it takes, the harder it gets, doesn't it? >> it certainly gets harder, but you know, i think the simple answer is that they don't know what else to do. they have searched the area where they believe that that plane was at the time that it disappeared from radar, ...

Americans, including 51-year-old phillip wood, an ibm executive living in kuala lumpur, described by his family as incredibly generous creative and intelligent. >> pretty calm, pretty strong. we're hanging in there. >> jim, i remember when that air france flight from rio to paris disappeared, it took five days to actually find wreckage floating in the water, it took two years to recover the black box, but officials are now expanding the search radius, time is not on their side, the longer it takes, the harder it gets, doesn't it? >> it certainly gets harder, but you know, i think the simple an...