not be a snollygoster, and is the media overdoing the jet coverage? that is the question for tonight. and ms. megyn is next, please remember the spin stops here because we're definitely looking out for you. breaking tonight, new clues tonight in what for many has become the greatest aviation mystery of all time. welcome to "the kelly file," everybody, i'm megyn kelly, 12 days after flight 370 seemedly vanished by air we have learned of bizarre movements picked up by thailand radar. they say they spotted the aircraft on a twisted and turning path towards the malaysian city, just minutes after the transponder went dark. it comes amid reports that the malaysian prime minister is now asking for pakistan's help to track down this plane.

why? we'll dig for answers after boeing weighs in on this now. in the meantime, the families of the missing appearing to reach their breaking point. staging a protest, begging for answers, anything that will give them some idea of what happened to the 239 people on board that aircraft. and they are not alone. watch as one reporter gets caught up in the chaos today. >> reporter: in the last 12 days they have been given no information whatsoever. >> we'll have much more on that chaos that didn't erupt at this news conference a little later in the hour. and as for the pilot who came under such scrutiny, one such person is now coming to his defense. >> i think he would do anything he could to preserve the lives of his passengers. >> this as we have also learned that data from the pilot's at-home flight simulator was

deleted on february 3rd just over a month ago. investigators are trying to figure out what was deleted and why. and tonight, fox news confirming the fbi is now on the case, including here domestically. we bringin now michael schmidt a reporter with "the new york times" who has been breaking news in this story. michael, the latest on the search for the deleted files. >> reporter: well, this is something that the fbi really specializes in. it is going into hard drives and finding files tha deleted. and that is what is going on right now in quantico, virginia, the fbi has scopes of the hard drives. they're going in and trying to find out what the pilot may have deleted. the question is are these files that the pilot deleted likely all due in the normal course of just using a computer or was there something more nefarious here, that is what we're looking for. >> do we know, or is it a good sign that the malaysian

authorities are turning over those tapes? the simulator to american investigators for that type of thorough investigation. because a lot of people believe the malaysian government is trying to cover up the truth here. >> well, i think that the u.s. is as happy as they have been with the investigation right now. it has taken almost two weeks. but after some prodding from the aviation investigators on the ground, and yesterday from secretary hagel who asked for more transparency, the u.s. is now involved in a way that they have not been up until now. and for them this gives them much more visibility and perhaps a little bit more control. because quietly what they have been saying is that this has not been well run and that the malaysians have not been transparent. and that has not helped the public's confidence in trying to figure out what happened. >> is the fbi looking at the entire computer system that belonged to this captain and his co-pilot?

because we had heard yesterday that the malaysian authorities were saying we looked at the computer. we did not find any suspicious e-mails or any other data on there. it may be an entirely different matter once the fbi gets its hands on such data. >> yes, what is was told earlier today is that the malaysians did not have the expertise that the fbi has. they didn't know how to go back and find deleted files like the fbi does. basically when you delete something on your computer it is actually not deleted. it is only really deleted when something else is put back on top of it. and what the fbi is hoping is that whatever was deleted was not -- did not have anything written back on it. >> so it was not overwritten. >> correct, overwritten. and if that did not happen then they may have access and be able to find out what the pilot did to it. >> do we know about any other investigative steps that the fbi or the malaysian authorities are

taking? in other words, we ran into a short sound bite, but are we investigating friends, anybody they may have flown with in the last 60 days? >> even though the malaysians have kept the fbi at a distance in terms of the investigation, right off the bat the fbi in the days after the plane went missing did the things you would expect them to do. they went into their own data base ba based on the msituation. they interviewed family members of the pilots, the family members of the americans who were on the plane here. they did all of this and they didn't find anything. nothing that pointed to terrorism and nothing that shed anymore light on what happened. >> the mystery goes on, michael, thank you. >> thank you. in the meantime, we're hearing from a friend of the pilot, the captain who says this

man is no terrorist, here he is. >> it is hard to believe that he would have been -- to do anything like that. you know, to -- like the speculation of pilot suicide or pilot hijacking. i just can't imagine with his character and what we knew of him. just -- wouldn't make any sense that he would have anything to do with any sort of deliberate action on his part. you know, whether he -- you know, his piloting skills would be great. and i think he would do anything he could to preserve the lives of his passengers and the cargo, the property of malaysia airlines. he was really proud of that company. and -- he would have done

anything for them. he was hired by malaysia airlines directly out of school. and trained by malaysia airlines. he was one of the original triple 7 fleet captains. you know. great guy. just a great pilot. you know, i think that it attests to his experience of 18,000 hours of flying, great career. >> joining me now, robert mark, a commercial pilot and fox news aviation analyst, also kathleen banks, a fox news aviation specialist, and tom blank who was a former department tsa executive. tom let me start with you as an investigator. when you hear the friend offer what appeared to be a heartfelt defense of the man he knew and none of the rest of us did, your

thoughts on how -- on that take, on the captain and how the investigators need to go about figuring out for themselves who this man really was. >> well, that is an important data point. pleased to have it out in the public. but it certainly doesn't go far enough. i think it is also important that we have some interaction with other pilots and co-pilots that this gentleman has flown with over the past 60/90 days, even longer. i would be interested in the observations of flight crew that have worked with him and also interested in what the evaluations done by malaysia have said about him. there should be something we could glean from that about whether there were any problems in his mental state. unusual behaviors, anxiety and those kind of things. that is what we would want to know from others that would have come into contact with him. >> do we do those tests on our pilots here in the united

states? >> for faa pilots, they are subjected to ongoing evaluations, health evaluations, some of which involve psychological evaluation. and certainly those that come into contact, flight crews and oth others are encouraged to make reports if they see a problem because if you don't have that kind of a culture you're going to have an accident, if not a hijacking or other kind of security incident. >> and yet it is only really relevant if they did it in very recent history. kathleen, let me ask you as somebody who knows how to fly an airplane, as well. they had told us earlier that these two pilots did not make a request to fly together. and that suggests you know, what, if they were in on it together it was just happened -- they just got lucky. if you're assuming from nefarious action? >> yes, it would have been way too coincidental, it is wonderful we heard that. because that is a huge piece of the puzzle to know they did not

request a flight together. it is hard to see, but i think as tom said it is hard to see what the lawyers see. i don't know what they would allow, it would be helpful to hear from other flight crew that flew with him, to see into his company records i think would help us complete the puzzle. >> what do you make of the fact -- i know it drives you crazy, kathleen, to hear somebody talk about the flight simulator, you say it is not a machine, basically a simulator you can get on the cheap. >> he has kind of a jerry rigged set-up at home. that is not to say anything negative about it. i keep hearing that it is like an expensive piece of equipment -- >> let's talk about the deleted files on february 3rd. what does it mean to you? >> at this point it means nothing, we all delete files all the time.

on his flight device, he is trying to maintain space -- >> what if they found deleted routes that mean suspicious? >> what does that mean? as a simulator instructor, we put all kinds of crazy airlines that we may never have flown into. so i think that by itself, i am really glad the fbi is in on this. until they tell us what is on there right now, i don't think we'll find anything. >> rob, you think trying to get your arms around who this pilot is, we're told by some that the captain's marriage appeared to be breaking up? >> well, i think it is going to be important as somebody mentioned earlier that the most important people to talk to are the people that have been flying with both of these guys for the last 60/90, 120 days. when you sit in the cockpit with somebody else and they're maybe two feet away from you for four or six or eight, ten, 12 hours

at a crack you can get into some really interesting conversations. not always great, but again, you learn an awful lot about the person you fly with because we usually would fly with somebody for 30 days, for a month-long schedule. >> it would be interesting to find out if this is a route for both of them -- the first time on the triple 7, the captain, i don't know how often he has flown that route or how he came to fly it that day. that would be an interesting question. in the meantime, there is another bombshell in the malaysia plane mystery and it involves this story. >> the only thing that i have seen that is starting to become verified is the report that from boeing -- from boeing saying they believe the airplane was in pakistan. >> what? now boeing has responded to that claim. and general tom mcinerney who made it joins us next. plus, we'll investigate the question we are hearing from the

angry families of the missing passengers. is the government of malaysia hiding something here?

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within boeing is claiming that the company, boeing, which made the jet, also believes this airplane is in pakistan right now. as we first reported here last night the jet changed course shortly after takeoff, adding fuel to the hijacking theory. in other words, they had made the change, had programmed it in at least prior to signing off from air traffic control without mentioning that. general tom mcinerney is a retired air force pilot and a fox news contributor. general, good to see you. so as i understand it a source within boeing reportedly told this group, lignet, a retired bunch of cia types, boeing came out today after you talked about that on fox news yesterday and said we don't have information. i want to get the denial, the boeing company does not have information that substantiates your claims. your thoughts?

>> well, i'm glad they came up in the net. that doesn't necessarily mean that it is not true. and because we don't know i am -- i'm still trying to figure it out myself. i did find out that the distance from kuala lumpur from beijing and the distance from kuala lumpur to pakistan, lahore, is the same distance, roughly 2700 miles. >> is that right? because we were wondering if the airplane had enough fuel to make it to pakistan. >> correct, so i did some computations on my iphone with siri, and those are the distances i have to verify. but it is strange that if they are the approximate same distances and the pilot erased his data, and despite what the lady said there, that they erase things, we all erase things. but it may be very interesting,

the data that they erased when we look at it. we don't have anything on it. now, the distance to diego is shorter, 121 miles. but my understanding, i haven't seen any data that corroborates that they went south. and understanding this and looking at it and i believe the pilots were involved. this is too smooth. this transition was too smooth. i think there is a lot of different intelligence coming out of the malaysian government that has been not verified. and they're not coming clean with this. and the u.s. government has not come clean with this. and boeing and rolls royce have a lot of data that they have not put out in the public air ways, and i think they ought to. i still think a course of action now, megyn, is that the airplane went north and it went into either pakistan or eastern iran. i don't -- cannot confirm that.

but all the data i have, this would be a course of action, again, a course of action. if you don't take the right courses of action you can't look into the right data bases. and people are making a lot of statements about well, the radars would have picked them up coming up, et cetera. those controllers at 2:00 a.m. are not looking on skin pings, they're looking for transponders. and i dare to say that there is probably not an air force along that whole route that is on alert, 15-minute alert at 2:00 or 3:00 or 4:00 a.m. that is not the threat. >> i know you are very well connected in the intel circles in this country and military, as well. so you have information, not all of which you can share with us. but what other data, in your mind, is here that suggests this plane may have landed, the original report claimed it may have landed in taliban-controlled territories.

i know you took that to mean pakistan. >> yeah, western pakistan. they have got three bases out there. i don't know that but i looked at what the pakistani air force has in the west side there, western part of the country. and there are three bases that could have handled this. i don't know if these were the bases. i just think that we ought to hear from the u.s. government that the denial that they have any data that shows that this airplane would have landed there. now again, they wouldn't have got it necessarily at landing. they would have gotten it different ways and they have to go into those data bases. rcia, they have to go wn to into other data bases so they will not find that. that is the reason people have to take the right courses of action so they look into the right data bases. >> it is very interesting now that malaysia is seeking pakistan's cooperation if your

theory is true, thank you, general. and coming up, twa crash that was one of the worst in history and triggered one of the most costly investigations that america has ever seen. the man behind that investigation joins us live tonight with his thoughts on missing flight 370. and wait until you hear what he thinks about pakistan, in particular. plus, chaos breaks out ahead of a news conference on the malaysia jet disappearance, up next, why the malaysian government is facing tough new questions about what it is saying and what it is not. latte or au lait?

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heartbreaking scenes today in malaysia as agonized families try to get some answers from the authorities there. one woman just broke down. it is unbelievable, a reporter with our sister network, sky news, also caught up in the chaos. >> reporter: people are swarming, being shoved by the authorities. so we're going to try to stand

up -- i'm going to try to stay out of the way, while i'm still reporting for you. literally shoving people out of the way. and she can't move. 239 members on board that aircraft. these two ladies had loved ones on board. for the last 12 days they have been given no information whatsoever. >> can you imagine? former new jersey state criminal investigator, john, good to see you again. that woman who was crying like that was removed by the malaysian authorities, having many saying cover up, cover up. trying to silence the victims, it could have been just crowd control. but it is chaos. >> there seems to be some type of cover-up. but what that is for, you know, you don't have to look at the

investigation, to realize this has been an incompetent investigation from day one. >> why, what keeps changing? >> the facts keep changing, they release information and say something totally different. look at the new timeline they released. look at how much time it took to get them to the houses of the pilots. they're part of the investigation, we have to go in there. they waited several daysment look how long the military took just to be able to say we saw it on our military radar and when asked what did they say? well, we were not asked specifically. right? when you see investigations conducted like this, we can appreciate the blessings of american exceptionalism. >> we wasted o-- apparently the wasted four or five days, regarding the plane turning and heading west.

>> the new time line doesn't match up. here is why, when they said at 1:07 that it made the turn, and 12 minutes later they handed off the control and the guy said good night, right? guess what? by that time they would have been 90 miles off course. that tells me that act was not controlling them at that time. because had they been controlling them when they got off course 90 miles, they would have been right on top of it, saying why are you changing? >> last night, our expert said they may not have actually seen it make the turn and go off course. and it is interesting that they went to do that just as they left the malaysian air space and went to the vietnam control. >> they were not going towards vietnam, they were going westbound towards the strait of malacca. that is where they lost the airplane, what kind of excuse do

you give your people when you say that 60 miles, or whatever it was just outside the airport we lost this airplane in our air space? that was under our control. could you imagine our government trying to convince the american people 60 miles off la guardia we just can't find this airplane. that wouldn't happen. >> as you listen to the authorities do you feel we're dealing with incompetent or we're dealing with a cover-up. because there are some who believe that these pilots, one or both of them did something and that the malaysian government knows it and doesn't want to say to the world our guys did something bad to this pla plane? >> right, they did something bad to the plane, they're covering up something because it appears they don't want to give the information out. facts keep changing in this case. so i believe there is some incompetence. remember, this government is not like ours, they don't always have resources and the problem

is they got caught off guard. >> what do you think happened? >> i believe these people landed in some place, yes, there are other facts and theories, i believe this airplane has landed. i believe they have hostages and i believe they have an airplane now. >> wow. john, thank you. >> i could be wrong. >> well, i mean, whatever the theory is a lot of people will be wrong no matter how it turns out. we just hope we finally get answers. and we have details tonight on the plane's missing flight path after it lost control with the control. and leading to one of the most challenging investigations in u.s. history happening in 1996 in long island. the man who led that effort, james kallstrom is here next with his thoughts on where flight 370 might be. you have to hear this, next. ske a simple question: in retirement, will you outlive your money?

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, well, one of the big developments from the missing plane tonight is involving new radar information. thailand reports they were tracking this plane and lost it and picked up another aircraft flying in a bizarre way toward the west. trace gallagher has more, trace? >> and remember megyn, we're dealing with radar from two different countries, malaysia and thailand and now we're trying to blend the two together. at 1:22, three minutes after the co-pilot said good night the plane was picked up by military still on course. at 1:28, the thai military says it might have been the same one following a twisting path, turned towards malaysia, they say the signal was infrequent and won't say when the plane was last detected but didn't pay attention to it at the time

because they say it did not pose a threat. but their timing would jibe with malaysian military radar that picked up the plane 14 minutes later going into the strait of malacca. and remember that report of the malaysian military detecting the plane that was zig-zagging the plane going towards another area, but they didn't confirm that. it would put the plane going to pakistan, iran, countries with sophisticated radar that never detected it. here is what china said about the radar, listen. >> at the moment we've not found any sign that the missing malaysian airlines airliner entered the chinese territorial air space. work is still under way, and we have already shared relevant satellite data with malaysia. >> and keep in mind if the plane was going north, megyn, then why is the focus of the search now

in the southern indian ocean. malaysia says they have gotten radar information from other countries but as of tonight they won't say which countries those are, megyn? >> trace, thank you. nearly two weeks into the search and we are reminded of another air disaster that once confused this country. the 1986 flight, twa flight, a boeing 747 took off from new york city around 9:00 p.m. minutes later it exploded, the wreckage raining down in a ten-mile debris field in the atlantic ocean. all 230 people on board were killed. the investigator, james kallstrom was called to lead the most extensive air disaster in american history, he sifted through a million pieces of debris and four years later they were able to determine that the crash was caused by a fuel tank explosion. joining me now, james kallstrom,

former fbi assistant director in charge, and a chairman of the marine corps law enforcement foundation. thank you for being here, james. >> thank you. >> your thoughts know iing whate know tonight on what happened to this airplane. >> it is very confusing environment we have there. i think after all this time that they have not found any debris, i mean, you really have three things. the pilots wanted to kill themselves, suicide by airplane. they had ample opportunity to do that. they wanted to cause a major stir, to blow up something, they had ample opportunity to do that. or they want to take the plane for other reasons. >> uh-huh. >> and i would guess, that is my leading thought on the issue right now. >> over mechanical failure? >> yeah, i don't see where the mechanical failure adds up. because you know if they had mechanical failure and they were try to may day they did none of

that. they continue to fly, of course you have to idea can you believe this data? you know, some of the data cancels itself out. so the whole baseline of the investigation is really on sand. you know when you move out there so it will be very difficult. but assuming that is correct, and it did go on for another five and a half or six hours, you know, what is the sense of doing that if you just want to crash the plane or you want to -- unless you are totally out of your mind. >> some speculation there was a sort of fire on board, or the cockpit, and the reason there was no communication was the pilot and co-pilot were incapacitated and the auto pilot they programmed in to look for a landing spot was what took them out over malaysia. >> i guess theoretically that could have been the case, there are so many opportunities on the aicate. there are multi layers of opportunity, radios, satellite

redu radios, all kinds of radios to make it happen. i just don't see that happening. >> if you believe the airplane crashed into the ocean as opposed to landing in someplace, that we would have seen debris someplace. >> well, if there was a catastrophic event, the plane blows up by altitude, either a bomb or mechanical failure, you would see hundreds and thousands of pieces over the ocean. but now it has been what? going on two weeks. so that you know, within a week of twa flight 800 the debris was landing on the beaches of cape may. in nantucket island. so even if they figure out where that spot was, you know, they're going to have to do real calculations on the drifts, the tides. and if it is suicide by earairl, there is not going to be that much debris. >> what about the theory if this plane had a mechanical failure

and flew on auto pilot, they say it is not possible because it flew with such a good design. if by chance it did go into the indian ocean do you believe it would largely be in one piece? in other words if it had not crashed in the air and it just descended for a lack of fuel? >> i don't think it would be in one piece but surely it wouldn't be in hundreds of thousands of pieces. it would be in big chunks of pieces. >> if you believe the airline was hijacked either by the pilots or somebody on the plane. you heard general mcinerney who believes that could be a possible. do you think this could be in pakistan? >> that could all be true. but you're not going to get the u.s. government to talk about it. if they did talk about it and they worked for me we would fire them. there is a good chance, i have no inside information. but if they have located the plane they're not going to be out blabbing about it.

they're going to put some operation together if people were still alive or whatever, to get the plane out of the arsenal of a future terrorist operation. so i'm sure there is a lot going on. i am sure there is a lot of assets both here and through our allies that a lot of stuff is going on. we know a lot, and thankfully they're not talking about all of it. but i would not be surprised if at some point we find this plane somewhere. >> wow. before i let you go. this foundation that you're involved in for a very worthy cause tell me about it. >> well, we give scholarships to the children left behind. marines that are killed over in afghanistan, places like that. other law enforcement people killed in the line of duty. in fact there was a period of time when we were doing all the services. we're a volunteer organization, a one-paid employee. if you give me $100 i put almost 99 cents of that dollar for the children's scholarships. >> good.

>> so our website is mc-fdl.org. if you're out there, you can give us $25, there are still a lot of people in the pipeline. right now we're facing over a million dollars of people in the pipeline that we have to fund for. >> really good cause, general, thank you so much for being on and talking about it. all the best to you. >> thank you, megyn. >> all right, we mentioned this a moment ago, reports that the malaysian airplane may have flown to pakistan and landed. that is chilling if true. up next our panel of pilots and investigators weigh in on that one. this is the oreck magnesium rs

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silence. are you in good hands? back now to a big development we're tracking tonight, earlier we spoke with retired air force general tom mcinerney that this plane was flown to pakistan, listen. >> i still think a course of action, now, megyn, is that the airplane went north and it went into either pakistan or eastern iran. i don't -- cannot confirm that. but all the data i have, this would be a course of action, again, a course of action. >> back now to our panel. robert mark, a commercial panel and aviation analyst, and kathleen banks, former airline instructor and an aviation specialist, and bob young, former ntsb investigator who also investigated the crash.

your thoughts on how -- whether this is a possibility and how we would go about investigating it when you have pakistan saying who, us? what, we didn't even see it on the radar, we don't know what you're talking about. >> well, i think that for the airplane -- and i don't have a chart in front of me. but for the airplane to go to eastern iran or pakistan it would have to transit indian air space. and it would have to do it attitude. because if the airplane did it at -- a lower altitude to try to avoid radar it would not have the fuel to do it. so it would have to do it at an altitude in the 30 or 35 -- to 39,000 foot range. and i would be very surprised if the indian air defense radars wouldn't have picked it up. >> even in the dark of night, which happened around 5:00 a.m. their time? >> well, as i say, i suspect it

-- that the indian air defense radar is probably around 24 hours a day. and i would be very surprised if you could get across the indian sub-continent with an airplane the size of a triple 7, even on skin paint. >> they say because the transponder had been turned off then. robert, there are some theories that the plane managed to do it by flying sort of behind another airplane that looked legitimate and sort of hid. do you believe that is possible? >> oh, i think it is possible. i mean, if you turn off the transponder so that no one can see the data return from the airplane and you were to tuck yourself right up underneath the other airplane here, i mean, the radar would not be able to detect the difference between the one airplane and the second one if it was close enough. >> would the first airplane have to be in on it. because wouldn't it be saying what the heck is that guy doing behind me? >> no, see that is one of the

issues that makes this plausible. with the hijacked airplane having turned off its transponder it would be virtually invisible to the lead aircraft. and they would never even know it was there. they would never even know when it left. >> kathleen, your thoughts on this. before jim kallstrom just left, he said no debris turns up. and if the u.s. navy abandons this search in the next couple of days this plane is not in the ocean. because he said they may not have the technology to find this aircraft in the ocean but we do. >> yeah, i think the tuck-up theory is so highly unlikely the odds that one of those pilots would have that kind of skill that they would home in on that airplane in the dark, remember the plane was flying in the dark that they would be able to keep a safe distance and become one radar blip together, that just defies the odds of logic that

that could occur. >> do you think they could have done it on their own, that it was dark, the transponder, that the folks in india missed it? >> yes, what is true, there is obviously huge gaps in the radar, megyn if i had to pick what i thought, there was a chance the plane hit the ocean a lot sooner than anybody thinks, perhaps the marks they got off the satellite are not correct. >> you think the plane flew on auto pilot from the east of malaysia all the way over to the indian coast and crashed out to sea? >> or there was a possibility the plane was basically off the auto pilot but the triple 7 is a very stable airplane and it basically flew on its own in what they would call a ghost ship. not unlike what happened in greece. >> where the people on board were obviously deceased and the auto pilot took it into it ran

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well, as the world remains transfixed on the missing jetliner, in ukraine, there could be a serious blow to diplomacy. our chief white house correspondent ed henry reporting from washington, ed? >> reporter: well, megyn, is shows how the president's foreign policy could unravel in

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we have a ton of feedback on james mcinerney, theory, let me know what you think, thank you for joining us, this is "the kelly file," i'm megyn kelly see you tomorrow night. and this is a fox news alert, it is now day 12 of the greatest aviation history. flights were fleeted on the pilot's home simulator. standing by in washington, d.c. with the very latest, with fox's own catherine herridge, the mystery grows wider. >> reporter: it certainly does, the fbi is doing a study of the simulator and the hard drive recovered from