that s the mother of one of the passengers breaking down in front of journalists. she was removed by malaysian officials. meanwhile a lot of attention turned to the captain and the flight simulator he kept in his home. malaysian officials say data was deleted just before a month before the flight. robert haguer, contributor and greg fife former ntsb crash investigator. i have been watching this on tv. it s good to see you again. you come back toughest cases. this is such a sad tragedy. it it it s expressed in the face of that mother. anyone with kids understands the
we were able to lose sight of this aircraft, this airspace? can you talk a little about that? sure. the aircraft actually went off the radar screens literally, i suppose, as you know, in between the handoff from the malaysian air traffic control and the air traffic control there in vietnam. so it was almost depending how you look at it, the worst place to lose track of an aircraft. whether or not that tells us a whole lot about what was going on in the cockpit, i don t really know. you ve already been talking about some of the things, some of the indications we ve got about the path of the aircraft and what that means about how it was being controlled. i have to agree that for better or worse, those actions don t really tell us a whole lot about narrowing down the possible search area. it s a very unsatisfying answer and especially for the people that want to know, and that have family members on the flight. i suspect it s going to be a long time before we re able to narrow down that
websites and actually help search through the imagery. the problem is the area is so huge, and they don t have imagery covering things like the open ocean back a week ago when you would have maybe wanted to look for things like debris. yeah. you know, greg, as we looked into this, one of the things people have said a lot is, well, hey, if this were, big if, if this were a terror attack, why hasn t anyone claimed it? we re here going on almost two weeks out. we looked into this and turns out as you may know and many investigators know, only 14% of all terror attacks are actually credibly claimed. from an investigation perspecti perspective, what do you think should be read into this, if anything, when people talk about the fact that there is nobody saying they did this? well, it s hard to read anything in because if you remember back to pan am 103, they didn t take credit for the bombing of pan am 103 for almost 3 years. the fact we don t have this instant gratification that somebod
i think the it s absolutely imperative because when you look at an accident investigation, as a technician, as an accident investigator, you re looking at the airplane to see if there s any level of flight safety issue that could compromise the fleet. these airplanes are still flying out there, they re still carrying millions of people. you ve got to know really if there is any kind of issue that needs to be addressed. if you remember the 787, battery fires. all of a sudden it affected the entire fleet. they had to do something. they had to remedy that situation right now. they put the airplane on the ground for quite a long time. if there was a problem. so we have to find out if, in fact, this is an airplane problem or this is some other problem where it was an intentional act. and right now the preponderance of evidence that the malaysians have put forth says that they believe that there is some sort of intentional act crime associated with this event. andrew, greg is talking a
from the plane to satellite according to its speed and altitude. the final ping was sent over water over a normal cruising altitude. aviation official are still investigating the possibility that someone on the plane disabled its communication systems. abc news reports two data recording systems were shut down less than 15 minutes apart, indicating a deliberate act. joining us now former senior air safety with the national transportation safety board greg fife. is there anything we know that doesn t indicate a deliberate act? at this point, mika, no. it is now clear that somebody intentionally took this airport and diverted course to beijing and went further west area possibly even south because the