A mistake. Now there is confusion because of contradictions. Rolls royce and boeing have told malaysia nothing about the transmissions. Air Traffic Controllers lost contact with the plane shortly after that, theyre thinking around 1 30 a. M. Joining us to sort through the twists, retired American Airline pilot jim tillman and richard joining us in the studio. First, jim what do you make of the report that were hearing the plane may have continued to fly some four additional hours after contact was lost . Well, i can tell you that its as plausible as many of the other scenarios weve heard. Sure enough, there would have been enough fuel for the airplane to fly that far. Why wasnt it on radar . I dont know. I dont know how low an airplane like that would have to fly to duck under the radar, probably 400500 feet under the deck. Could they manage that . I dont know. The captain had a flight simulator, very so fiphisticaten his home, if you want to follow that reason. You have to follow logi
Knowledge as to what happened to flight 370 . New claims coming out claiming the flight was still in the air some four hours longer than previously thought. The revelation could force a further expansion of the search that already spans 27,000 nautical square miles. This as american investigators are on the ground trying to find answers. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Good morning. Im carol costello. Thank you so much for joining me. The search for Malaysia Airlines flight 370, more twists, more doubts. In an investigation that seems mired in confusion, this morning new claims that could vastly stretch the already sprawling search area. The wall street journal reporting an engine on the missing airliner sent data for four hours after the plane vanished from the radar. That means the plane could have traveled another 2500 miles in any direction. Malaysia is dismissing that report, though. Those reports are inaccurate. The last transmission from the aircraft was at 0107 which indicated