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On top of it, maybe a few days. if not and they have to search up and down the possible paths, 17 miles at this point, that's a long time. they will be looking at weeks to months. >> air prance, the pinger was not working. here you have data. i wonder if could you explain the urgency here. you are a pilot. one of the key driving forces here you need to know what brought that plane down because if it is mechanical you want to correct that so it doesn't happen again. >> over 990 777s flying. i'm sure boeing wants to know. was it a mechanical error on the aircraft that brought had down? was it no...

Same for the first officer. he had flown for years on the 737 fleet. was now transitioning to the 777 fleet. there was not a shred of anything to suggest other than circumstantial timelines and facts that they did anything wrong. >> really this is two fold. using the cell phones while in the air and after one might have crashed. first in the air, 777 is sophisticated. was there no wi-fi on board? i fly and i hop on wi-fi all the time and i'm texting. >> wi-fi on board aircraft is just coming in. yes, even the major z fleets are only just putting wi-fi across the fleet. i don't believe that i'm

The fleet. extremely experienced operator of this type of aircraft. >> is this owned by the government of malaysia? >> yes. well, it's an odd hybrid form of ownership. the government -- the part of the float of the shares is in the private sector, part of it is with the government. the government clearly owns the majority. so yes, it is a government -- it is a national carrier of malaysia. a carrier that's undergoing all sorts of transformation and reform and restructuring at the moment. the chief executive having to make it profitable once again. at its last set of results just earlier this y...

Gone missing. richard quest, what are you hearing about anything that may explain why this plane has gone missin missing? >> there's no way anybody can have any idea what has happened. we're talking just two or three hours into the event. the plane was two hours into its flight from kl to beijing. traditionally that is the safest part of the flight. the two most riskiest parts are takeoff obviously and landing. this plane would have been at altitude. it would have been on auto pilot at the time, obviously, and it would have been making sort of good progression. malaysian airlines has 15 triple...

30-year-old james oliver instead went into his room and shot himself. he was not open rolled at classes at the time. the school had been trying to evict him. also in kansas city, reportedly a man is back to visit his sick partner. roger goley was arrested earlier this week when he refused to leave his partner's room. the two have been in a civil union for five years and make medical decisions for each other. he claims the hospital staff refused to recognize their relationship and forced him to leave. the hospital tells a different story as officials say goley and his partner's brother were c...