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This is something i promise the families. >> reporter: we flew to the malacca straits to the west of asia. this wasn't the scheduled flight path, but it's a possibility the search team is taking seriously. in case the plane turned back and lost its way. there are 16 ships surveying this area. that's more than 12,000 nautical square miles. joined in the air by 14 aircraft. and that's just the area to the west of malaysia. there are more than 30 aircraft and more than 40 ships in the entire operation. as we look out across this vast expansive water, far into the horizon, holding his head in his ...

People, when you look at this new information from this malaysian official and you look at the route of that plane, what do you think happened? do you think it was catastrophic electrical failure? do you think it was possibly a hijacking or terrorism? what do you make of it? >> i think it doesn't answer either question. you don't have the catastrophic mechanical failure that blew it out of the sky like twa-800 had. but because it still stayed in the air another hour and a half after whatever happened. but if those transponders and all communications in that plane were shut off deliberately, th...