fuel to reach somalia and it would have been tracked. jim tilmon could a passenger with a laptop hack into the cockpit computer? no. i don t think so. a question for mary here. from sarah. could the disappearance of flight 370 be government related? well, a hostile government possibly, yes. they would have means. jeff wise, did they search the flight path or automatically think it went across the world? that is from thomas tompkins. i don t understand the question. what are the possibility that this is a black hole? there are conspiracy theories about that.
hard to believe this is only the beginning. but how will this end? will we ever get any answers. jim, my first question to you. i promised i would get you in. this is from advanced security on twitter. is it possible someone stole the plane to use later on our in a terror attack and wanted us to all believe it crashed in the ocean, jim tilmon? yes, that s possible. but there s so many possibilities. i mean, we just have to put this on a long list. yes. that is possible. i ll just say that much about it. could this airplane or airliner be taken for another purpose? is that why no one is taking responsibility and their mission isn t complete yet, possibly? well, that certainly is one of the possibilities.
captain tilmon, jim tilmon alluded to it before the break, if anyone took over the plane, what was or still is their end game and how, if it was a hijacking, did they evade detection. tom foreman has several leading scenarios investigators are looking at and he joins us now. reporter: they re leading scenarios and they re all bad. let s bring in the map. points of reference here. we know a week and a half ago the plane took off from kuala lumpur, flew less than an hour and vanished off the coast here headed toward vietnam. and everything else since then has been conjecture. all of these search areas, everything based on just ideas of what might have happened, including the latest idea from that satellite suggesting that maybe there s an arc to the north or an arc to the south upon which signals were received from this plane. so how could it have landed if it headed to the south? where could it have gone? are there possibilities out there? yeah, there are airports at banda aceh or wes
i m very concerned about where this investigation is headed at this point. jim tilmon, do you want to digest this latest report that somebody punched a sort of co coordinate change into that cockpit controller? well, it would support the idea that it was definitely deliberate, and then it sort of gives you a sequence of activities that follow that deliberate approach giving the feel that somebody really wanted this thing to go wrong. one of the theories now since we are talking about not just this report but the satellite ping that put it well west and then perhaps that northern track into asia and across china into this is in order for that to happen, the plane had to duck radar intentionally along the way. greg, as author of small and short range radar systems, i ve read it three or four times. i love it. thank you.
every country who s involved in this are certainly looking at and trying to play out the many steps of what it would entail. tom, appreciate it. i want to bring in john hansman a professor of aeronautics. also back with us is jim tilmon. professor hanson, about all the theories out there about what happened, at this point which seem most plausible to you? well, we ve got to keep everything on the table but a couple days ago everybody rejected the catastrophic failure idea and now it s pack on the table and that s credible. the original turn-back was towards the closest available airport, so that makes sense. so the initial part actually makes sense, some sort of catastrophic problem. when you say catastrophic, you don t mean instantaneous, you mean mechanical issues on board that the pilot had time to try to make that turn to try to find the closest airport. sure. yeah, some sort of progressive