question of what is a bong. do you remember that? >> i don't remember that. >> you beat him on that. he missed it. how did he do that? i think it says more about him. >> okay, brianna, thanks very much. >> we wish jeopardy and alec trebek the best. we'll be back 11:00 p.m. eastern. "piers morgan live" is next. . this is "piers morgan live" tonight breaking news we're standing by. the government is standing by. the families are standing by waiting for what could be an answer to the mystery of flight 370. any moment now ship could pick up this object and others like it floating in the ocean. it is not a day's old image captured by satellite. it this was spotted from the air by search planes. and very soon we could find out exactly what it is. is this a sign that finally the search is in the right place? we're following every clue for three weeks. we still have far more questions than answers. the only thing indisputable is the human toll of the mystery has has become a worldwide

obsession. i'm talk to the son of one of the passengers. we'll talk to two friends of the pilot. they say the man they knew would never deliberately crash a plane. our bill story is of course flight 370. we are covering every angle with cnn reporters all over the globe. sara sidner in kuala lumpur, david mckenzie in beijing and richard quest with me. dramatic developments that happened during our show last night where the search moved suddenly at least 700 miles north. we've got this photograph from new zealand air force from a plane, not a satellite. what is the significance of this picture potentially? >> reporter: well, it's a very promising lead. but at this point we don't know if it's actually debris from the plane. it is a floating object in the water. you could kind of see it's rectangular in shape. and the plane that spotted it was actually a p 3 orion from new zealand. the lieutenant that saw it gave

some brief comments as soon as he landed here. take a listen. >> yes, it sounds like we're getting into an area of interest. obviously we don't know if these are associated with the aircraft yet but it certainly looks like we are seeing a lot more debris and just general flotsam in the water. we could be on to something here. >> reporter: now, it has to be said there are at least five different objects sighted yesterday. one turned out to be a fishing buoy. we won't know what it is until a ship gets out there and physically takes a look at this object. there is one chinese ship in the search area right now. another five are expected to get there later this evening, piers. >> thank you very much indeed. sara sidner is in kuala lumpur. sara, a continued focus on the pilots of flight 370. what can we learn now about this aspect of the investigation? >> reporter: it's interesting. investigators have to do their

jobs, of course. they have to look into the pilot. they have to look into the passengers. they have to look into the mechanical records of the plane. so they're busy doing just that. looking through, for example, the simulator. seeing if that tells them anything. the fbi has been involved in looking at it. but it's interesting to note that behind the scenes every now and then a source will come forward and say the pilot, look at the pilot. there may be something sinister there. but in front of the cameras, and on the record, what we're hearing is a lot of praise for this man. people are calling him a gentleman, calling him someone who was excited about aviation. let me let you listen to one of the people who helped build his simulator, the simulator which he apparently seemed to really really enjoy. he loved it as if it was a game. >> i couldn't believe that the man that had passion for aviation like that that wanted to build, took the extra mile to build something like that, would

do something stupid or like sinister. >> reporter: this is what we've been hearing time and again from people who have come forward who will stand up and talk on his behalf. we do know that all this talk about some sort of sinister action on his part is killing the family. a quote from the sister, and of course his wife, his son, all of them having a very difficult time with this, piers. >> it's incredibly difficult. and also important i think to reiterate that at the moment there is nothing that innat incriminates either of the pilots in any plan to do something sinister whatsoever. >> reporter: that's absolutely true. there's been a lot of talk about exactly how they have been looked at from the perspective of the airline and whether or not they were fit, for example, to fly. we heard from malaysian airlines yesterday. they basically said look, they have a test every year, a yearly physical if you will. in that physical they're also

asked psychological questions. so yes, indeed they are given what of a psychological test by the doctors who are doing their yearly physical. so you can only go so far with these things, but at least they're able to talk to someone if they want to. we have not been hearing from other people who work for malaysian airlines. lately it's been quite difficult actually for us to get information from malaysian airlines. we've contacted them several times. they were very, very fast in the beginning. now their responses are starting to slow down quite a bit. there's a lot of media, as you might imagine, piers. you just talked about it yourself. the world is watching this. and everybody just wants to note answer to one thing. and time and again the authorities here have said, we know the one thing that the families want answers to, we don't have. we cannot so far find this plane. they are hoping that this debris that you just heard atika talk about that is off the waters of perth has something to do with

this plane. because frankly, these families are exhausted. i mean, exhausted emotionally and physically. and they just want some proof as to where their loved ones went. >> sara sidner, thank you for your continued excellent work. david mckenzie in beijing, more protests today by families of these passengers and crew on board this missing plane. understandably. three weeks now and they still just have no closure. what can you tell me about what is going on there with these families? >> reporter: well piers, three weeks. and three weeks to the hour in fact. and we had this confirmation that the plane had vanished many since that time, the family members have been in this terrible situation of leads, leads going away, wanting to know information, and then getting that information. now it appears they've had enough. in a briefing with malaysian authorities, one man stood up and said, we've got your information. you're not giving us even the

simplest of answers back. and so everyone walked out. literally a very embarrassing situation of the malaysian authorities giving a briefing to nobody. now they say some family members want to go to kuala lumpur to rachet it up and give pressure on the authorities. certainly not everyone is united in these hundreds of family members, but there is a portion of them that are very angry and very agitated and want answers, answers that we've all been saying they cannot be given right now, piers. >> david mckenzie, thank you very much, again excellent work from you all through this. i want to bring in cnn's richard quest. richard, here we are. i remember three weeks ago, i recorded the show that day. i went home. i got a late call. came back to the office. we within the live for the hour. we had no idea what was happening. but the idea that three weeks later we would still not have any real idea what has happened to this plane would have been completely ridiculous then. >> i would have said that you were mad if you had said,

richard, in three weeks time they will not only will they not have found the plane, but they will now be looking 2,000 miles in the absolute opposite direction from the way the plane was going. i would stark-raving mad. this has been unprecedented. it is unique. the depth and lack of material and data and anything to go on is extraordinary. and that's why i think we have to be a lot more understanding, not the families, obviously. they are grief-stricken. but those of us who can take one step back, piers, i think we have to be a lot more understanding of what the investigation is doing and how it's at the edge of technology. >> obviously last night we were live on air. suddenly this dramatic development, a new report saying they had new data analysis had come back. as a result, moving the whole search nearly 700 miles northeast. people are saying this is ridiculous. why were they in the wrong place. but it's a very complex,

difficult investigation, isn't it? >> right. sir, what do you do when the facts change? i chained my mind. and that's exactly what they've done here. the facts have changed. they can no longer support what they believe. but this is another thing you have to give a certain amount of credit tochlt they haven't suddenly said we were wrong going in the southern corridor. they still maintain they're right in the southern corridor. they've just got the wrong part of it. i say just. they didn't waste time searching down there this week. they knew no better, there was nothing else to go on. >> now we've had time to think about some other aspects of the developments overnight. particul particularly the speed of the plane. what are you reading into that how that may change the construct of what happened here? >> there's a strong argument or an argument that would say because of what we now know does it move back towards mechanical aware from nefarious. i don't think you can say that one way or the other. i think both options are on the

table and you're best to take a middle line on it. the change or the higher speed was at the early part of the flight over the south china sea and the straight of malacca. we still do not know the turn, we don't know if it wiggled around indonesia, we don't know anything really about that. and all we now know is that it didn't fly as far because of what happened at the beginning. >> let me ask you something, richard. as a result of this, can we assume at the very least going forward that no plane will ever be able to just disappear again like this? in other words, are the airlines all getting together and saying this is clearly ridiculous what has happened here. desperate for these families. it's made the airline and malaysia look incompetent and so on and so on. is it all going to change? >> yes. i can answer that. i will be at the annual meeting of airlines in june which is in dojar this year. i've spoken to airline ceos who privately say yeah, but the problem is, what do we put on the plane?

what's the cost of streaming the data? what does iko require us? all these sort of issues. but there's no doubt in my mind, in five years' time you and i need to talk again, and i'm telling you they will have changed the rules. there has to be constant vigilance. they have to know where plane is at all times. >> finally, the significance of these pictures today, we're not waiting four days for satellite images thousands of miles up. we're actually looking at images taken biplanes over a scene. >> that's the significance. and the chinese ship is there tonight. it is already starting to look. one point to note. interesting diplomatic issue going on here. the australians have already sent a diplomatic note according to reports to all the countries involved. just reminding them that any debris or objects picked up have to be returned to western australia where the decision will be made what to do. >> because it's in their jurisdiction. so therefore they will have that responsibility legally, right? >> malaysia has given primacy in the area to western australia.

so if anybody thinks the chinese or anybody else thinks they're going to do a bit of their own investigation, to declare what it was, the australians have reminded them they are treaty bound to take it to western australia. >> richard quest, great to see you. >> good to see you, sir. >> when we come back, the anguish of the families. i'll ask a man whose mother was on the plane if he thinks he's any closer tonight to getting the answers he need as we wait for word on those objects spotted in the search zone. cut! [bell rings] this...is jane. her long day on set starts with shoulder pain... ...and a choice take 6 tylenol in a day which is 2 aleve for... ...all day relief. hmm. [bell ring] "roll sound!" "action!"

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breaking news. daylight off australia's west coast. at any moment they could pick up object that is may tell us what happened to flight 370. it's been an agonizing three weeks for the family of the 239 people on board the plane. steve wang's mother was one of the passengers. i spoke to him in the week and he's back with me now. thank you so much for joining me again. my continued condolences to you and all the families for this just torment you've been going through. let me ask you straight away, what is your view three weeks on now about the way that you and the other families have been treated by the malaysian authoritie authorities? >> well r, for the three weeks they haven't given us any useful information. all the information we got we got it earlier from the tv. so we don't know why someone always wants to tell us the

latest story, the latest news but they haven't done anything. for the crash, something we care about they always give us the answer that oh, i cannot explain it. i will check it later or something like, i can't comment or something like that. they've shown no sincerity to all the family members. >> obviously last night, steve, the whole investigation, the whole search moved dramatically about 700 miles further north. what did you feel when you heard that news? did you feel like they were wasting their time or do you think that such a complicated investigation that this is bound to happen? >> well, i used to say that it is just a theory. i have already said that it is based on the speed but the speed can change. but however, i think the malaysian government thinks thought was correct. i don't know what they can explain now. >> i mean for you and the families to be told for the last three weeks that they think the

search area is in a certain place and then to see it move so dramatically, do you feel hopeful they may have got it right this time? or are you now at the stage where you just don't know what to believe? >> well, i think they're maybe just 1% of the possibility that they will be alive. but i do believe that there is still hope. >> and do you believe, steve, that the search area now from what you've been seeing on television and what you may have been hearing, do you think they may finally be in the right plac place? >> i don't know. i think maybe yes, maybe not. but if nothing's found i think it might change again. >> and steve, tell me this. on a human level, how are you coping with this? this is your mother. to the world this is an extraordinary mystery story. but for you, it's very real and

very painful. your mother is on that plane somewhere. what have you been going through? describe it to me. >> well, it is hard to say. sad and angry and anxious. i can't describe it. it's so complicated. >> i can't even imagine what it's like for any of you families. and the fact that you've had so much wrong information must make it 100 times worse. steve, it's great that you've come back on the show. it's important that people hear from the families. i'm very grateful to you. i wish you all the very best. i, like you, will cling to any tiny bit of hope as long as there is hope. i will say a prayer for you again tonight. >> okay. thanks. next what do we really know about the pilot of flight 370? i'll talk to two men who knew

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still a lot of unanswered questions about what happened in the cockpit. joining me a friend of captain zaharie ahmed shah and on the phone another friend of the pilot. let me start with you, if i may. again i will extend to you my deepest condolences to you about what has happened to your friend. we don't know for sure that he has perished in this. but what we do know is that he has been the focus of huge attention. how do you feel about that as his friend? a lot of aspersions cast about his being involved in the plane taken off nefariously. what do you feel? >> i thank you for your words of comfort. definitely all this remains speculation. as far as my feelings, i'm actually very disappointed that we seem to be losing focus on the search itself but rather trying to find the fault, pinning of the fault onto the

pilot. and i repeat it's purely speculative. we have to show compassion to the family. going through this difficult time and with all these kinds of speculation it makes it even more difficult for the families. not just the pilot, as well as everybody else on board. i think it's a very, very unfair and the timing is just not right. >> and tell me about your friend zaharie. what kind of man is he? >> captain zaharie is a very dedicated pilot, responsible and a professional pilot with 30 years experience, 18,000 flying hours. there cannot be a better pilot. and as i always have mentioned, if i get to choose a pilot on the plane that i am onboard i would choose captain zaharie as my pilots. no doubts about that. >> can you think of anything that you have ever heard him say or have heard about him which would lead you to think he could ever possibly have been involved

in a deliberate plot to take this plane away or to hijack it or to crash it? >> as i mentioned, piers, this is purely speculative. and i do not want to contribute anything to this speculation. i think that there's more than enough speculations and i would not want to contribute any more to it. >> i understand that and respect that. let me turn to mr. oathman. you've been a friend of zaharie ahmed shah for about four decades since your school days in malaysia's penang state. what is your reaction to this frenzied focus on his possible involvement in some criminal activity here? >> hello. >> did you hear me, mr. oathman? >> yeah, i hear you. but it's quite distant. hello. >> i will ask you again. what is your reaction to all the speculation about your friend

captain zaharie? >> oh, okay. i feel great respect fvery sad . he's defenseless. not around to defend himself. it's not fair to him. that's what i think. >> you've known him for four decades. what kind of man is he? >> right. he's a very caring person. he's a joyful person, really cheerful. he's the kind that makes things happy. he's a very nice man. >> he's the father of three children. would you describe him as a strong family man? >> yes, yes. he even has a grandson. >> people have tried to make a lot of gossip and inyinnuendo about the fact he had a flight simulator in his house. did you know about that? and do you think it's remotely suspicious? >> no. i don't see anything wrong with that. what's wrong with having a

simulator at your house? >> do you think from all that you know about him, mr. oathman, do you think it is conceivable that your friend could ever have been involved in some kind of criminal action here? >> i think it'she's not the kin person to do that sort of thing. >> peter, are you still with me? >> yes, i hear you. >> obviously until we are able to analyze wreckage, find the wreckage, analyze it and so on, this speculation will continue. what do you feel generally as a friend of captain zaharie about the way the whole investigation has been conducted? >> all right. the investigations, we are getting very little information coming out. so in a way i feel for the family, that they are not being fed enough information.

as to the investigation itself. for the search and rescue and now i mean search and whatever else, if they find, information is coming out but most of them are still -- the search process is still being going on. so i would really ask that we all exercise patience and for our friends all over the world, let's continue praying. we still keep that little bit of hope going, that candle of hope is still lighting. and let's continue the prayers. and reduce the speculations. let's respect and sympathize with the families of all on board. >> i completely agreed with you, peter chong and nasir othman. we should all say prayers for the pilots and their families. they're going through the same hell as everybody else here. it's not fair to suspect them of any wrongdoing. joining me david soucie, former faa safety inspectrd and author

of "why planes crash." les abend, cnn aviation spgsist and miles o'brien, let me go to you, david soucie, we've talked every day seems like forever about this. are we any nearer do you think solving this mystery tonight? >> what i'm gleaning from this event of going to the new location, the team is finally starting to accept that they don't know everything. you don't know what you don't know until you know you didn't know it. it's a circular objective to try to figure out how to find out what it is that's real and what's not. so when i see now that they've made a conclusive change in the search location to this new search location and given up on the other it means they're getting confident about how their team's working together and the information they have. >> miles o'brien, it seemed to be a very dramatic moment last night when we were on air just debating the previous search say the. suddenly everything moved and they seem to have gone lock

stock and barrel up now 700 miles north. is it rather than being hopeless that they've been in the wrong place, is it now very hopeful that everything has been geared now to this new area? >> i think we sort of have to think that way, don't we, at this point? because the alternative is not very good. and the families themselves have got to know that at least they're headed in the right direction. listening to friends and families of the people in the back of the plane as well as in the front of the plane, your heart just goes out for them to be thinking that all this time has been spent looking in the wrong place. so let's hope this is it. it's nice that there's a piece of debris found by an aircraft. that means at least we'll be able to check it out. we sure have learned a lesson about how much trash there is in that part of the ocean, haven't we? >> absolutely. colleen kelly, you were involved directly in the hunt for air france 447, specifically probability mapping, analyzing all the data that's available to

generate the most likely location of the wreckage. what do you make of this sudden dramatic change in where they are searching? >> well, this is quite familiar territory. we see this kind of thing often in searches. new things come up and they move to the newest lead. i really would have liked to have seen us pick up at least one of the pieces of wreckage or whatever was floating in the water before we moved to another location. i haven't seen the real data. i just have to assume that they've done a confident analysis on this and decided that this is the best location. i don't know why they didn't do it sooner. but hopefully we'll find something at this point. >> i mean, people, colleen, will be incredulous that here we are three weeks later and suddenly the entire search operation moves the length of great britain. >> i haven't seen the data. it seems like it should have been a simple analysis. but somebody should have looked at what was the last known point and the velocity at that point and recalculated how far the

aircraft could have flown. but that's definitely something they should be considering. so if this is where it puts us, then let's get in the water and pick up some debris. >> les abend, you're a pilot. you've flown 777s. you're an expert in all this. what do you think and what's going on the last 24 hours? >> i'm encouraged by the fact that they've refined their calculations. i think david will agree a lot of this is all based on assumptions and i think they've refineded their assumptions. i think personally this radar data may be very correct that the airplane actually got down to 12,000 feet. >> let's talk about this. from a pilot's perspective, what is the significance of the 12,000 feet, and what does it tell you about what may have happened before this? >> what it tells me is that the captain decided he had a problem and that he needed to get to the airport, to the closest alternate airport. he may have picked the peninsula

one airport there. he knew he had to get down. he had a lot of altitude to lose. >> would it lend to you more credence to the theory of some catastrophic event out of the pilot's hands, or could it still be that a pilot or copilot orson on board putting them up to it at gunpoint or whatever has made them do this deliberately? >> to me that's a catastrophic event. nothing adds up with reference to the character references of the captain, the copilot we haven't heard a whole lot about. but all that other stuff doesn't add up. and there's just far too much knowledge that somebody from the back of the airplane or the pilots themselves could have accomplished all the things that we saw. i think that we're dealing with a situation that we're going to have difficulty understanding. but it's mechanical. >> let's take a short break. keep my stellar panel together. we'll be back afterwards to discuss most of the developments on this in the last few hours. [ ambient street noise ]

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our breaking news, ships in the search zone are waiting for word on the objects that could finally give us some answers to the mystery of flight 370. back with me now my team of experts, david soucie, les abend, miles o'brien and colleen keller. in the break you two were having a fascinating discussion about a potential theory you think may

have happened. >> les and i have been talk a lot about dropping down to 12,000 feet. taking some assumptions into that it did go down to 12,000 feet. if they were using a flight change button it was preset to that for emergencies. it could have been press and gone down. if there was a mechanical failure on board the aircraft. so i'm thinking along the lines of here, and miles keep me honest on this because i know there are some holes in here and we'll probably get there. but the only thing that makes sense to me, most probable and confidence i have in the data, this aircraft had some mechanical failure on board, namely the lithium batteries. if the lithium batteries started on fire. remember we talked about and mary has brought this up before it has the capability of putting out those fires that are going on. but there's another hazard that comes in with that. if you put out the fire, the lithium batteries are going to continue to produce the gasses. it's not the fire that produces the gasses it's the heat. if the halon extinguishes the

fire but hydrochloric acid and the sulphuric acid in vapor form still continue to exude. if those batteries were stored in the front i'd be looking for evidence of that. those two gasses together could be deadly. >> in supplement to what david is saying, if it got into the e and e compartment, lower compartment that has all the avionics and so forth, that doesn't have halon to it. it has a system that automatically -- if it senses smoke it will reverse the air flow. now if the pilots put on their oxygen mask, the problem is if they don't recognize they have a toxic situation they might not go and select the emergency button which puts oxygen in their face at high pressure and may be sucking in ambient air. >> let me go to miles o'brien. what do you make of this theory? >> this theory is as good as any theory we've heard. and there's another thing, too. there was an emergency air in this directive which had to do with the wiring bundles part of

the crew oxygen system. we have not gotten the maintenance records for this aircraft released publicly. we don't know that a.d. was complied with. it's likely it was. but that's something to consider. once they put on those oxygen masks and they failed, then you do have an incapacitated crew very quickly they've selected altitude, red line speed, fastest you can go at that altitude which is what you do in an emergency and off you go, overflying your emergency field and into the ocean. that's a perfectly viable scenario at this point. >> colleen tekeller, about whats going on with all the planes from japan and china and new zealand and australia and so on, are they throwing the proverbial sink at this now? is this even bigger than the one you were involved with in air france 447? >> there's more assets involved in this one than the search for air france. i think it's time to throat kitchen sink in there. let's give it all we've got. we have a very limited time on

the bee cons, on the black boxes. if we don't get some towed pinger locaters in the area we're not going to find the wreck. we need to find something and pick something up out of the water. >> colleen, what is the time scale here? people talk about the pings, the black boxes and so on having a ticking clock before they run out of time and power, how long have we got? we're three weeks in. >> the manufacturer's recommendations are 30 days guaranteed on the batteries. we were told in the air france search they had up to 40 days. of course as you go past the 30-day limit the batteries start to die off and the signal starts to decrease in power which means you have to get closer to it to detect it. so 30 days is ideal. 40 days is probably all we're going to get. and if we can't detect them with the pinger locaters, then it's just a such with a soda straw basically looking through a camera or using side scan sonar

which is very inefficient. >> and colleen, just because i know you've been through all this before in air france 447, if we go past 40 days which is 19 days away, would you start to feel very pessimistic that this could ever be resolved? >> well, piers, i'm kind of pessimistic now. it's still a very wide search area. and we would get extremely lucky to get on top of those pingers. but that's all that we've got right now. we've got to go with that. if it comes down to using the unmanned, underwater vehicles, looking 1,000 foot left and right, we're really going to be grasping at straws. but i do sense there's a big will to do this. and it may be that the money gets put up to do this for several years until we are sure that we can't look anymore. >> several years, wow. let's take a short break. let's come back and talk more about the implications. and maybe that last sentence that it could be years before we can actually get to the bottom of this.

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we're waiting for word from ships in the search zone. expected to pick up those mysterious floating objects soon. back with me my panel. colleen, you left with a bit of a cliff hanger there, that it could be potentially years before we resolve this. you speak from some experience

having dealt with air france 447. why is it so difficult this one? >> oh, the answer is, piers, it's just such a big ocean out there. and the sensors that we have to use are so limited in range. it takes a long time to deploy them to the bottom both of the ocean and drag them along in the tracks. we have logistics problems. they get snarled up with things the sea state gets too high, we can't deploy them ball tecause waves are too long. it's a very unfriendly site for search operations. >> can we assume at the very least no plane will disappear again like this? do you share his optimistic that this is likely to not happen again? >> nothing happens that quickly in aviation. there's some good reasons for that. you don't want to buy the necessarily bleeding edge technology if it isn't proven, because after all lives are at stake here. however, in this case the technology is there. it's just a matter of really in

the grand scheme of things, pennies to do this. but the airlines are reluctant to spend pennies. because they operate on such thin margins. so it's really up to regulators the world over to step up and say, this is important and it's frankly outrageous in this day and age that we don't know where every airliner is at any given time. there's nothing technologically or financially that should stop that. >> david soucie, what still strikes me as completely bla baffling about this, if you drop your phone anywhere in the world someone finds it. they can track it. you've got this vast new plane that just vanished for three weeks. >> there's -- as miles said it's about the regulators. regulators deciding to go ahead and support this. back before and regulated years, the regulators could say hey, this has to be done. they'd put anytime place. the airlines would say it's too expensive for me to operate. so we would grant them the option of increasing their rates to cover these safety issues. since the deregulation in 1978 that doesn't exist anymore.

as a safety >> this already exists on the north atlantic. that technology is already being utilized and has to be utilized. of course, it's regulated, but it doesn't make sense to me that it would cost that much. >> i fly say across the atlantic. i can't use any wi-fi. but if i fly from new york to l.a. i can use wi-fi. there's still this, in my view, this view it may be damaging to the plane's radar system, but there's been no evidence of that. is it not time that we wi-fied all planes for this kind of thing, where if one passenger had been able to send a message to somebody? >> the technology is called adsb, which basically tracks airplanes by -- the airplane itself generating a signal. this is part of the next generation of air traffic

control. so the technology is already there. you don't need wi-fi in other words. >> i'll tell you what, if i could swipe a card on the back of the seat and say i would like to have flight following and pay $5, i would do it. >> i could send an e-mail to somebody, we're in trouble, something has happened, there's a fire. if one of the passengers had been able to do something, but they were completely wi-fied out. so that option wasn't available. yet the technology is clearly there for all planes to be that way. it seems the airlines are still worried about doing it because there may one day be a crash. there never has been because of wi-fi. >> it felt like there's a conspiracy in action. there's a lot of reasons to not jump to the first leading edge technology. but it needs to be done, it's a matter of safety. you eastern not going to put anybody out of business for

telling them to spend $10 extra for a ticket. it's not going to happen. let's get it together and quit waiting six years. we had to wait six years now and the black boxes only ping for 30 days. >> if i said after air france 447 that a plane like this could just disappear, you would be horrified. >> absolutely. i think that something needs to change in the system. it's a systemic issue, not just a one-time shot. >> well, you all have the honor of being my final ever live guests on "piers morgan live." and i will explain why that is after this short break.

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my executive producer, my manager who landed me this fascinating, unpredicting, challenging, but enjoyable job. we won some, we lost some, but we gave it everything we had and i loved every minute, almost every minute. and i want to thank you all for watching, even though who disagree with me. or found my accent annoying. the issue of gun control has been a consistent and often very controversial part of this show. and i want to say something more about that before i buy out. i've lived a word to america for much of the past decade. a land of true opportunity that affords anyone, even british like me the opportunity to live the american dream. the vast majority are decent, hardworking dependable people. as my brother, a british army colonel says, you always want an american next to you in the trench when the going gets tough. but that's where guns belong, on the battlefield, fighting for

democracy and freedom, not in the hands of civilians. each day on average, 35 people in this country are murdered with guns and another 50 kill themselves with guns and 200 more are shot but survive. that's 100,000 people a year hit by gunfire in america. now, i assume that after 70 people were shot in a movie theater and a few months later 20 first graders were murdered with an assault rifle in an elementary school that the gun laws in this country would change, but nothing happened. the gun lobby has bullied the politicians into cowardly silence. even when 20 young children are blown away in their classrooms. this is shameful that has made me very angry. so angry in fact that some people are criticizing me for being too loud, opinion ated, even rude when i debated the issue of guns. but i make no apologies for

that. so as churchill said when you have a point to make, use a pile driver, hit it, then again, then a third time. my point is simple, more guns doesn't mean less crime as the nra repeatedly tries to tell you. it means more gun violence, more death and more profit for the gun manufacturers. those who claim it's anti-american, the reverse is true. i am so pro american, i want more of you to stay alive. but i've given it a tremendous whack. now it's down to you. it is your country. these are your gun laws. and the senseless slaughter will only end when enough americans stand together and cry, enough. i look forward to that day. i look forward to seeing you all again soon. thank you.

and god bless america. and while i'm at it, god bless great britain too. good night. this is a cnn special report. the mystery of flight 370. i'm don lemon. good evening. we do have breaking news tonight. any moment, ships in the search zone could be picking up some of those floating objects, objects that could give us at least one answer to the mystery that's become a worldwide obsession. we'll tell you what that news is in a moment, as soon as we get it. but even if this turns out to be debris from flight 370, there are still more questions than answers. you have been tweeting us by the thousands and we have top aviation and security experts standing by to answer your questions throughout this hour. like this one from randy. under ideal conditions, how long would it take to completely search the new area? this is from john. an hour or so into the flight, there's a problem. the pilot turns around. why not return to a base an hour away?