and lives all on flight 370. jim? you are in the cnn newsroom. i'm jim sciutto in today for don lemon. if there's one reason to be slightly hopeful as this airl e airliner search goes on, it's that there's no evidence as of yet that the plane crashed. small comfort, but better than no comfort for families in every country those 239 passengers and crew called home. a new working theory this evening though presuming the boeing 777 was forced into silence is that it may have been taken in this direction toward western china or the countries of central asia. the plane carried enough fuel, we know, to get there. it is part of the world where some extremist groups have real political and ethic struggles. andrew stevens, if i can start, how jarring, how interesting,

how different is this announcement from the malaysian government that they believe the plane was deliberately taken in this direction? >> reporter: it's a hugely significant direction and a significant development too. what we know at this stage is the malaysian prime minister has finally given some concrete evidence just to say that, yes, the plane did travel in that direction. yes, we lost contact after about seven hours or so. and there is two trajectories involved. one takes the plane down to the south into the deep southern indian ocean towards the southern ocean and one more worringly into the northern region, which does -- the trajectory, the ark that investigators are looking at does take it over countries like kazakhstan. china, western china, so they are significant areas that is

going to be a political effort as well now for the malaysian government. they have to get the governments, all these countries on board. they have to share data. they have to look at the passengers as well. here in malaysia, i can tell you that soon after the announcement from the prime minister that it looks like there was a very, very strong body of evidence to suggest that the plane was deliberately turned away from its flight path by someone on board. the two pilots here, both of the homes of the two pilots, they took away evidence. we don't know what it was in it. i can tell you that the lead pilot, 53-year-old, a veteran pilot. he had a simulator, a hand-built simulator in his house. that's going to be looked at obviously 37. but at this stage, it's all about -- we're hearing there's

searches going on at the houses. nothing more at the moment. >> thank you, ann andrew. the malaysian authority saying that the flight was deliberately taken over. another area of interest. it's the newest direction that investigators are focusing on. the possibility based on new information that the boeing 777 was rendered silence on purpose and flown a northwestern route as far as northwestern china. jim tillman is with me, a 30-year captain. also peterbergen, a national security analyst. if i can put you on the spot, everything you heard about the transponder timeline, the fuel on board, is this scenario that the plane was common deered and taken to another place? is that a plausible one knowing what we know now? >> it's plausible, but like a lot of other things that have been released to us, it's a little bit confusing.

let's put it this way. when they communication from the cockpit to the ground, "all right, good night," whatever took place, i'm told this was after the transponder had been turned off. i don't understand that. because even if it was or not, where was air traffic control? the people who were supposed to be monitoring that flight for wherever it goes, why wasn't there some outcry as soon as they lost visual contact with the transponder would have been giving them? why weren't they asking the airplane to squawk i.d. it's just a phrase used by air traffic controllers routinely to ask an airplane to punch a button on the transponder and that lights up that airplane's block so that it's very obvious to the air traffic controller about where it is and what it's doing. i haven't heard an interview being done with air traffic

control. after all, these are the people who really are supposed to be monitoring everything that airplane does or fails to do. >> i want to get back to that point because there's the question of the handoff of the radar and why weren't warning signs raised earlier. if i can come to you. now that you have this ark of flight, if we can put the map up there again so viewers can see it, that takes you possibly to india and far north into those countries of central asia there, it happens that most of the people on the plane were chinese. you also have a restive region. terror group there is that have carried out attacks recently. a knife attack that killed more than a dozen people. based on what you know, peter, is it possible that this group could've the intention of carrying something like this out and the ability to do so? >> maybe the intention, i'm pretty sure not the ability

based on past performance. certainly this group has attempted to hijack local chinese flights in china on two occasions, jim. they do have a sort of very small presence in places like afghanistan and western pakistan. but they have been really focused on china. for them to suddenly train someone to fly this kind of sophisticated plane would be an order of magnitude different from the knife attack that you just referenced. so it's not impossible, but it's also -- the other thing i think is the separatist group, they tend to be muslim fundamentalist a lot of them, why would they target a malaysian airlines, which is after a muslim country, quite a number of muslims on the plane, it doesn't make sense. i think it's low probability. >> fair question. let me come back to jim. there's a practical question. if the plane were to go that far

north with developed civilian aviation systems as well as a lot of militaries there with a lot of radars, a lot of tensions in this part of the world, you have that question of how it could be possible. you already have one handoff missed from air traffic control and the vietnamese did not raise a red flag. how much of a failure do you think that is that a plane of this size could fly through all the radar zones without being detected? >> first of all, i can't imagine how he could fly that far in that region without being seen by somebody's radar. it it doesn't even make sense. i can't imagine how he could get away with that doing that. that being said, if he was really savvy and really had his homework done, he would know where all those radars were. he would be able to fly at

altitudes that would leaf him underneath the radars when necessary. he could pop up later on and fly a little differently. all of that, you have to consider the fact that whatever fuel he had on board, if he's flying underneath radar, he's using a lot more of that fuel per hour than he would at altitude. so i can't discount the seven hours of fuel or whatever else that was available. lots of problems here. >> that is a fair point. you're maneuvering from altitudes, taking turns, that burns more fuel and reduces the range. peter, that requires a level of sophistication. again, reminding our viewers we're in the realm here of piecing pieces of evidence together for possible scenarios, this is far from hard. you remember before 9/11 americans were amazed, the world was amazed that these hijackers could learn how to fly a jet plane and fly them into buildings. is it conceivable that a terror group with financing and the commitment and the time could learn to fly a plane and

maneuver it in such a way? >> it's conceivable, but also the malaysian prime minister put the notion into play this is a criminal act. a criminal act doesn't mean it's a political hijacking. people commandeer planes for strange dlugs delusions. we have seen people take planes to try to get asylum. i know a lot about the radar of pakistan, which is one of the places this plane would have to cross. because of research i did for the hunt for bin laden. it took the united states, we used helicopters, we flew at night, we flew a map of the earth. pakistan has a pretty robust radar system just as neighboring countries like pakistan. it's inconceivable, by the way, we have good radar systems in afghanistan. one of the busiest airports in the world is kandahar.

the idea you could walts a 777 over this year isn't conceivable. >> it's a smart point because there's so many territorial disputes. the chinese are watching the indians. a lot of resources concentrated there. great points by both of you. thank you very much. i know we'll talk to you again as the search for malaysia flight 370 continues and expands. investigators are now digging for more information on the people on board that flight. richard quest did a story with the co-pilot a week before the jet disappeared. we'll talk to him about that, next. this is karen and jeremiah. they don't know it yet, but they're gonna fall in love, get married, have a couple of kids, [ children laughing ] move to the country, and live a long, happy life together where they almost never fight about money. [ dog barks ] because right after they get married, they'll find some financial folks who will talk to them about preparing early for retirement

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adds to the mystery and the challenges if and when the plane is found. let's bring in andrew johnson, a geographer at the space museum. rob is a specialist and expedition leader. one of the things we're curious about is has there ever been a search this big for something like this? expanding up to north and central asia, this is enormous area to look for something. >> at the moment we're still bringing in all of the pieces together and trying to ascertain exactly where to start the actual search. at the moments we're finding the search box. we're putting all the clues toogt to find where to commence the actual physical search. >> just beginning we know we have a lot of assets there, if i could ask your view as well, do you think looking at this that this is something that's

manageable in light of the resources that are dedicated? some 50 ships, very capable. this is a big quarter practically of the planet they are looking at right now. >> that's correct. the size of the area is almost hard to imagine for a lot of people and sometimes the more we learn, the larger it gets. i think a lot of people should keep in mind that a lot of the graphics that they see about the possible area, they need to understand the large arks that are shown on the maps don't necessarily show the path of the aircraft. we don't really know the path this aircraft could have taken. that's the potential area that shows where it was last -- where we last got data from a satellite. so it's truly tremendously huge area and tools like satellite images from satellites are good tools to use, but it's going to take a long time to get through the images to identify evidence

of where this aircraft may have ended up. >> andrew makes a good point. it's the range that kind of half circle we show, maybe we can put up again is the range of places, not the path that it took. it's everywhere inside that half circle there, which is a big cut of land and sea. when you talk about the sea part of this, this is some very deep sections of the ocean. obviously, makes it much harder. it took years to find the air france flight. how do you manage that? ships with soern, this kind of thing, how does it work? >> this is very deep waeter. anywhere between 4 and 7,000 meters. you search with sound. you tow a sonar unit through the water and you paint the bottom of the sea floor with sound -- >> and look for recognizable shapes. >> we look for hard targets. in this things it would be the

leading edges of wings or the engine or the folded up landing gear. >> so you look for something that small. you picture yourself look iing r a fuse l lodge, but that's probably the first thing to break up. so you're looking for things that stay intact. >> we look for things that give a good return to the signals we're sending out. it's an interesting area that we're focusing on now because the sea floor there is relatively flat and relatively similar right throughout. >> that makes a difference so you're not dealing with underwater mountain skap. >> it's much simpler pr our point of view. it's been interesting watching all the clues come together. now we're starting to focus in on areas where it may be and perhaps that's why we haven't had any clues so far is we have been looking in the wrong area and the clues are in the sea. >> that's a big problem, they have been looking in the wrong area. now they are looking much further to the west. >> now that we're moving to the

west, perhaps we'll find the debris and that will be the beginning of the start really of defining a search area. >> if i could ask andrew since you have equal expertise, on land, some advantages if the plane went down or landed somewhere on land, except if you were trying to hide it assuming this remarkable possibility that the plane was commandeered and hidden somewhere or taken somewhere for further use. i imagine the land has its own challenges. >> absolutely. we have no idea what happened to the aircraft. and we have lots of possible tools that could be used from imagery from these orbiting satellites to try to identify an aircraft intact or not intact. honestly, i'm not surprised that nothing has turned up yet given the size of the area that we have to look through the satellite images. some of which can identify large things. the majority of satellites in orbit can see things the size of

a football field or maybe the size of a city block. there are a few that can identify down to cars or pieces of furniture. but even in those images, the challenges looking through the vast amount of data and it's going to take a long time. i'm not surprised somebody that has used a lot of satellite that nothing has turned up yet because tough worry about cloud cover, identifying what the objects are. so it's going to take quite some time to find some evidence, especially given the ever-expanding scope of the potential area. >> we know a lot of people are contributing now. a lot of countries, the pentagon, for instance, using some civilian satellites to look for this. thank you very much. now the timetable of events in the disappearance of flight 370 has changed. new evidence that something was happening inside the cockpit before that last radio transmission. we're talking about that with

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there's new evidence today that something sinister could have happened on this airplane. was it hijacked and were the pilots involved? we have a new time line suggesting that the last radio

transmission, the words "all right, good night" seemingly calm and happy were said after the tracking system was switched off. cnn also learned that police searched the home of the pilot and the co-pilot, shown here, after the country's prime minister confirmed the plain plaen was likely deliberately diverted. richard quest here again. so many questions to go over. i wonder if we can ask first to explain to our viewers who might not have heard this yet the significance of the se questing now, the idea that everything was fine and dandy, good night came after one of the systems was turned off. >> this is not -- this is straight forwardly from the prime minister's statement. and aisle caveat it before, after and in the middle. people are not speaking with the precision of the final report. >> no question. >> the prime minister says the acars data transmission system is switched off or disabled, as

the phrase he used, as the plane goes out over the east of malaysia wp. >> just as it crosses the land area. >> the last known point of contact is in the china sea, there's either by transponder or the handoff between malaysia and vietnam. >> we also know those words were spoeken at that point. >> we know that because the authorities person said that. would i be surprised if tomorrow we're told that that never happened, i wouldn't be surprised. but on tuesday or wednesday of this week, that's what we were told. and once those words are out there, it was probably a longer senten sentence. it was probably malaysia acknowledging and saying "all right, good night." >> granted, so many things have changed. we remember the excitement over the satellite photos. but potential significance of this separation of things, it indicates that there was some control or decision making s that your view? >> it indicates, it suggests

that at the moment when that last voice transmission was being made there was the incident was already underway. and there is no indication in what was said that we know of that leads one way or the other, but something could have been happening in the aircraft of which they were not aware. or could have been happening. >> a fire or something and the system could have gone down. >> fair points. that's the questions it raises. it's given the malaysian government more certainty in the prime minister's words it was a deliberate act. let's talk about other potential failures here though. that handoff happens, or supposed to happen between malaysian air traffic control, but it doesn't happen. the vietnamese never picked up the plane. you have it traveling southwest, we would believe, and possibly over other radar-controlled areas. you have a lot of people in governments and countries along the way who could have said where is the plane, what is this

plane that's coming over my air space, why did that happen? >> we don't know at what point and if the vietnamese went back to the malaysians and said, we haven't seen flight 370. we should have seen it by now. having read enough reports, what tends to happen with a missing plane is -- and this happened with 447, this happened with 447 and on the route. what tends to happen the next point of call where you're going to check in doesn't hear from you, might think we'll give him five more minutes. >> you don't give him the whole night. >> then you go back to the last one and say, what happened to malaysia flight 370? we haven't heard from it. we handed it off to you. the moment that happens, you start asking other pilots in the region -- >> all thing to our knowledge

didn't happen. >> we have not got anywhere near to that depth of understanding what else was happening during those times. but ultimately, within an hour f you haven't heard from a flight like this, you're pushing the big red button and you're basically saying we haven't heard from this flight. seven hours later, this is heading towards other countries. china, indonesia, back over malaysia and seemingly no one thought to scramble fighters. >> had and this is a very sensitive part of the world with a lot of countries watching each other with powerful surveillance tools because they are concerned about what other aircraft is doing. >> i was looking at a report and they have jets up in the air within an hour. >> this is something we know did not happen with this flight. >> as you note, there are still many questions and we're following this step by step along the way. new information today, not

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plane could have reached. and bob baer, our national security analyst. this jet liner took off from the capital of malaysia. is there a place as you look at that giant half circle leading into asia where you can land this plane without anybody noticing, seeing you? >> i would say absolutely, without a doubt in my mind. let's put some scope and some reality to these lines. because you probably woke up this morning and saying we were searching scare squares and now we're searching arks. how did we get there? this is one of the arks up here. and another one down to the south. where did that come from? it came from a gps ping. it came from a satellite provider that pinged the plane at 8:11 in the morning, the morning that this plane disappeared. if you take 100 miles from this line and this line, that's a

million square miles to search. that's larger than alaska, texas and california put together. now let's get to how we got those arcs. there's a satellite up in space. it heard something that. it just heard the timing of the response between its ping and the handshake back. so what we have here is a ring, a big red ring that you're seeing here. this ring all the way from here, all the way around here. that's where the plane could have been. that's where the ping may have come back from any of these locations. now we have eliminated half of the ring, at least half of the circle because the plane couldn't fly that fast or that far on the fuel that it was given to get to beijing. there's the possibility it was given more fuel. there's so many other theories. but the arc came from the fact e we don't think it could have been 234 here because malaysia would have seen the plane in here. but up here, that's our arc, down here, that's our arc, and

up here on the northern part from vietnam to the top of the world, we're talking 100 peek, but then up to the plateau where there's very, very few people. now we do a little bit something more sinister. let's continue the line farther and not take it where it would have run out of fuel. let's say there was more fuel in the plane that what was first thought. you can get people to put more water or oil or fuel in your plane if you pay them enough money. there's tyrann. here's baghdad. so this could be another area that they will eventually look at. it's how did it get there undetected by so many other radars. and so many other military installations, that's part of the problem with the northern extent up here. to the south, there's not much else down there other than water. >> that's fascinating how you show how big of a slice of the

planet they have to look at. renee, what do we know about the flight path based on the information we have so far? i know nothing is definitive, but what best guesses are investigators able to make at this point? >> well, we know from the latest presser that happened today we got more detail about the final flight path of this plane here. we have our own model 777 here. so this is what we know. the acars system, which essentially tells you all about everything going on, the condition of the plane, how are the engines running, how are things going with the plane, are there any problems being detected. we know that was the first thing to go off. we also know that the last time that this plane was picked up on radar was right -- you're looking at the map there, last point of contact right over the south china sea. then they started analyzing some s satellite data. now we're starting to learn more about that flight path of the missing plane.

we now know, they are confirming for us that the plane did indeed make that turn and head towards the west. u.s. official also telling us, you're looking at the graphic there, that at some point the plane descended to 23,000 feet, and also went up to 45,000 feet, which is way too high for that plane. back to the satellite data, it's crossing the malaysia peninsula and heading west. the last time that this airplane was picked up in the sky, we do know was at 8:11 a.m. that's a lot longer than we originally thought. before we didn't know if the plane went down when it went off the radar in the sea, but based on the satellite information, it's suggesting that the plane made the turn and, again, it was in the air for more than seven hours and that last transmission, or at least that last ping, i should say, happened at 8:11 a.m.

>> before i get to bob, just very quickly, the last ping, any locater on that ping or we know it came at 8:11, but we don't know where it came from? >> as far as the last ping goes, no data wtransmitted, so we hav no idea what was going on with the plane as far as if it was in good condition. we don't have that specific data. what we do know is looking at this map here, based on that last ping, the airplane could have been anywhere along that red line there as far north . that's where they are zeroing in. as you can see, it's quite a large, large scope. >> bob, you've looked at terror plots for years, both during the service and after your service. typically these ideas come from somewhere or they have been

detected that groups are thinking about doing something like this. has there ever been an indication that terrorist groups were looking to commandeer a plane and take it somewhere? >> i have never seen this. i have never seen any planning for this. i have never seen anybody talk about it. i have never seen it on any internet chat. and even pretend to have that sophistication, i have never seen a terror group like that. but clearly, somebody got in this cockpit and took that airplane. that's all the evidence is pointing that way. and which makes me project and this is pure speculation, did they take it to central asia and land it on a remote, unused field? again, this is just -- i can tell you i have been on those fields in central asia, i have been in the old soviet radar sites, they don't work. you could bring this thing into the mountains and could land it somewhere and cover it up. but that is just, again, i have

said this over and over, this is so ntastic. i have never seen a terrorist group with that sort of capability. it's very worrisome if they have it now. >> we always have to allow the possibility for a new idea. but again, it's early. thanks very much, renee, bob, and chad, helping us divine these developments today. coming up, the last known communication aboard flight 370 took place after that tracking system was turned off. what does that mean and how will it change the investigation? we're going to talk to two aviation experts, coming up right after this. gunderman group is a go. yes! not just a start up. an upstart. gotta get going. gotta be good. good? good. growth is the goal. how do we do that? i talked to ups. they'll help us out. new technology. smart advice. we focus on the business and they take care of the logistics. ups? good going. we get good. that's great.

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minutes later, you get the nice seemingly calm handoff, all right, good night. what does that say to you? >> certainly if that's the accurate information and that establishes a time line that you can infer from that, a deliberate takeover of the cockpit, it is significant. i don't think in and of itself, that comment has been karks rised as a deal breaker or game changer, i don't think it really is. i think richard and others have talked about the fact that it's not uncommon at that time of the night or that part of the world to be a little more casual. >> casual, the point is not how he said it or what he said, when he said it or the pilot said it. that after a system had already been disabled either intentionally or by some catastrophic event. it's the view of the malaysian government that was a deliberate act to take over the plane. that's my question. >> i still don't think it's

definitive of a deliberate ta takeover or otherwise. you can make an argument that the tone of that kind of a conversation was indicative of that he was relaxed. so you can make an argument either way. >> interesting. you have an argument here that it could still be a failure in the plane, plausible. >> absolutely right. i was reading the report last night of helios where there was a failure of the pressurization and the captain was asking questions of ground maintenance and was being told the switch is behind you. and the captain was making no sense whatsoever and the report actually says on the ground they wondered what on earth the captain was talking about. >> this was happening without his knowledge, he was losing it because he wasn't aware that the oxygen was coming out.

>> so it's entirely possible that this was happening. >> this is a note of caution we want to keep reminding our viewers. thees are early stages piecing together evidence. you've investigated, you have been a pilot but also represented victims of crashes before where evidence is key and the investigation is key as into the cause. have you ever handled a case with this kind of mystery this far into the game? >> it wouldn't be a case of eight days into the game. you have to wait for the investigation to play out one way or the other whether it's our own investigation or certainly rely on the ntsb or the authorities. the problem right now is you really don't know the accuracy of a lot of the information. it's akin we do these mock jury trials where we decide before we take a case to trial what people think about various facts. it's almost the same kind of

scenario where you feed out facts in a controlled manner and you get a different reaction each time. >> let's talk about potential negligence. there does seem to be some failures. we don't know for sure, but it's possible someone was allowed on the plane that shouldn't have be been. or you didn't properly vet the pilot or notice that there was an issue brewing, some trouble brewing. certainly, as well, issues with how quickly the authorities were alerted that something was wrong, whether it's the vietnamese radar controller who doesn't alert immediately, we don't know for sure, but we haven't been told that he alerted immediately. there's a report that malaysian airlines didn't red flag this flight until two and a half hours until after that communication. is there negligence that you're seeing or signs of negligence here, things that should have been done better? >> this is turning out to be a classic aviation accident, which is usually a chain of events that leads up to the ultimate

catastrophic event. it's rarely something like a bolt of lightning out of the sky. it's a chain of events, whether it's a vetting of a pilot or a passenger or security or air traffic control not doing their job. at any one of those events and the link and the chain of events if somebody had done what was expected of them or supposed to have been done, you arguably wouldn't have the end result. >> i know you have covered these because you can have a snowballing of issues, one small mistake leads to other mistakes and things happen. final thought from you. >> the minister summed it up yesterday. this is no ordinary investigation. the chain of events that you talk about are there, but the final causation and defect of this, which we are now experiencing and seeing, a plane missing for more than a week with a vast area being searched, this makes it no ordinary

investigation. his words. >> and a longer one for sure. thank you dan rose, richard quest, who knows everything about flying. thanks to both of you. the bermuda triangle, amelia earhart, next a few of the world's great i've yaugs mysteries and why the disappearance of flight 370 is not as rare as you might think. ♪ and you are coming into bottom. >> roger that. we believe every education- not just ours- should be built around the career that you want. imagine that. but with less energy, moodiness, and a low sex drive, i had to do something.

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the puzzling disappearance of malaysia flight 370 is not the first time that a plane has

v vanished without a trace. some of the cases remain unsolved decades later. rosa flores joins us with three more cases of mysterious plane disappearances and you say there is precedence for this thing, sadly. >> yes sh, and we can use histo as a teacher in this particular case. so we will go back in history and start in 1994 with a flight from chicago to pittsburgh. now, this is u.s. air flight 427 and the plane hit turbulence and corkscrewed and hit the ground at 300 miles per hour. the aircraft shattered. the 132 people on board died. hear this, four years later a report revealed that it was a rudder valve that was to blame in that particular case. now we dig deeper into history, but now to 1950, a flight from new york city to seattle. this was northwest orient airlines flight 2501 and this plane vanished over lake michigan and when we say vanished, it vanished without a

trace. and 55 passengers and three crew on board, and no wreckage has been found even though the bottom of lake michigan has been combed and nothing has been revealed until now, and sit is huge, huge mystery. and the most famous the bermuda triangle and i know ta you knew that i would go there, and this is of course, the area of of florida, and puerto rico and bermuda, and this is statistics back to 1948 airways jet disappeared with more than 400 people on board, and never found, and the most widely known is flight 19, american bombers running the training missions, and never recovered and the aircraft charged with finding them also vanished with 13 people on board and it is known as the devil's triangle. and jim, what we can learn from the history is that there are cases where the planes have vanished and nothing has been resolved. granted, they were not 777s like in the case, but it has happened in the past.

>> and the flight over land right in pennsylvania and took them four years even with everything in front of them to discover the cause can, and so even when you find the wreckage. >> yes, it will be difficult to find out what happened. >> thank you, rosa flores, and we will meet with you next hour with three more aviation mysteries. and meantime, we will have a detail of the time line of flight 370. ♪

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crimea grounds. and this is coming as the people are deciding whether to leave ukraine and join russia or to stay independent. earlier, russia drafted a referendum, but it was declared invalid, and only china voting to sustain it. and men in matching uniforms burst into the simferopol hotel. nobody was injured. i'm in for don lemon. nothing has come in for the missing malaysian yet, but we have a few focuses on the possibilities based on the best new information that we have right now, and much of the information is coming in as we speak. there is a new time line of