correspondent david sussi. cnn safety analyst and author of malaysia airlines? what is their leading theory? the i.g. is the group. they have been, in many ways, pushing the malaise yans and pushing everybody. what they ve done is they ve come up with a viert of scenarios for how this piece could have come off the air kraft. it probably happened in-flight or probably in a bank rather than brg ripped off. lot s taet s talk about what
cockpit. it will be crucial to find whether or not the piece of this air kraft that washed on shore has any sign of any ne fars actors. this conversation coming up, the same day of what they found is to be believed the piece of a wing. what about a the timing? why is it coming at this point? it s partly because i situate e simply asked the question? i know that they re not the lead agency. the malaise yyans are the lead investigators. let s talk about these current patterns that we re going to start to see. we re going to talk about it, we ve been talking about it a lot. are we going to see more debris washing ashore?
and then we got the ping that said the air kraft was airborne for six hours. now you have to calculate how far will that airplane trafl given its nor mall cruise speed. the f.a.a. and it really was the f.a.a. and boeing who sat down and looked at the aircraft performance based on fuel load and what a cruise performance-type air speed would be and they determined where fuel exhaustion would have taken place. and it happens to be where they put that new search section. greg, appreciate you joining is. we ve been talking about this all night long since we got the information from australiament we re going to continue to follow this and bring you the latest. you re watching breaking news on msnbc. msnbc.
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holiday funnel is over and the work begins for the u.s. congress. a critical volt tochs their agenda. it s a toxic love triangle. that s before the u.s. supreme court this hour. and we re following some breaking news. a plane has crashed and the air kraft appears to be challenger of 00. but they don t know how many people were on board that plane.