they want to know if you want to test your skills. go to cnn.com/brackets. that's it for me. i will be back 5:00 p.m. in "the situation room." a two-hour special edition. newsroom with brooke baldwin starts right now. >> thank you so much. you are watching the coverage of the disappearance, but the burning question here is did something sin ter happen in the cockpit of that plane? what we are doing here is piecing together this timeline as one bit of information still remains unclear. was a crucial tracking system, we will hear this a lot, the acars system from the plane's engines to the ground basically every half hour turned off before the koblg pit made the

last transmission, all right, good night. this would suggest a plan was under way to deliberately divert the plane when the words were spoken. this is what i want you to look at. this is what we know. 1:07 a.m., acars makes the last transmission. 1:19 a.m., all right, good night radioed from the pock pit. the last verbal communication. 1:21 a.m. the transponder was switched off or stopped working and at 1:37 and this is the key 30-minute window, the acars system fails to make planned contact here leading some to think the plane may have gone down. but no because you see at the bottom, 2:15 in the morning, military radar detects the plane hundreds of miles off course. at 8:11 a.m., more than seven

hours after take off, a satellite made the last electronic connection known as a hand shake with the plane, but the thing with that hand shake is it's not specific. it doesn't give location. based upon the time that passed, it does tell us it was somewhere, you see this huge red ark. somewhere within this ark. we are throwing a lot of numbers out to you. let's keep them in mind. the families in anguish. specifically for the partner of phillip wood, the american on board. she told cnn she is still holding out hope. >> my bag is packed and ready to go. it has been since saturday morning. >> ready to go where? >> wherever he is. >> my son even helped me pick out clothes for him so i have an outfit in my backpack.

he wouldn't want to wear his dirty old stuff and probably wouldn't wear a hospital gown if that's the case. it's all ready. he is one of the 239 souls on board that plane. somebody needed expertise to disengage the tracking system and fly that plane for hours and hours, investigators have renewed the focus on the crew and specifically the pilot and copilot. they are taking a look at someone new. this is a 29-year-old passenger who happens to be a trained engineer. live from kuala lumpur, me what we know about this young man. >> this is a 29-year-old man and he was a trained aviation engineer. he worked for a private jet

company his family told me. through his work he would travel regularly throughout asia and other countries like australia and canada to fix private jets they said. of course this is a difficult time as you say. 239 people on board 370. authorities have to ask difficult questions. i put that to his father. i said do you believe your son was involved? he said i don't believe my son was involved. if the police want to ask me any questions, they can speak to me. >> translator: no police have come to ask about this at all. none at all. he goes to sydney, canada, usa, singapore. he went to beijing to repair a

plane and was going to bring it back here. >> a very delicate time for the family. the stepmother described him as a loving gentle man. his little sister just eight years old said i want my brother to come back home and said please come back home. it was a really touching moment. you can imagine the angst the families are going through. days since that flight has gone missing. not just the passengers, but the pilots too. this weekend the police went to search the home and both the pilot and copilot, a lot of intrigue has been responding to this. we are hoping to get more news. >> we will get to that in a minute. in kuala lumpur, thank you. as we piece together the

timeline, much centers on the minutes following the last transmission that sends the data about the plane. there lots of questions. daniel rose, pilot and aviation attorney. security consultant and former fbi special agent. gentlemen, welcome. daniel as the pilot here, i will kick it off with you. we ran through this 30-minute tick tock, if you will. the window beginning with the last acars transmission. what jumps out at you? are. >> how accurate is the information? it seems to be changing day to day. if you assume the timeline is accurate for purposes of the discussion, it tends to suggest a more deliberate shutting off of the systems. i still think you cannot rule

out the fact that there was a mechanical failure as an explanation for all of this. some of these ways that these machines can fail, the systems can fail are random. >> this can go 8,000 different ways. you heard the theories out there. we are inquisitive on each. let me stay with you. wu know also how much fuel the jet had. given that amount of fuel, it is possible. we don't know the direction of the plane. we have seen this massive ark. it could have gone to kazakhstan if it took the northern route. when you think of all the countries that would have had to travel over through to get there, could it have gone undefected. >> that's the key question. it seems highly improbable unless we have been under estimating the capabilities. to fly at 29,000 feet and be

undetected by military is inexcusable. even at 5,000 feet. that's the sweet spot for radar. >> as fbi, is it possible that india or pakistan would admit if they city the plane on the kadar? >> you bring up an excellent question. they want to protect their capabilities. >> for all the world to see. >> exactly. i'm also a commercial pilot and i spent time flying through the mountains. i can tell you that it's possible to fly through the mountains in that part of the world and anyone can go in the direction can plot out the known

radar locations and you can determine where are the radar blind spots. the type of thing that americans did i believe it is within their capabilities to pick a route not easily detectible by radar. >> that's interesting what you are saying. if it was terrorism, why wouldn't somebody come forward and say yes, we did this. we pulled this off. >> that's a good question. the answer is probably because it doesn't suit their purpose at this point. they are not trying to intimidate. other people floated the idea that perhaps the aircraft was taken for another purpose. terrorism is a scenario and because we haven't heard from any of the passengers when they land, much of the world is covered by cell phone towers. you would hope they would be able to get a cell phone

message. you have places like in afghanistan where people can shut the cell phone towers off. another scenario that hasn't been talked about, i can give you three examples of where the aircraft became the venue for an assassination. manuel noriega got rid of the predecessor that way. pablo escobar took out a columbian candidate and back in 99, egypt air went down in the atlantic and had 30 officers on including two general officers on that. the u.s. came to the conclusion that it was an intentional act of sabotage, killing those personnel on board including 100 americans. the egyptian investigation said it was mechanical failure. >> you are throwing up the possibility that it could be

someone on board this aircraft that someone wanted dead, is that what you are saying? >> that's a possibility. what could be on the aircraft that someone was interested in is cargo. there was a high value cargo on this. we talked about the word piracy and pirates go after the ships for the cargo. was there high value that the ship was taken to be able to land and take the cargo or even in a db cooper and take the karg oat o o and send it out over the ocean. i love your timeline. it definitely shows that the likelihood is this was a deliberate act on somebody's part. they knew the aircraft well. who knows the character better than anybody else? probably the cockpit crew. >> okay. there is more theories thrown out as we scratch our heads over this. thank you so much. both of you pilots know this

area of the world and we don't know yet. day ten. coming up, they brought up the issue of cell phones. could the cell phone records have been helpful? also when we talk about the cockpit here, what was the pilot doing with a simulator in his own home? what kind of information can be learned from that? also in another part of the world, who controls crimea. president barack obama making an unexpected statement today announcing stiff punishments against russia. will vladimir putin retaliate? a baiusy news day. stay right here.

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are. >> malaise why loysia looking a theory that the plane was deliberately flown off course. you have the security footage from kuala lumpur showing the captain and the first officer, here they are going through security. meanwhile police are investigating the flight simulator seized from the pilot's home. a friend of the man at the controls said it's not fair to imply the pilot did a darn thing wrong before the facts are in. >> i feel particularly affected when they go for the lack of evidence. you are going to theories like questioning his credibility and terrorism links and issues like that. i think it's a little bit insensitive and unfair to the family. >> let me bring in a man who has been on television every hour of every day for the last ten days.

our expert here, richard quest, i want to quinn with the simulator. we talked about this. is this odd at all that a pilot would have a simulator and you said no. he's just a real aviation nerd. have you changed your mind at all? >> not a bit. it's unusual. it's a bit geeky, but those who we heard from including that friend who had been allowed to have a go on the simulator said this man loved flying and he managed to get ahold of a simulator and was using it to refine his skills. i can hear the other camp saying yes, hone his skills so he could take over the plane and fly over the himalayas and land somewhere. we don't know. the fact is he had a simulator at home and he let friends use it. we don't know the purpose.

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

prepared to be corrected, but i don't believe there was wi-fi on board this aircraft. >> e-mailing or tweeting. >> even if there was, disconnecting wi-fi is the easiest. that really is just a flip of a switch. if anybody is going to disconnect acars, they ain't going to waste time worrying about switching off the wi-fi. as for the ground, where this plane was going was over the water. there will be no cell signals and even over ground if you are miles up. you are not going to be able to get a sell signal. >> grab some water. i know you have been on tv all day. coming up, what happened on the final few minutes while it was still in the air. we are working on putting together the pieces of what we know for you here. is there any way the plane could have landed in the water? i'm talking about a controlled landing. knowing something was going wrong and department leave a bit of debris. we will explore that area coming

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specific individuals responsible for undermining the sovereignty and territorial integrity and government of ukraine. we are making it clear that there consequences for their actions. continue to make clear that further provocations will achieve nothing other than russia and diminish its place in the world. they will only deepen russia's isolation. >> the u.s. expanded sanctions, penalizing and naming 11 people in the role in ukraine and the european union announced the list of 21 individuals sanctioned for the same reasons. they both are not recognizing sunday's referendum in crimea, rejecting the vote's validity when close to 22,000 troops are occupying the renal yon. the referendum results, 96.7% chose to join russia with a return out at 83%. many ukrainians boycotted and

the world is waiting for the reaction from russia. live from crimea, at the white house, let me begin with you. the president we heard from today continues to leave options on the table for russia. >> that's right. we just wrapped up a briefing where jay carney was asked several times whether vladimir putin could appear on a sanctions list. jay carney would not rule that out. the white house is holding that out as a possibility as the days move forward here. also whether or not some of the gas giants and oil giants of russia might be targeted next. whether we might see some of the olegarks who have a lot of control and influence in russia, whether they might be next. the white house is indicating that these sanctions could get ratcheted up and i put the question to jay carney, does

vladamir putin care. he is expected to address russia and expect to give an address to the nation tomorrow and so that is going to be what we are all going to be looking towards. whether or not vladimir putin appears as economic sanctions are ratcheted up. about that referendum in crimea, jay carney was asked about that and officials have asked about that. they are not viewing that as legitimate and once the official went as far as to say the balance that came in according to the united states were premarked. the white house is essentially regarding this referendum that took place in crimea as a fraught. >> we heard fraud, illegal and unconstitutional and a number of other world leaders. there is also a ceasefire in place. is russia expecting to annex crimea before that ends? do we know?

>> everything has been tightly choreographed. we saw the well funded orchestrated and passionate celebrations last night. a lot of people here are keen to join russia, but also they are being fed a one-sided story by state loyal media. this morning parliament voting to teab itself as independent and they decided to adopt the time zones. whatever the sanctions label on their feet by russells or washington. the only question being if putin will move ahead, it will be hard for him to leave crimea hanging and not bring them into russia, given how on his behest, we have seen the activity. whatever regularities, you saw a lot of them ourselves. the key is 22,000 troops. opponents of the vote saying this is a fast. the democratic crisis is

happening at the barron of a gun. >> will that matter in the end with days to go before this ceasefire expires. we will be watching at the white house. thanks to both of you. we will get you back to that story and we continue for the search for the missing malaysia air flight expanded dramatically. air, land, and most importantly the ocean. is there any way the plane could have crashed without leaving behind a single bit of debris? an expert said the battery on the beacon locator expires in 30 days. that means the clock is ticking if it is in fact under water. stay here. this is special live coverage. [ male announcer ] if you're taking multiple medications,

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239 people and first the pilot and the copilot through the metal detector. although they cannot independently confirm when it was shot, what we know is that police have searched the homes of these two men and taken this flight simulator from the home of the copilot. we also know investigators are beginning to track down the phone records of the performs to see if any of them tried to make contact and have not had any evidence of any telephone company of any member trying to contact. we are still checking. it is being done as part of the investigation. >> also new information. this keeps coming in and coming in.

india a military. it is not watched as closely as others. that's interesting. this raises the possibility that the plane might not have have been picked up as it flew through the area. if you are having a tough time getting the lay of the land. and what could have happened together. george forman, what happened from washington. we are reading the quote that he was a u.s. naval commander taking part in the plane. he put it like this. this was like finding a missing person and all you know is there is somewhere between new york and california. sound right? >> yeah, that doesn't sound right sadly. this is a huge area we are talking about. even as we get the new clues, we go back to where we were a week and a half ago. we know the plane took off from kuala lumpur and flew for less than an hour and disappeared up

here. a week and a half later, that's about the biggest part of what we know. we know the search area expanded and expanded and we know now based on this analysis a satellite data that maybe is somewhere out in a vast ark that stretches out towards the south or towards the north that way. this is based on mathematics and possibilities that it could have been in one of the areas. take a look at this when we talk about knowing the lay of the land. move up to the northern section and look at the country that is it came close to or perhaps went over if it went in that direction. vietnam and cambodia and laos. myanmar and china past parts of india and pakistan and kurk stan and uzbekistan. all the way up to kazakhstan if it flew directly along a route like that. we are talking about the amount of time flown in that final our

when we don't know where it was when the last ping was lot of. it could have veered off from that path or much earlier. we don't know or yet it could have gone towards the south. bottom line is what we have is this plane, this huge plane, 200 feet from one side to the other. this plane managed to make all this movement to go in all these places allegedly if it went that way and the satellite direction is right with no radar picking it up and no people seeing it and nobody seeing it since. that's why this remains so mysterio mysterious. it would be easy if it's a mechanical failure and it went down in the ocean. it is tragic, but we understand it. what's strange is to say it doesn't seem to have gone down in that spot. all that comes afterwards, an unbelievably vast search area that seems to be getting bigger and bigger the more we look. it's the no the 20 million

miles, but it may as well have been. >> it's in the age of connectivity, it is mind-boggling that ten days in, no one knows. tom forman, you mentioned searching the oceans and this massive search operation to find the flight. it's huge and complicated and this logistical challenge is going on by air and land and sea. let's talk about the searching by water. with rob, he's an ocean search specialist and a professional expedition leader and our own chad meyers joins us here as well. listen. there were ships and planes and the countries and the member keeps getting bigger and bigger. sometimes when you look at the picture, despite the technology, you have people looking on airplane and maps and using binocula binoculars. how many sets of eyes are looking at the oceans right now? >> i can't tell you the exact number, but i can tell the more the better.

the oceans of the world cover 70% of the planet and they are vast. even in a regional confinement, it's a vast body of water. so to cover that, the more eyes that are out there looking, the greater the chances of finding something. >> maybe this is a silly question. obviously they are looking for debris. something. how difficult is that to see. the white caps. you must be circling and circling, right? >> it really depends on what that's made it to the surface. in the case of the air france 447, the entire tail section was painted in company colors and floating on the surface. that was a large target. some of the other things that might be floating on the surface, things like doors that contain the floatation rafts. that sort of thing. they can be small in a vast ocean. >> it's amazing days out.

air france was five days and we are days out and still nothing. >> do you fly back and forth on a grid. i'm thinking about a movie, back and forth every mile. something closer than a mile. what's the distance when you are looking out of a plane or helicopter. how far do you really see over the horizon? >> well, it depends on a number of factors. the state of the sea at the time. how rough it is. also the visibility in the air. anyone that searched for anything, even your car keys, it's as important to know where it is that you searched and you can cross off your list as it is to know, there is nothing worse than having a search pattern that has been incorrectly executed. at the end of the day you can cross off the areas being searched. it's better to be methodical

than it is to be fast. >> what it is is i read about this under water locator beacon on the plane that there is a 30-daytime table where after 30 days the battery dies, correct? >> that is correct. >> we are at day ten. >> that's true. as you would have seen on the air france 447 search, the life of the pingers expired and the batteries died. they went in theent any use to those trying to locate the wreckage. they are a part of the puzzle. if they expire, they expire. we will have to find it by the traditional means of using sonar through the water to grab the acoustic imagery that is needed to locate the aircraft. >> okay. let's hope they find it in those 30 days. thank you. >> that pinger only goes about

2 1/2 miles. if that plane is more than 2 1/2 miles in the ocean, that can't make it to the surface. it's salt water and everything. once they find the box, thank you. >> there is a better chance of finding it on land. >> coming up next, one of the theories, there is a lot out there being investigated. we will take a look at history at past hijackings and how they ended. plus we will break down the mysterious 30 minutes on board this malaysian flight after the plane's last communication signal. how do these satellites work? that's coming up. reasons. i go to angie's list to gauge whether or not the projects will be done in a timely fashion and within budget. angie's list members can tell you which provider is the best in town. you'll find reviews on everything from home repair to healthcare. now that we're expecting, i like the fact i can go onto angie's list and look for pediatricians.

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one of the many theories being fuelled by the prime minister of malaysia. the two men who are piloting the plane are the main focus of the investigation. did they deliberately steer flight 370 off course. it's a question. nick valencia has a look at previous international hijackings and how they unfolded. >> this movement is consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane. >> more than a week after the plane's disappearance, police searched the homes of the pilot and copilot. nothing has been ruled out. why would either man deliberately divert the plane? in the case of flight 702, it was the copilot who turned pirate motivated by a plea for asylum. >> and you have to give us lastly information about asylum

because everything is not in english portion. >> we are trying our best to get to the response. >> the jet made a safe landing in switzerland and the copilot was taken into custody. in 1950 a similar story. three planes from czechoslovakia were simultaneously hijacked by czech royal air force pilots seeking asylum. all landed safely in germany. the hijacker's request were granted. throughout the years, deliberate pilot interference has been rare, but there has been numerous hijackings, even post 9-11 and recently before the winter olympics in sochi when a passenger on board a ukraine flight bound for istanbul, turkey said there was a bomb on board. >> ukraine and the authorities give those to fix this. >> on sunday, u.s. officials said there is an increasing focus on those in the cockpit on

airlines 370. officials told us they're leaning towards the theory that the pilots were responsible. this much is clear. what happened on malaysian airlines 370 was no accident, but over the weekend, the stopped short of saying the mystery was a as a result of something sinister. >> despite the report that is the plane was hijacked, i wish to be clear. we are still investigating all possibilities as to what caused 370 to deviate from the original flight path. you look at the incidents and we have no idea. >> this investigation entered its second crucial week and it has been an agonizing two weeks looking for th plane. a crucial part is looking at the pilot and copilot and seeing their involvement in the

disappearance. >> what about the possibility that maybe a member of the pilot or the crew is seeking asylum elsewhere? >> we know that when a pilot or copilot diverted a plane, they were seeking asylum. there was an egyptian airline ruled that the co350i8 on the or pilot crashed off the coast of long island because there was a suicide mission. they pushed back and said it was mechanical failure and everyone has a theory about what happened to the plane. nothing has been ruled out. i think that's the operative statement from everyone that is investigating the case. >> thank you so much. >> you bet. >> coming up next, what happened in the final 15 minutes of flight 370. we are focusing, speaking of what we know on this satellite. the flight is tracked for seven hours and new information gleaned from technology. you heard about the earthquake that shook no, sir prompting the

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renee, what point on the clock, let's put it that way, are they honing in on? >> the block of time that we are talking about here is 1:07 to 1:37 a.m. malaysian authorities appear to be back tracking on information they gave about the timeline of events and the new timeline they are giving today in the words of one 777 pilot makes what happened look less deliberate and more mechanical. here's the new timeline. saturday march 8th, 1:07, the acars system sent the last information about the health of the plane much the last radio transmission with the copilot saying already, good night. perfectly normal as they were going and doing the handoff for malaysian airspace towards vietnam. two minutes later, the plane's transponder stopped transmitting the altitude, speed, and

positioning. nine minutes later, the radar loses the plane all together. here's what's new. i want to you follow me step by step. the acars system was programmed to transmit information in 30-minute intervals. the next scheduled data burst would be at 1:37. that didn't happen. they admit from 1:07 to 1:37, they have no idea when that acars equipment stopped working. it could have stopped at any point during that 30-minute block of time. that's a much different story than what we heard this weekend when authorities in malaysia stated that the two systems, acars and the transponder went off separately and said because they went off separately, it looked like it was deliberate. they are getting this new timeline and people say this puts back on the table the possibility that maybe this was mechanical and not the pilot. brooke?

>> puts that back on the table. you have the satellite and tracking the plane in the air for more than seven hours and causing the search crews to be refocused. that technology is not used for tracking planes. how dependable is this? >> that technology, the satellite is out of space and pings with the plane. the airplane responds to those ping. it's almost as if the satellite is saying are you there? the plane responds yes, i'm here. authorities are saying they are confident that this is the plane they tracked in the air for more than seven hours after take off because the signal the satellite is picking up has a unique code that only that plane would have. it's almost impossible to compete. it is it. >> we are all learn learning about aviation together. thank you so much. coming up, we will take you inside the cockpit and talk to a trainer about the pilot

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a crucial tracking system turned off before the copilot made the final transmission saying all right, good night. this would suggest a plan was already under way to deliberately divert the plane. the words were radioed in. one bit of potential evidence, is a flight simulator found at the home of the pilot examining it and looking for data and looking at the previous flight paths. martin savage joins me because he is in a cockpit simulator. let me begin with this. flight 370 dropped in altitude from 45 thousand thousand feet to 2300 and have you tried to do that on the simulator and is it even possible? >> we have tried to emulate that. we are just about at 45,000 feet

which is also difficult to climb to. we can't do it with the automatic pilot so mitchell is doing that manually. he gets into the altitude and it's a delicate balance. it was never meant to fly this high. you are always in a constant threat of going way too fast or way too slow. too fast is determiningous because things start to go wrng no a hurry and too slow means you fallout of the sky. tell us what they feel like. >> they are very, very sensitive. this is a dramatic drop. it's like the roller coaster here. we are going to attempt to try to recreate what was described with the 45, 44,000 foot drop in minute. >> i hear the bells going off.

there a lot of them going off right now. we are approaching about 37 and 38,000 feet per minute down. while up on the maximum speed, our airplane would be coming apart at this point. >> that's the biggest problem. number one, i don't think you can make the plane fall that fast, at least not as far as that report said. the other thing is things would start to rip off like cover being over the landing gear and vital flight services. >> stuff you would need where the wing might start to come off at that speed. absolutely. >> it couldn't have happened by the next report. they say the plane levelled off and tried to pull a plane out from something like this, you wouldn't be able to fly the airplane after. it wouldn't be air worthy. the plane would have crashed after that. >> that doesn't take into account what would have happened

to the persons. the g forces alone could have been lethal. >> that's one of the questions. could a pilot have practiced that maneuver and saying no, not at all. that was something. let me ask you this. the reason we are talking to you, the pilot had a simulator and police are grabbing that and looking through the simulator. how much is this costing. i can't imagine it's cheap. >> this is about a quarter of a million dollars or more. all tricked out the way it is, the simulator goes up. you can go nuts with this. >> this is all the mechanisms that you find inside of a 777 attached to a sophisticated computer. the one inside the pilot's apartment there, a different matter, but very sophisticated. very much.

there is all kinds of additions and you can buy these controls to get the tactile feel of the controls. that can run you into the thousands. this simulator must have cost upwards of 5,000 or $6,000. >> it is a computer and that's the vital part. it can have a lot of evidence or information. >> it's storing all the information. that leaves a footprint. >> we know investigators are looking into footprints to rule this guy out and say he is absolutely innocent or perhaps not. we just don't know that yet. thank you both very much in that simulator here back to the timeline that we are focusing on. piecing these moments together, much of the focus centers on the minutes, the last transmission from the system that sends data about the plane. let's open this up to a 777 pilot.

the cia officer and security editor for the blaze.com. gentlemen, welcome. feeling many questions. let me jump in on this. you had flown one of the jets and do you think it's possible or the aircraft as we have the possibility that this thing got to the map. kazakhstan and that region of the world, could it have gone that far and landed or landed undetected? >> well, yes, it could have got that far and could have gone undetected, but i doubt it very much. the radar picture even as a primary target as we call it without the transplanter, assuming that was the issue, you would be able to track the airplane. >> i heard you last talking and describing piloting the plane is like a laptop. it is sophisticated and the notion of the pilot having the knowledge that if you can flip

off acars and cease that information from going to the ground or turning off the transponder. is that sophisticated or something as a pilot you would know? >> the acars is not something that we generally utilize as far as changing the configuration. any time we do anything, we know we are not getting a transmission from it. it can receive signals from standard communication people or from the satellite. you can possibly try to fix that, but as far as disabling it, that's not a function you would consider performing. it is possible. it can be done. >> you know this part of the world, that's the question to les. when we talk about the possibility of this flight trying to get as far as the fuel could have taken it towards the yemen and kyrgyzstan region.

potentially would have to fly over major nations which obviously have detecting capabilities of the plane and do you think they want to admit the sophistication they have? >> government is not telling us everything they know. it's definitely happening in the case of the malaysians who at this point the best option for them is they are running an active campaign because the alternative is they are so incompetent that people would be scared to fly out for sometime. as for the radar picture, some of the countries being float as possibilities for the airspace, this plane might have entered are beyond the pale. they would have gotten picked up. this was a big bus in the sky and a lot harder to get under the radar. really while the search extended to the vast area stretching all the way up into the stands and down into the southwest of the

indian ocean. clearly there should be much more of a search over open water. they are not getting past people's radars. >> how much of this, you have been watching the coverage and there is so much we don't know. you have to focus on the facts. when you focus on the facts, do you feel like this is more mechanical or commandeering a plane? >> in previous discussions, i believe and this is a contention like everybody else. this was a mechanical issue. something occurred to shut down systems in the important part of the airplane which is the electronics and engineering compartment. this is eight feet behind the cockpit and below the galley. if it was a fire and this is a scenario that i keep bringing up, who knows if that's a possibility. it would start shutting down a lot of systems. as you brought up, i have said

that this is a laptop computer and it depends upon internal signals to make it fly including software. >> there is not a single piece of debris and no tail or no cushion. nothing. how do you explain that? they have been searching for ten days. >> have they been searching over land? >> the absence of a distress 12348 is something they have to look at. this is supposed to be one of the safe est air frames in the sky. to have that level of failure without being able to get a peep out that they were in trouble seems to be a bit too far. we are not analyzing incomplete data. we are analyzing incorrect data. that make this is so much harder. they keep changing their tune. over the picture it was a human error and it could be mechanical although i think somebody on the plane had a lot to do with what

happened. who and why they did it. >> the timeline continues to change. the whole thing is fluid and you have the 239 passengers and loved ones. we don't know where they are. buck sexton and les, thank you so much. got to break away and get to the breaking news. we are getting news and an update. it's an update of the involvement in the search for the missing plane. let's go straight to the pentagon to barbara star. what are you learning about this? >> good afternoon, brooke. what we know is several u.s. military officials are saying that navy ship the uss kit that has been searching for so many days will be leaving the search area in the coming days. the kit is going to return to routine deployment in the region and the aircraft is going to move down to perth, australia. on the face of it, it is a reduction in the u.s. effort, but there is a strategy behind all of this.

the kidd has been searching to the north and the strait of melaca. the water has been pretty thoroughly searched. australia taking over the southern sector where the radar track goes. that is hundreds of thousands of miles of open ocean. what officials are telling us is the long range surveillance aircraft will be much more efficient. much faster in searching that vast amount of ocean space in the southern indian ocean than the navy ship could be. it's going to be on the way home. the aircraft will move down to perth, australia and we are under the agreement that they will start seeing the australia janes take over for the malaysians a good deal of the searching in that southern indian ocean. brooke? >> barbara star, thank you so much on the u.s. involvement on the search. a lot more coming up on the disappearance of the malaysian flight 370. let's look at cell phones on

board the plane. there were apps to find your lot of phone. why can't phones be used to find the flight's current location? were people not on board with the cell phone and not able to tweet or e-mail and to be on facebook? we will explore that angle. a lot of you were wondering that. we will hear from the emotional girlfriend from the american who was on board this missing plane. she is so hopeful. she believes he is alive somewhere. she has his bag packed and ready to roll. as soon as he is found. >> i have an outfit for him in my backpack. he wouldn't want to wear his dirty old stuff anymore, i'm sure. the day we rescued riley was a truly amazing day.

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the disappearance of flight 370 sparked talk about

technology and daily lives and asking all kinds of things like why can't a cell phone provider used to find my phone ap find this? the chief correspondent and editor at large, lance, we will get to that in a moment. let me get to this. when you were on board a plane, explain to me why with these 239 souls on board, not a single person it seems hopped online and used a cell phone. was there no wi-fi capability? >> one of the things we are not certain of is whether or not there was. in the business class, they had a rudimentary messaging system where you can use e-mails and text messages, i don't think you can browse the web. 239 passengers and 123 were chinese and probably using webo, a popular social networking there. it's sort of a wall between us

and the information. we can't really search to know. here's the technical reality. if you were flying at 35,000 feet and going about 600 miles an hour, you are not going to be able to attach to a cell phone tower. the cell phone towers have a limited range. might go maybe three miles. that's half the distance in height that you might need and most are pointing at the ground. the other thing is where they were flying and not densely populated areas. there is not a lot of towers and even to ping. you are supposeded to turn your airplane to airplane mode. >> let's assume that everyone did. >> here's the thing. i have to agree that i am shocked that not a single piece of communication that at the moment it plane turned anybody didn't flip on their phones and try. they may not have been able to get a signal.

nothing got out of the airplane from the technology. >> for boggles my mind when we are in an age of such connectivity, i hop on facebook and i know what my friends are eating for breakfast. i don't care, but still it's like everyone is spewing this information and how we don't have a blip of that from this plane, i don't get it. go ahead. >> you are absolutely right. we live in a 24-hour connective world. that's the expectation. you know it's dicy. do they have wi-fi? if they don't, you are disconnected from the world for up to five or six hours. over the flights that go over the water from continent to continent, no wi-fi. very unusual. no cell towers in the ocean. >> i suppose we are spoiled here. chief correspondent, thank you so much for joining me. we are getting news in to us.

a popular fashion designer was found dead in a new york apartment today. loren scott was mick jagger's girlfriend. we will have more on this story. alexandra? >> they are investigating this as an apparent suicide. 49 years old and found in her new york city apartment. hanging by a scarf that had been tied to a doorknob. scott texted her assistant around 8:30 asking the assistant to come by and the assistant arrived near 10:00. the long time girlfriend of mick jagger and sources say there were no signs of force entry and there was not a suicide note either. we are hearing from mick jagger's camp and released a statement. a spokesperson said mission jagger said he is completely shocked and devastated by the news. really the entire fashion world

left reeling by this loss with scott, just 49 years old. she had a noted career in the spotlight. she grew up in utah and was a model in her younger years, going to paris. later a stylist in hollywood and designing costumes for various films. she started her own label. scott back in 2008. a big shock and sadness for the loss of a truly great talent. >> 49 years young. our thoughts with her family, of course. thank you so much. we will have much more on the special coverage of this missing plane. seems like we are getting new information into where the missing flight could be and what happened. we have the timeline that takes a closer look at the facts from day until now. the facts. that's where we want to focus. the big story is the obama administration announces sanctions against russia hours after crimea voted to seceed

from ukraine and my next guest said president obama has four days to stop russian president putin. we will discuss that deadline and what happens if it's missed.

. >> according to crimea, they became an independent state today. the u.s. and europe were doing what they can. that putting pressure on russia and vladimir putin acknowledged the sof represent of the republic of crimea. russia proceeds to take this

course, so does the united states. today we heard from the president. president obama announcing expanded sanctions against russia specifically targeting 11 people for their part in the crisis in ukraine. >> as an initial step, i'm authorizing sanctions on russian officials. entities operating in the arms sector in russia and individuals who provide material support to senior officials of the russian government. and if russia continues to interfere in ukraine, we stand ready to impose further sanctions. >> the union announced it is list of 21 individuals. the west is also not recognizing sunday's referendum in crimea. 96.7% chose to join russia with the turn out of 87%. but we are hearing from one white house official the ballots the senior correspondent wrote

this piece this morning. obama has days to stop putin in crimea that details how a ceasefire ends this friday. josh, as i bring you on and the news today that the president and the white house officially naming names in the sanctions, stopping short of naming putin himself. you have news you are about to share with me with a list from putin. >> right. according to my sources and this is first on cnn, president putin is about to unveil his list tomorrow. the russians are working on this feverishly behind the scenes. that will include u.s. officials. u.s. senators and u.s. congress men. one person who will be on the list is dick durbin, the majority leader and in the senate. senator durbin not only in addition being a senate leader criticizing russia's invasion. he has been tough on the russians. this is seen as a direct retaliation for president obama, naming the head of the upper

chamber. we are looking at a list that mirrors the american list. other senators who might be on the list and i haven't confirmed yet. john mccain, bob menendez and officials include secretary of state who has a personal beef with president putin and who knows, there could be others as well. >> this is what you are getting, breaking the news here on cnn. as we hear about this volleying back from russia. let's talk about the sanctions that you wrote about. i believe the word you used was inconvenient. they are not severe enough to really timy putin. >> so they wouldn't have more sanctions coming depending on what happens. the sanctions unveiled are not

going to hurt putin or his friends. the next five days to convince them to change course. nobody thinks that. when the ceasefire expires on friday, there would be an open conflict between the russian and ukrainian forces in crimea. consolidating the power there and increasing the troop presence and nothing that the administration did today addresses that directly. they seem to be working at different time paths and that means although we are increasing the pressure on russia, they don't seem to be blinking yet. >> four day away from the ceasefire you are reporting on, we shall see if anything can be done from the russians from crimea. according to them. in the daily beast, thanks for breaking the news for us. appreciate it. up next, a closer look at the 250i78 line from flight 370. we heard a lot of theories, but what are the specific facts we know about the plane. how can they use that

information to try to track it down on where it could be and what might have happened. also ahead, you, the viewer have a lot of questions about this. you tweeted many of your questions and we will ask an expert to answer them live.

. breaking news here on cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. the u.s. is now reducing its role in the search for missing flight 370. the indian ocean in the coming days. that's the news we are getting from our sources at the pent gon. they tell us the australians are taking over the majority of the search from there. here is what i want to do now. i top the do a reset if you are joining us. take us back to the start and

try to fill in gaps as we go. before that let's turn to my colleague who is standing by in washington. suzanne? >> new details revealed this morning from the chair men of malaysian airlines who are providing a timeline in the first hour of the flight. this alters how we know and what we know about the missing plane's mysterious journey. saturday at 12:41, malaysia flight 370 takes off headed to beijing, china. the boeing 777 is carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew on board. 26 minutes into the flight, at 1:07 a.m., one of the plane's critical communications sends the final transmission. the on board security is called the aircraft communications addressing and reporting system or acars. it measures thousands of data points about the plane and pilot's performance and sends the information via satellite.

it is due to transmit again it is due to transmit again and never does. 1:19 a.m., someone believed to be the copilot provides the last verbal communication with air traffic controllers. his last words, all right. good night. it's a common goodbye to controllers after being handed off. at 1:21 a.m., the transponder that identifies the plane to civilian radar goes off. critical information like the plane's flight number, height, speed, and heading are all cutoff. this happens at the same time the plane is supposed to check in with air traffic control in vietnam. 1:30 a.m., all civilian radars lose contact with the plane. it appears to go through erratic changes as high as 45,000 feet above the approved altitude. 2:15 a.m., malaysian military

radar last detects the plane off the west coast hundreds of miles off course. 6:30 a.m. flight 370 is due to land in beijing. 8:11 a.m., more than seven hours after take off. a commercial satellite orbiting more than 22,000 miles above earth makes the last connection with the plane known as a hand shake. using the angle of the satellite, investigators are able to draw two big arks where they believe the plane could travel. one of the paths spans from indonesia to the indian ocean. the second is across central asia to northern thailand. this brings us to the massive search under way by land and sea involving 26 countries. still major questions that

remain unanswered. a timeline changing hour by hour. we will keep you posted on the latest. still holding out hope. one of those on board, an american and cnn spoke with his girlfriend and they were getting ready to move to malaysia and she has a bag packed and ready to go wherever, whenever she gets the call that he is found. we will have the emotional interview. that's coming up next. also ahead, you have a lot of questions. you have been tweeting me and my colleagues and you want things answered. maybe the search for this missing flight. we are all learning about this together. coming up, we will have the questions to an expert. we asked, how much money do you think you'll need when you retire? then we gave each person a ribbon to show how many years that amount might last. i was trying to, like, pull it a little further. [ woman ] got me to 70 years old. i'm going to have to rethink this thing.

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. four of the families are waiting for news and especially for the partner of the american, phillip wood. the pair were moving to kuala lumpuring to and plan on getting married later this year. sarah is the first to admit she may be in denial about his fate, but is on a disoperate search to find the man she considers her soleimate. >> my bag is pack and ready to go and has been since saturday morning. >> ready to go where? >> wherever he is.

>> mire son helped me pick out which clothes to take for him so i have an outfit in my backpack because he wouldn't top the wear his dirty stuff anymore and wouldn't want to wear a hospital gown if that's the case. it's all ready. >> her facebook page with it twitter account have been started to share information about the flight. wood was one of three americans on the plane. there all kinds of questions out there that we just cannot answer at this stage. i know that some we can. a lot of you have questions. you tweet me and my colleagues, don lemon, i'm sure you were on the receiving end of questions and tweets. you have chosen several of them to ask our expert richard quest. don lemon, what do people want to know? >> i evaporate seen your twitter

feed, but i'm sure it's going every second. richard quest has been answering questions of mine as well. people want to know about the families, but they want to know operationally what happened and also where the plane is. i want to pose this question to richard. this is the first one i picked from bob ray, 7425. he said to don elements an, it's 370 questions. if the satellites tracked to plane for 6-7 hours, why don't they know where it went down. something doesn't make sense. i'll say. >> because the satellite was not tracking the plane. what was happening is every hour the satellite was looking for planes and it came across one and sends a signal saying hello, who are you? the plane didn't reply. if it did, it send a basic message back. this is where we are.

it wasn't a solid tracking. think of it more as a ping. i know this is going to be a simplistic explanation, but the best way to think of it is blue tooth. they were looking for what is discoverable. >> that's a great example. >> that's discoverable. it doesn't come back with a full name and a full response to it. what they -- and the satellite was never intended to do that. what they had to do was reconstruct and make various assumptions result of there, there, there, there. it did it times and that's how it did it. >> that makes perfect sense. >> the blue tooth analogy is great. i never thought about that. >> can i get one more in here? how long before debris would wash ashore if the plane went down in ocean. again, if you wanted to answer these questions on the air, we will be doing it at 10:00 tonight. how long before debris would wash ashore before a plane went

down in the ocean? >> that's a question of currents and tides and oceanographers are looking at that at the moment. we know from previous plane crashes that everything -- there things that float and not the least of life vests and rafts. >> none of which has been found. >> none so far, but eventually what does happen is on twa off long island, there certainly bits of the plane and debris nine miles out. that floated in. eventually something would float into a shore somewhere. what they need to do is look at the oceans, the currents, the temperatures and they can know roughly where it should have been and start to work that out. >> we had been asking, brooke, and sir you have been asking what are the chances that it's in the ocean and there is no debris field. people are saying that's pretty

unlikely. >> there is the withhold notion and the whole miracle on the hudson. you think of sulley sullen burger and that was a controlled land. >> the water was so placid. >> a superb piece of airmanship and calm waters. very different than the south indian ocean. i will make up something@richard quest. i get good questions, i will answer them at 10:00 tonight. >> richard will be on the show. make sure you hash tag them. >> 370 qs. the time of the show, don lemon? >> 10:00 p.m. eastern. it's a show where we will be answering all of your questions. this is the viewer's chance to chime in. >> thank you. we will see you at 10:00 tonight eastern. investigators are taking a look at all kinds of angles. one of them is the background of

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background of sdplchlt aha ahari ahmad shah and fariq ab hamid. cnn cannot independently confirm when this video was shot but we have video for you. from washington now, brian todd with more on the background checks. what kind of background checks are investigators conducting on these pilots and what exactly are they looking for? >> anything in their background that may have caused problems. the pilots had to go through psychological tests to get their jobs but the airline is going to look at that and see if they can tighten up their requirements. i have to say, we don't know if the pilot or first officer had any psychological or personal issues that may have played a role in the disappearance of that flight. the pilots are the focus of the

investigation but so far there is no indication that their psychological background played a role in this. the faa requires psychological testing as part of a checkup. the airlines put them through a rigorous battery of psychological tests. one pilot says that his airline asked him questions like, do you like your mother, do you hate your father, psychological questions like that. there are strict rules saying that if you have bipolar disorder, you cannot fly. but often a pilot, brooke, has to report that him or herself and if the pilot keeps it completely hidden, it could stay hidden. >> okay. so those are the questions. those are the rigors someone would have to go through. but what about when you have the job? i would have to imagine that they have testing in case something changes or a personal issue pops up. >> they go through them once a year but they may not reveal anything in that test. there really is not any kind of

a check to see if something has come up in your personal life that may be upsetting to you, a family illness, financial problems, things like that. it only gets flagged, brooke, if you exhibit a behavior, like missing a flight or something like that. your fellow crew member may not notice the way you're acting and it could get flagged that way. it's not part of the process to check normally if somebody has something in his or her life that may have come up in an issue. >> this is totally fascinating. i feel like it's an angle that hasn't really been developed. brian todd, we'll look for you with mr. blitzer here at 5:00 on cnn. >> thanks, brooke. >> be right back. imagine if everything you learned led to the one job you always wanted.

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and talked about the brackets with an expert. steve smith of nba tv. >> welcome to the best time of the year. you know it's march madness when you have a massive racket in the middle of our atrium. i love it because i'm a tarheel and typically we do well. i'm an atlanta girl and also michigan state. >> you have north carolina in your hand and north carolina beat us. >> okay. we'll see how that goes. who, other than -- let's take our biases out of it for a hot minute. who are you loving? >> i'm loving virginia. tony bennett. >> the cavaliers, huh? >> yes. they won the series, the

tournament. they go 7 or 8 deep. any guy can start. great spacing, great coaching, and they play at their pace. you can't speed them up. >> you played -- i remember the game against tech in the early '90s. >> way to bring up the loss for me. >> but you were on fire. sorry about that. but what's it like being one of these college players on the court in the middle of the madness? >> it's unbelievable. you said it best when you started off. it's an event. you get a chance to play for the name on the front of the jersey and obviously the teams, colleges, communities, everybody gets involved and in this day even before it starts, people go crazy. >> people do go crazy. we talked about a lot of other things, about possible cinderella stories, doug city and the florida gulf coast university last year, picking brackets heart versus head. we'll see how it goes. make sure you tune in here as we

talk march madness for the next couple of weeks. and if you think you have what it takes, bring it. here's your chance. take the challenge. logon to krccnn.com/brackets. again, cnn.com/brackets. good luck. that's it for me. i'm here with jake tapper starts right now. breaking news now. the u.s. military is scaling back its role in the several for flight 370. is the u.s. throwing in the towel on this baffling mystery? i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." increasingly it seems like the only feasible explanation someone intentionally steering flight 370 off course to parts unknown. and now an intensified look at the 30 minutes when communications failed or, worse, shut down as the search area expands into two hemispheres, minus one u.s.