deliberate, that doesn t necessarily mean nefarious. there s a scenario i have gone through, we can go through all the scenarios we don t have time for, but if it was a mechanical process where there was a hypoxi situation, the oxygen ran out of the airplane, it s possible somebody came up from the cabin, maybe a flight attendant, another crew member, and turned that autopilot to try to direct it back to an alternate landing site and eventually ran out of oxygen on their own. that scenario you can put holes in that absolutely. right. but let s not call it deliberate at this point and i don t know how u.s. intelligence really knows from the limited data they got from primary radar, from satellite. how do they know unless they have cockpit transmissions. justin, that information, our evan perez is getting that from intelligence sources. they re saying the intelligence assessment right now is they believe it was deliberate. not necessarily from aviation sources and there could be a
authorities called horrific. the pilot and three people inside were killed. another rushed to the hospital. some with serious injuries. the plane had no passengers when it took off shortly before 10:00 a.m. the pilot of the plane quickly issuing a mayday. moments later, he lost control. veering left, slamming into the top of the flight safety international building which houses advanced flight simulators and is owned by investor warren buffett. mark goldstein, a distinguished controller who only retired last year died in the accident. aviation sources telling abc news that he was the pilot. people come here from all over the country. nobody could have imagined he d be living through an aviation tragedy. ryan smith, abc news, wichita, kansas. a factory explosion in england.
well, but we re really going to have to see. time will tell. and people here waiting, hoping, even praying that some signs of this plane will be found. alison? erin, is there this expectation that that sort of plan b, that next search area is really going to have to happen at this point because nothing seems to be coming up in the current one? reporter: well, i think it s really important right now, officials focusing on exhausting this current area, which again, they believe is the most likely place that they ll find the black box. it s really important to them that they either be able to rule it in or rule it out of the search. if they do rule it out, of course, they re going to say possibly broadening out that search area. they re certainly at this point saying they are not going to give up, alison. okay. erin mclaughlin live in perth, australia. thanks. so, that s the latest on the search. there is some potential progress on the investigation front. aviation sources in ma
of flight 370. aviation sources in malaysia are giving cnn a more detailed analysis of the final flight path taken by the missing jetliner. we re also confirming the plane was equipped with four emergency locator transmitters designed to send a signal to a satellite in the event of a crash or contact with water. now, no one can explain why those elts apparently failed to activate. tamina udas is live from kuala lumpur this morning. good morning. reporter: good morning, alison. we re getting information in bits and pieces, but what we know right now is this particular plane had four ltss in this plane, one in the rear door, in the front door, in the cockpit and the fuselage. so, really, one of those should have gone off, but they didn t, and a lot of people here are asking why. this question was posed to authorities here as well just a few days ago, and they said that
lay earlier in the flight it s hard to know for sure but it might give a clue as to where this thing is. i want to get back to the viewer questions. go ahead. on this point, sources close to singapore airlines have told me that they can find no evidence of this. the shadows. i believe aviation sources also say that they are not look at it. they don t give it any credence. good. thank you for that. this one i pose to jeff beatty. we ll talk a little bit more about the satellite season. he says, pakistan confirmed they have nothing in their radar. did we get similar confirmation from all countries on probable route? mr. beatty do you know about that? from what i understand we have not heard from anyone yet