dramatically scaled down. difficult part of the world. every lead is a hope. cautious optimism. maybe the gold mine. clearly a disorganization. the lack of answers from malaysian officials boiled over. i don t think i have stopped shaking since. several questions, why, why and how. hopes are riding on this snippet of information. hopefully the new lead will give us the where piece. searchers are preparing to take to the skies, chasing down what is the best lead in the 13 days since malaysia flight 370 first went missing. after being suspended overnight due to lack of light, the air search is going to resume in just under two hours. five military planes are going to be on their way, taking off in shifts from the southwest coast of australia. it takes four hours to fly to the location where they hope to find this, two large objects that may be debris from the missing plane. released overnight, the images date back to sunday taken by an australia satellite on
sabotage, whatever it may be. well, the wild flying, the erratic flying would point to some sort of human intervention. but the problem with the data that s the most recent data is the plane can t dive that fast. the plane can t even fall out of the sky that fast. we know that data is unreliable. we know the directional data is unreliable, because the plane can t be going north and south at the same time. so i think the problem here is to sort out what data is reliable and what isn t. and factually speaking, it s impossible that they both are, but i know the plane cannot dive that fast. it would come apart. andy pasztor, you ve just broken this story, how accurate did they feel the data is? because the idea of and you everybody has been raising suspicions about the plane plugging 40,000 feet. there s other data, as well.
fly. but the fact that it if it s true that it took both i can understand why it would have trouble if the flight control system and pitch, so maybe climbing and descending. but it s hard to see that and also the airplane changing course. so it does sound more like it was being handled by someone not familiar with the airplane. jet airplanes of this type are very sensitive in pitch, so it s not as difficult as you think to climb up and down. but not changing course once but more than once according to the new york times. exactly. yeah, the first course change could have made sense, because it was a diversion towards an emergency airport. but the multiple course changes don t make sense from a failure problem. and it s hard to see a problem that we would have in the flight control system that would cause this erratic flying, but that would allow the airplane to keep going for the five hours. andy pasztor go ahead,
have political connections which we need to get the right away. does it make sense from an investigation stand point that they would not have already searched the home of the pilot who had a flight simulator in his house and others? i don t believe that. i think they went to his home, they ve been there already, they ve gone through his stuff. the malaysians don t want to talk about the possibility that one of their own citizens brought this plane down. they re very sensitive about this. remember that 9/11 in a sense started in malaysia with a meeting in kuala lumpur. two of the hijackers left and went to san diego. they re still sensitive about that and they have an islamic fundamentalist problem there, which they don t want to come out and admit to the whole world. bob baer, everyone, thank you for being with us. andy pasztor, you ve been breaking this story at the top of the hour. it s going to be on the wall street journal website right now and will be in the paper
professor. i was also going to say that i m still troubled by the fact that if it was flying for five hours, it should have gone further than the search area they re talking about. so i do think what you would do is look at the directions and go with the flight speed the airplane was flying and propagate that out to a search little further out than they re showing. so i don t know if there s something i m missing. david gallow that gets to the point you raised earlier. andy pasztor, in terms of your reporting that it was a manual change of direction, how can they know that it was manually done? because one of the the system that sends up data from the aircraft to a satellite was not switched off at that point. it took them maybe between 14 and 20 minutes or something around that time, whoever was doing this, to make the transponder stop working and disconnect the satellite communication system. and in that period of time is when the course change occurred