Their theories. The big question, and i think, jeff, you said this, a reward would be pennies on the dollars. Exactly. Why isnt there a reward posted . A reward would be pennies on the dollar for what this search is costing. Thanks for joining us. Good evening. Its 11 00 on the east coast. 11 00 a. M. In malaysia. We begin with several pieces of information. Item one, the search zone is focusing on the southwest coast of australia. Item two, investigators tell us the path it took, the path caught on radar suggests the rout was preprogrammed to hit certain navigational points. Item three, the fbi is examining
data from the captains home Flight Simulator. We have a lot to get to. First, because these developments have been stacking up day after day, i just want to take a moment tonight to try to get everyone back on the same page with what we know so far. It begins on the morning of the 8th, flight 370 takes off from kuala lumpur bound for beijing. The final stream from the Acars Data Re
is this a promising lead. we ll start with you, mary. well, it is a promising lead, but they have to close this out with the next step which is getting that on board a ship and to be analyzed that s it s part of the plane. and then looking at clues. every part as a potential to have clues. sufficient as how it crashed. any residue, is there any burning. all that will reveal the clues. the sightings and where we start, the examination is really what we want to do on those parts. david, let me ask you, are their analysts on these ships who can look at things as they retrieve them? or do they just collect them and get them back to people who will analyze them on shore at australia? they can transmit the photographs, so what they re expecting to get the photographs, of course, from the aircraft. once they ve locateded a piece of debris, they ll take photographs that the point. it doesn t mean they ve been
don t think they re willing to say to the families those two weeks of searching have been for naught. david, i want to ask you something, here s what i think doesn t add up for a lot of people. there s a lot of people this week there s a belief this was a mechanical issue or some kind of fire. even though this plane supposedly was traveling faster than they thought it was initially. how plausible is it to you that a plane could catch fire, have a mechanical issue and then still fly for another five or six hours without any communication being able to be transmitted? well, it s a good question, looking at it in the compartment all the equipment, vhf radio, acars, all of that equipment is in one specific rack. if it were something like that, fire, smoke, i would say it would probably be focused in that area where the communications are. because separate from that are the navigation, the autopilot,
they re able to take photographs of it, that s all they re able to do. they send it back for processing. but at the same time, it is the ships now that need to come in to be able to take a good, hard look at what they re seeing, at the top of the surface and determine if that has anything to do with the missing flight. all right. paula newton, good to see you this morning. thank you so very much. we appreciate it. the question is what kinds of challenges are search teams up against specifically in this new area that they re talking about. let s discuss that and the latest on the investigation with cnn aviation analysis and former inspector general transportation mary schiavo and author of why planes crash david suchi. this morning, a chinese plane was able to spot objects.
normal. normally it flies at 35,000 feet. but that night it touched the clouds. i thought the pilot must be crazy. that is a malaysian fisherman who claims he saw flight 370. meanwhile, 60 ships, 50 aircraft looking for the missing plane. we re learning the key search area has finally narrowed. does that mean progress? everyone is wondering. joining me, david suchi, former faa safety inspector author of why planes crash and investigators s fight for safe skies. phillip ball is the head of aviation security international and mary schiavo is back with me it looks like in lovely charleston. mary, you don t buy the fisherman s story, do you? no. i mean, i d like to buy the fisherman s story. every sighting that you see, every possibility for another clue you get a little glimmer of hope that perhaps you can solve the mystery. but if we believe the satellite