straight direction. you know, sitting not beneath a lot of mud, let s say, emitting a signal straight out. then that signal could go for several miles and maybe you get lucky. but that s very much the optimistic point of view. again, even that, all predicated on the idea that this is even debris from this aircraft which it very well may not be. seth kaplan from airline weekly. thank you so much. thank you. joining me now, bob hager, nbc news aviation correspondent. he s supposed to be enjoying retirement right now. he s covered so many aviation disasters. we invite him back for his insights on this story. first of all, we got information today that the radar information that the plane had made this turn was held for four days by the malaysian authorities. what does that do to the search? well, it sure slows things up. i mean, this thing was kind of mishandled from the start by the malaysian people. other than disorganization, there s no real explanation for it. it did get thi
perhaps for another few weeks. you have to get a little bit lucky. if you sort of try to do the math, the math might tell you that we ll never find this thing, but if, for example, that cockpit voice and data recorder is sitting in a rather advantageous position, emitting sonar, by the way, mostly a line of sight type of thing, where you want it to kind of go in a straight direction. you know, sitting not beneath a lot of mud, let s say, emitting a signal straight out. then that signal could go for several miles and maybe you get lucky. but that s very much the optimistic point of view. again, even that, all predicated on the idea that this is even debris from this aircraft which it very well may not be. seth kaplan from airline weekly. thank you so much. thank you. joining me now, bob hager, nbc news aviation correspondent. he s supposed to be enjoying retirement right now. he s covered so many aviation disasters. we invite him back for his insights on this story. first of all
the united states sending more fire power to ira according to the u.s. embassy in baghdad the u.s. delivered 100 held fired missiles, assault rifles all part of the anti-terrorism assistance to iraq to help bolester iraqi forces. united states is promising to send more weapons in the coming weeks. now, the disappearance of malaysia flight 370 is a baffling mystery to say the least. it is hardly the only airplane to vanish without a trace. it joins a long list of aviation disasters, some remain unsolved all the way to today. brian taking a look on that. every airline disaster has
as absurd. tens of thousands of people demonstrated against the government there over high crime, soaring inflation and lack of household goods in the market place. reporting earlier this possible tornado being blamed for a building collapse in atmore, bmalabama. you can see the roof of the building crashing down as heavy rain and high winds hit the region. no reports of injuries. the national weather service surveyed the area trying to determine if, in fact, it was a tornado or just extremely strong winds. investigators focusing on sabotage behind the disappearance of malaysia flight 370. new details on what they are looking at. and lost without a trace. we take a look at the tragic history of other aviation disasters that have remained unsolved. lobsterfest is the king of all promotions! it s red lobster s lobsterfest!
peter bergin, joining us from washington. peter, we have seen these theories pop up before in other aviation disasters. how do these square with reality once the facts are actually known? well, often, they don t, wolf. of course. you recall twa 800, which fell out of the sky in the atlanta shortly after leaving jfk airport. a another people saying they saw missiles going up hitting the plane, turned out to be unreliable eye-witnesses. peter sallinger, jfk s press secretary said a navy ship, and because of his position, some took that seriously. and after the longest investigation that the national transportation safety board has ever done, after four years, concluded it was a spark in the central fuel tank that caused the explosion. and we have seen this also in cases like egyptair, where ntsb came to the conclusion that the plane had been brought down in the atlantic by a pilot