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could have landed somewhere. a plane full of people, 239 people, doesn t just disappear. so where is flight 370? our big story. it s been a week almost the fate of flight 370 remains unknown. we have new information tonight. barbara starr what do you know? reporter: good evening, piers. a senior u.s. official now telling cnn exactly what you said, there is a strong likelihood the flight is at the bottom of the indian ocean. why do they come to this conclusion? the malaysians have now given the u.s. in the last 24 hours some access to key data, essentially pings from the airplane as it flew four to five hours out over the indian ocean to satellites. the u.s. has analyzed all of that and now concludes that it did fly over the indian ocean. basically these pings match the air frame, the type of engines that was this flight, and there
plane, how easy would it be to land a plane like that, given the wide area it could have landed, without any radar detection? well, i think if you get low enough you don t worry about radar. you can fly this thing on what we call map of the earth where you re right down on the deck. could this cap have done that? i don t know. but i would love to see the authorities get into his home and download whatever is left on his simulator. because that s a very sophisticated simulator. and he may have done a lot of practice. it would take a lot of skill and practice to bring that airplane that low in that kind of altitude to skirt around and go where he s going. let me quickly also say something about the pings. yes, absolutely right. i m glad that somebody mentioned that. the ping is a sound that was designed to give you the indication that you have something underwater. the thing that we ve been calling pings here today really are like text messages that come
unprecedented situation all the way around, piers. barbara, stay with us. want to bring in david suse author of why planes crash. aviation expert jim tillman and matthew robinson, air safety investigator. welcome to all of you. let me start with you, jim tillman. we ve talked before this week about the various twists and turns quite literally of the fate of this plane. what do you make of these extraordinary new revelations? well, they re just about as confusing as everything else i ve heard about this event from the very beginning. for example, let s talk about pings. it s my understanding that the devices don t ping until they are hitting water, until they get into water. and the pings went on and all of a sudden stopped over the indian ocean. that s just the opposite of the way that i have always understood them to work. that that should be when they really start going. the other thing is, i got to
want to bring in david suse author of why planes crash. aviation expert jim tillman and matthew robinson, air safety investigator. welcome to all of you. let me start with you, jim tillman. we ve talked before this week about the various twists and turns quite literally of the fate of this plane. what do you make of these extraordinary new revelations? well, they re just about as confusing as everything else i ve heard about this event from the very beginning. for example, let s talk about pings. it s my understanding that the devices don t ping until they are hitting water, until they get into water. and the pings went on and all of a sudden stopped over the indian ocean. that s just the opposite of the way that i have always understood them to work. that that should be when they really start going. the other thing is, i got to tell you that i find it very difficult to believe that this captain and his crew decided to