get on goggles, deal with this fire and put in attempt to make a turn. the cockpit could quickly become engulfed in black smoke and everything could get haywire at that point. at some point, the aircraft would have had to have been turned to the south and then the auto pilot took over as everyone on board perished and it became a ghost flight. okay. well, let me ask another question. is everyone this is a question everyone is still talking about. if the plane went down in this area, is foul play still likely? the question to jim, in light of the news, do you think it was terrorism? well, we would run this case, you re thinking the right way. but we would run this case on two parallel tracks. this is the way the investigators would look at it. i m sure the fbi. they have done it many times in
marty, said in the earlier block there is a possibility of a fire, an incapacitation of the pilots and passengers and this plane just flew as a ghost flight until it ran out of gas. mitchell, what happens when a plane runs out of gas? how would it end up in the water? would it land nose down? would it come down in any particular way? take me through it. it s profile. once you run out of gas the profile of the airplane is going to be very gentle. it s not going to be any dramatic nose down or turning or anything. it s just going to be a very gentle gradual decent. very similar to what you would experience in a regular flight. gradual decent but constant until you hit the ground. and the engines of course are off, but the glide ratio this plane can go a long way as a glider. depending on the altitude you re looking at, quite a
fire suppression system to put any type of fire out whatsoever. i can imagine the aircraft flying around for four to five hours, i don t buy either one. why are you saying that s not true, patrick? several of the things he said aren t quite true. pick your top one. you don t necessarily transmit a problem to controllers on the ground with pan, pan. that may or may not take place. all right. it doesn t mean we re calling ghost flight, if that theory is correct, it s possible the people on board this aircraft may have perished as we saw on the paine stewart air crash as we saw in the greece flight, i think it was 522, where those on board perished and the plane flew to its demise.
off, but sometimes with this insidious decompression, the pilots, their judgment becomes affected by the lack of oxygen at the time the alarm goes off and they don t take action. so, one possibility, someone with necessafarious intent, you suggesting an accident could have happened on this plane yes. and it could have been a ghost flight for four hours before potentially crashing who knows where. that s one alternative. the other is a security issue in the cook pilot. what about the fact we re also learning let s play out the if it was hijacked. we know this plane had fuel for six hours? i was reading it could have gone as far as the indian ocean. it s true. it could have gone as far as the border with pakistan. so, when we talk about the search area, which doubled yesterday, should they be looking elsewhere? i think they re considering it seriously. now, they must have some primary
no known dietary restrictions. for more information and savings options, call 1-888-xarelto or visit goxarelto.com. what happened to malaysia air flight 370? it s been missing for six days. we re not any closer to any definitive answers, but there are a lot of theories floating out there, like the plane crashed or it went on something called a ghost flight. and some of the more bizarre theories, conspiracy theorists say aliens or maybe a bermuda triangle may be afoot, even clairvoyance have weighed in on the possible outcome. hasn t yielded anything. one thing we know for sure is that the plane is simply missing. former faa investigator here to join us to dig a little deeper. he joins richard quest.