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>> that it was flying around for up to four hours after its last transponder transmission. so that means the plane was intact for much of that time, for all of that time and perhaps flying around, perhaps landing, investigators believe it's even possible to have landed somewhere. but the point is from the scenario that folks had originally that this plane went down when its transponder stopped transmitting and crashed somewhere near its last location, we now have a widening search looking for a plane that was going to an unclear location and flying around perhaps for up to four hours which is ...

If that is accurate, what would that suggest to you? >> well, if the transponder is off, it can suggest a number of things happening. it could suggest a security problem in the cockpit, it can suggest a catastrophic electrical failure. there has been a history of cockpit fires and smokey conditions in this aircraft. and it could suggest that the pilot actually intentionally shut it off themselves. >> but the four hours, specifically, that it would be flying four hours, and we now know that the u.s. counterterrorism officials are looking into the possibility with this new knowledge that someone...

Just heard from richard quest that they may be going all the way to the indian ocean? because if those reports have some merit, then that plane was flying for hours after the transponder stopped working. >> well, i think the confusion has been created indicates that maybe it was, maybe it wasn't, but now not rule it out. especially since the search has been so intensive at the place where the transponder stopped transmitting. that area's been covered, i think, they believe. then they look at the straits of malacca which separate the malaysia peninsula from indonesia. and then they consider wel...

The "wall street journal," because the "wall street journal" supposedly talked to rolls royce. they make the engines. and they say they get information from the engines, and the engines gave them information four hours afterwards, which seemed consistent with this theory that the malaysians have that it then made a big, dramatic left turn, right? this left turn that it made and then started flying towards the strait of malacca. that is the thicket that we are in. let's try to suss out what makes more sense here with aviation attorney and former inspector general with the department of transpor...

Welcome back to "the lead." the new information that we received today indicating that missing malaysia airline flights 370 traveled for about an hour off course after the transponder stopped transmitting. it took four days for that information to emerge. in a world where every move we make is tracked by someone or other, how is it possible the technology hasn't been able to locate this plane yet? let's bring in noah, a nonresident fellow at the brookings institute for security and intelligence. noah, thanks so much for joining us. after four days we're being told that a military radar picked ...