onboard fire took that plane down or an event on the jet that caused the cabin to decompress. joining me now to talk about those two theories why they may be plausible or ruled out. david soucie from denver. colonel michael kay and aviation attorney mark dombroff who just so happened to represent the charter company with the jet involved in that ghost flight and ultimate crash that took the life of pga champion payne stewart in 1999. might i remind you that was caused by decompression. mark, i d like to start with you on that. i m sure that was of keen interest to you when you heard about this flight fridays ago, is it possible decompression was the cause here? i don t think we can rule it out. i recall that particular flight where f-16 fighters from the national guard went up to basically shadow the aircraft after air traffic control advised it was not flying its
if we re not getting information directly from the malaysian airlines and government, we might as well go directly to the source. boeing is a publicly traded company in this united states and puts them in a position of a little bit more fu dish airy responsibility. david soucie joins us today from denver, a former air accident investigator and cnn safety analyst. from washington, we re joined by aviation attorney, mark dombrech and interviewing with the faa and doj. is imtime to rethink everything from square one on this terrible mystery or time to double down all the things we think we already know? i think it s time to finish what we started here. the first place they re looking is ping number 2.
they need to go back to ping number 1 the most extended ping but it s deeper and needs more equipment. that needs to be extinguished. you don t change the strategy in the middle of the road. that needs to be extinguished. barring that it needs to start from the beginning and all the questions they made from the beginning. if they weren t frustrated enough from the beginning, this is one of the most frustrating aspects. mark, can you answer a burning question, we have a preliminary report being completed but still being held in secrecy. is there any good reason not to release that initial report? i think it s important to realize, ashleigh, under the accident investigation procedures whether the international civil aviation organization annex 13 pursuant to which this investigation is taking place or under the malaysian accident investigation procedures the malaysians are
the country beauts to the big jigsaw puzzle. there was a radar trace across the southern peninsula and down to the south. something big, the size of a 777. no proof it was that 777. there is no proof. but we ve got to take all the evidence in the context we re looking at and that, to me, along with the absence of sovereign territories in the north identifying it. mark, so many people so quickly chose the option of a highjacking that that could be the only explanation for something this unusual, specifically with those altitudes and that turn. why does the highjacking not seem so plausible? i think, before i address that, let me comment about this northern route, southern route question. sure. one fact people seem to agree
away the northern arc and southern arc and have very limited radar traces. you know how they are. you have hit the nail on the head including the northern arc and why we haven t heard about that so long. michael kay, thank you, david soucie, mark, thank you. still with not one physical piece of evidence to go on, there are theories where this plane is and what caused to it disappear and doesn t seem to be dissipating, the frustration and angst among those who step on a plane everyday. is this plane perhaps in that northbou northern arc. why are we not searching up there. was the plane possibly hijacked? did the pilot do something with this plane? was there catastrophic electrical failure? fire on board? did something cause it to be depressurized and cause it to be