back with me are richard quest, jim tilmon, jeff wise, mary schiavo, jeff beatty.t is an interesting question. is it possible that mh 370 went west to africa, in particular, somalia. let's ask david stupples. >> i don't think it had enough fuel to reach somalia and it would have been tracked. >> jim tilmon could a passenger with a laptop hack into the cockpit computer? >> no. i don't think so. >> a question for mary here. from sarah. could the disappearance of flight 370 be government related? >> well, a hostile government possibly, yes. they would have means. >> jeff wise, did they search the flight path or automatically think it went across the world? that is from thomas tompkins. >> i don't understand the question. >> what are the possibility that this is a black hole? there are conspiracy theories about that. you never know, it could have landed in myanmar. mary schiavo? >> we don't have a lot of pings to go on. if it's near the flight path it's possible. we have a few data points. >> jeff beatty i would say they are hijacked and if they are on board the family

jeff beatty? >> well, i don't disagree, because early on we were looking at the northern route. i think it just has to stay on the table. >> you don't necessarily agree? >> i still -- the southern route still seems to be the most preferable one. and i'm still looking for the experts to be drilling down on those pings. they're already at the extremity of what these satellites were ever intended to be able to interpret. so we have a long way to go on that. >> speaking of satellites, this is from ken who says, can't we look at satellite photos from sunday, monday, et cetera, to see how far the objects have moved? no, yes, who can answer that for me? mary, is that you? >> well, they can look at satellites -- >> go ahead, mary. >> okay, they can look at it, but they have to see the same object in the satellite photo. the problem is they appear in some and not others and it's difficult to track them when they don't always appear in the photos. that's why they gave them coordinates two days after the acc

jeff beatty and arthur ross senburg. i want to start with this. this is from meredith. she says, is it realistic that a fire incapacitated the pilots but the plane remained operational for hours? jeff, the smoke in the cabin theory has been a big one today but you don't like that do you, jeff weiss? >> no. the idea that they were incapacitated, turned to the left and looked for a runway, the problem is that they flew past it and then proceeded to engage in a series of very precise maneuvers heading over these waypoints in the sky and followed the zigzag pattern that incapacitated pilot could not have done. the other problem is that if they had just become incapacitated and headed towards lan could you wee and headed into the horizon until their fuel ran out, they would have wound up near the horn of africa or something. they would not have ended up in the south indian ocean. so on two counts at least this theory doesn't hold water. >> here's another one here. this is from fs taylor. the fire theory makes no sense. why turn off the transponder if a plane is on fire? insti

so i think unfortunately it's most likely it's in the ocean somewhere. >> this is for jeff beatty. , adam says, is there a possibility of terrorists sitting below the cockpit where all the avionics are located? >> that is a highly unlikely thing to have happened. i'm going to keep that short. >> mary, this one is from kay, and kay says where won't malaysia tell the name of the country that said they saw mh-370 on the radar? >> my guess is because the country would reveal that it had assets in re raycar beyond what they want everyone to know they have. >> at this point, i think everything that's being done is being done at some point. they're entitled to assistance. at some point this will end up in the court. >> jeff wise, i know these people have been used in murder investigations on many, many occasions. investigators sometimes use psychics. why hasn't anyone considered the services of a credible psychic specializing in missing persons. >> i think it's difficult to find a credible psychic. >> short and to the point. so finally, jim tillman, anna wants to know, why isn't boeing hel

and jeff beatty is a former cia and fbi and former delta force officer. arthur, looking at these transcripts from the cockpit, i have a question for you and richard from barbara, okay? here is what barbara says. barbara says, isn't co-pilot's "all right, good night" consistent with his lax attitude towards regs such as having ladies in the cockpit? >> first off, i guess i'm the guest that's going to disagree with richard. i think this transcript is very significant, and i'm looking down only because i'm looking at the transcript. the bottom line here is, at the time of the firsthandoff when they took off from the tower to the kuala lumpur radar atc, the co-pilot repeated the frequency, 132.6. as you move down the line, we get into what i believe to be the accident sequence. at 1:07, acars did the last report. we have the navigation change. >> what are you saying there? >> i'm saying at the time of the next handoff, it was all right, good night without a repeat of the frequency. in other words, at that moment, this accident sequence was in process. it seem

former fbi agent jeff beatty says if it's true, it may actually remove one possibility from the list of what could have happened to this jet. >> if i'm a family member, i see some encouragement here, because if you've programmed -- if you're the pilot and you program something into the computer and the aircraft begins a turn, you don't need to fly another four or five hours to commit pilot suicide. this kind of takes off the table a little bit, in my mind, one of those scenarios that probably families were most fearful of. so, some good news there. one can make an inference of some possible good news. >> so, everyone on board that jet is now being closely scrutinized, including those pilots. both were experienced. so far, nothing's emerged to definitively point the finger at them, other than the fact that whoever flew the plane off course had to know how to fly a 777. saima mohsin is in kuala lumpur with more for us. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, christine. yes, we've been taking a look at the pilots, of course, in great detail. we're trying to get as much detail about the

. >> jeff beatty is also joining us, formerly with the fbi, also the cia, also with delta force. jeff, the idea of -- it sounds a soft landing on the ocean. it's certainly very different than, you know, captain sullenberger landing on the hudson river, landing a jet this size on the open, you know -- in the indian ocean is a far different matter. >> well, you're absolutely right. but i have to tell you, anderson, i have a great deal of empathy for the families because i had the unfortunate experience of actually being in an aircraft that was shot down and had a pretty hard crash, and people -- it was the first blackhawk shot down. and people left us all for dead. they figured, well, everybody's gone. they left us. we managed to get a hold of a survival radio and get some help and get out of there. so my experience is i'm in the rescue business. i don't want to overdo the hope, but i don't want to see hope killed. and if this aircraft did ditch, the potential exists for survivors. it's not like the hudson sullenberger. but great book out right now, "new york times" best-seller list

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and jeff beatty is a former fbi/cia intel support officer with years of experience. good to have you here this evening, as well. you see that large object, as much as 79 feet long, could that be an actual piece of the aircraft? >> yeah, absolutely. and to me, that looks like it could be the wing because it's much too big to be the vertical stabilizer as in the previous accidents of american 587 and then air france 447. it's possible, if it's a 78-foot piece, it's a wing. >> given the resolution isn't clear, there are those who said it could be several pieces that are tied together or strung together. >> of course. i'm saying it's the wing by virtue of the fact that it's got empty cavities and the center tank fuel probably was not filled up. >> david, there is reason to be skeptical about all this, given the rough nature of the ocean in this area. could a piece this big be there after an accident so long? >> sure, if it's buoyant and closed off to the ocean, i don't think that's beyond possibility. when i was out there was 1986 and it was horrible. we had 60 knot wind

jeff beatty, thank you very much for the insight, appreciate it needed it.k? >> another concern, chris, the batteries on that black box or the flight recorder only last 330 days, sometime certainly running out. much important mystery of the missing flight 370. >>> right now, we want to take you to crimea where overnight, the naval head quarters were stormed, raising russian flags. the situation there is dangerously close to a breaking point now that russia's claimed crimea as its own. the u.s. is condemning russia's annexation of crimea as a land grab and a violation of international law. vice president joe biden is meeting with leaders of latvia and lithuania today, working to reassure them of american support. cnn's michelle kosinski live at the white house. michelle. >> reporter: clear linger the administration doesn't need a sort of war of words with russian president vladimir putin, and so it's been extremely measured in its language, using the same phrases every die describe the situation and its response, the u.s.-imposed sanctions, while in russia, t