for up to five hours after finally losing contact with ground control. joining me now cnn military analyst major general james spidermarks. let me ask you. in terms of motive now that we have these two pieces even with all the question marks that surround the latest reporting, this is a significant break through in reporting from both barbara and michael were saying. what do you think now was the motive, was the intent? what drove this? >> well, clearly in my mind what the largest missing piece in all of this, erin, is that there has been very little discussion, and if it's taking place, we certainly just don't know about it, in terms of the 239 souls that were on that airplane and all the folks that touched that airplane, the ground crew, the air crew, the folks who sold tickets, the folks that worked at the kl airport 24 hours before that thing took off and disappeared. what we need to be able to do is really put some hard core