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Keeps growing. carol? >> the families continue in their anguish. tom foreman, thanks so much. i want to bring in our aviation correspondent, richard quest. he is in new york. we have captain sean cassidy, the first vice president of the airlines pilot association international. welcome to both of you. >> good morning. richard, i want to start with you. a pink from the plane or a plane that was picked up by satellite. when you plot those, they are prepared to go over the following wave points. they are recognized wave points. think of it as the interstate of the sky. you have these big airways ...

Satellite pings an the idea this plane was being navigated via wave points in the andaman islands. what does that tell us and what does that not tell us? >> i think what we have to focus on is what the data is. the transponder stopped transmitting, not that anybody turned it off. the same with the messaging system, it stopped. we have five wave points, the one on the island to the west of malaysia and the four data points from the satellite. the most logical thing is to say, for whatever reason, there is no more data and the plane was continuing on that path. can it the plane do it by itself o...

Bengal and indian ocean. so now this is india. india sending its navy in here on search and the u.s. navy is also searching in this area. x marks the spot right about there. the challenge is, though, this is a vast body of water and the americans are searching in this area more or less and the indians are coming in from this direction. if this plane did, in fact, hit some wave points and come in this direction like this, then trying to track it, looking for wreckage is like looking for a need until a haystack. this is a very, vast area of ocean. what will they be looking for? we only have the ...

To turn right here and turn left here and change altitudes here. these are wave points in an international airway across the sky. when you plot the route that this plane took using the pings, this is what it shows. it shows it went along those wave points. even the malaysians and the united states and even the u.s. navy says, there is not 100% confidence in this information but pardon the pun, in a sea of confusion, you have to follow every lead you possibly can. that's why this has taken on a significance this friday. >> i want to talk about these pings, supposedly, according to reuters, at 1...