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Do this? particularly looking at the pilots but then you've got to really open that scope of the investigation to look at everybody. >> john, we talk about the knowledge that you're pointing to here about what it takes to fly this plane and what it takes to set up that course correction. we talked about it earlier on "way too early" the fact there are over 600 runways within the search radius right now where that plane could have safely landed with runways over 5,000 feet and a boeing 777 needs 7,000 feet to land but somebody skilled could land it on a lesser runway. is that fueling the specul...

Joining me now, nbc news correspondent kerry sanders, who has been covering this story. and when you're looking at a search radius that is the current search radius, am i fair 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. kidd" put it well when he said just in the indian ocean, which is larger than the continental united states, flying over and looking for something associated with this plane is sort of like f...

Primary focus for investigators who once confronted a search radius that covered 1/10 of the globe. >> the final satellite contact from the plane on the day it disappeared indicated it could have gone as far as this line. the amount of fuel onboard meant it wouldn't have been able to fly much further. this new potential debris lies between those two lines. in just the right spot to be as the investigators say, credible. >> four aircraft from the u.s., australia, and new zealand including an american p8 submarine hunter have scoured the area where the debris was found once but spotted nothing. ...

Three days into the disappearance investigators say they are expanding their search radius since they are no closer to discovering what happened to the men and women on board. flight 370 disappeared one to two hours after cleving kuala lumpur to malaysia. no distress call was went. weather was clear. no sign of wreckage as earlier discoveries of an oil slick and other debris are not from flight 370. no cause for the disappearance is being given at this time. with boeing 777's generally having an excellent safety record. and while officials search for a cause, focus is centered on two passenger...

Spawning this international search. >> this is a lead. it is probably the best lead we have right now, but we need to get there, find them, see them, assess them, to know whether it's really meaningful or not. >> officials express caution over the objects which may be debris that fell off a cargo vessel of something else entirely. the find was significant enough to merit an announcement from the australian prime minister, himself. >> we don't know what that satellite saw until we can get a much better, much closer look at it, but this is the first tangible breakthrough in what up until now has...