passengers who boarded that jet with stolen passports. it turns out an iranian man purchases the tickets for two friends. a group calling itself the china martyr a brigade is claiming spjt. this group is not known to the u.s. before at this point. debris found near hong kong is examined. here s the guess. about two hours after departing kuala lumpur it never arrived in china and the crew never radioed any trouble in flight. they are widening the search grid and the u.s. is sending a second ship to aid in the dozens from ten countries now that so far have turned up nothing. joining us now, accident investigations, everyone is asking the question with all of
claiming responsibility and this group has not been identified before now. they earned an iranian man performed with the passports. it is being examined to make sure it is tied to the plane and they expanded the search area. they are sending a second warship that dozens currently scouring an area about the size of pennsylvania. the plane involved in this, the boeing has a stellar safety record. the last accident, last year s crash in northern california was likely pilot error. renee covers this for more on the background. the boeing 777 is one of the
absolutely. how about this idea of a middle man? there were a lot of fixtures like this. you need a passport or a ticket to someplace and you are travelogue questionable documents. does that give you a further indication that something was going on from a terrorism perspective or would terrorists be unlikely to use a little man and keep it in a tight group? does that add to the concerns about terror or take away. it adds to my concerns because a terrorist group would go to a well-known one. they piggy back on smug smugglers and immigration smugglers as well. he may know nothing about it, but given a sum of money and saying get these people on the airplane and get them passports. it s definitely a possibility and the question is who called him. i hope the man is being detained right now. always good to have ow and
real. it means that they don t know what happened to their loved ones. they are telling me today that that s the hardest thing. the not knowing. they have been out tonight with a group of them and presumably to go to malaysia. normally in these cases, they will go to the closest scene of any particular crash. in this case they don t know where that is. many of them opting to stay here in china and wait out these hours until they can figure out like the rest of us what happened to that airliner. it has to be a careful thing to watch. they are throwing water bottles to express that frustration. now we are hearing reports of debris found near hong kong. 1500 miles from there and if the plane was in the air, they might have been able to go 500 or 800 miles. any sign that there is something to this debris?