pulled off a mass murder. megyn. back now to our panel. kathleen baines, aviation analyst, former commercial jet pilot and mike boyd, fox news aviation analyst. good to see you both back. the lack of may day call, kathleen, that is the.on which so many people want to give the pilots the benefit of the doubt get hung up on. your thoughts? i don t get hung up at all and i can tell you as a farmer airline pilot and instructor, i don t find this unusual because as everyone knows from watching the news the past two days, there is an old saw which is basically first you aviator, you fly the airplane, then you navigate. then if you have time, you communicate. i think that potentially, potentially what happened was so sudden and so catastrophic that they didn t have time to react and to actual walk us through that because as a lay person, you say how can you not have time to press a button and say may day?
arrived at its destination. worried families awaiting loved ones see delayed on the beijing airport screen. soon it s revealed two stolen passports were used by passengers to board that plane. that detail sparking the first real suspicions that this may have been no accident. the airline calls in a disaster recovery company, fearing the worst. but saying, quote, we are not ruling anything out. meantime, former faa official scott brenner tells us the following. one of the things that has one of the advantages we ve seen in some of these newer boeing aircrafts is they are closely connected with all their important data that s constantly being communicated to their home base. by sunday, march 9, reports surfaced that the many may have turned around. heading not northeast, but southwest to the indian ocean. but the search still continues off malaysia s east coast. the monday after the disappearance, the new york times reports the search area is expanding. there is wide sp