the scene. so in the early days, were authorities actually looking for a kidnapper? no, no. i don t think it occurred to anybody. but it had occurred to the mccanns. i knew my child had been taken. it s quite hard to get somebody else to believe that. on the very night madeleine disappeared, kate and gerry mccann and their friends started trying to reach out to the press. they are well educated, middle class people with lots of friends and contacts. just hours after madeleine s disappearance, her image was broadcast and e-mailed around the world. she was arguably the first missing child case of the internet era within minutes of her going missing. relatives were able to send high quality video of them on facebook pages and sending them to news desks. a search is under way for a
little madeleine mccann may have a new lead. london s metropolitan police are looking to see if there is a link to intruder who sexually abused five girls in portugal between 2004 and 2010. those incidents all happened near the portugal resort where 3-year-old matlin was staying when she vanished in 2007. police say the circumstances of the are similar but not identical to the mccann case. march madness and today president obama making his pick for the ncaa men s basketball championship. this year the president picking my alma mater university of wisconsin. okay. i admit that s not true. i made that one up. he really picked michigan state to go to win. he did he admit he has not had a lot of luck with his predictions in the past. and that s tonight s speed read. thank you for being with us. we will see you tomorrow night right here at 7 p.m. eastern. right now what is your theory about what happened to malaysian airline flight 370, crash landing on land? crash landing at sea? or a safe
that satellite. that sort of goes back to that last question about why in this day and age is someone able to turn off the transponder and, you remember on 9/11, three of the four hijackers turned off or three of the four planes the transponders were turned off. if acars wasn t turned off we would know where that plane was according to everything that i have heard from sources. i m actually curious from hank, is this something that everyone knows thousand do? every pilot knows how to do is turn off acars? that s astounding that that s still within the realm of a pilot s discretion to be able to turn that off. hank, every pilot know how to turn that off? every pilot knows it. all right. billy helped design the security for that airport, coincidently. billy, let me he ask you this, the airplane, everyone assumes that the plane was fueled to go to koala lumpur and beijing and maybe an hour further in case it got diverted or head winds or it
well, the similarity is in koala lumpur. it was recovered from the pilot s home after this was declared a criminal case and then was reassembled by investigators. what they found in that first review is that some of the files had been deleted. so they have asked the fbi to lend their expertise to try to recover or restore those files to see if there is any kind of smoking gun evidence that the pilot wanted to get rid of about a month before the flight went missing. there are essentially two ways to delete files. the way i do it which is delete. the right way, of course. the right way. and then there is a more sophisticated way to cover up your tracks. that s correct. which i can t do. is there any indication there was this sophisticated effort to delete the files and not the ones that i would use just the delete button. investigative source said to me that a critical issue which is at least not known to us at this point is whether this was just a typical delete or a deep
belly of the airplane up near the avionics bay you could quickfully serial condition shut down those communications. but wouldn t one pilot wouldn t the protocol be okay you fly the plane, i ll communicate may day so i get preferential airspace, look for a landing where they could take 36, 4,000 feet landing wouldn t we jump in isn t that that protocol. provided you get thatch warning. this appears to be a catastrophic event that those two pilots, the first thing they are doing is dawning their oxygen mask as the cockpit is filling with smoke. and then they are trying to turn that airplane around to get it to the closest airport, which is probably all away across the peninsula. that would be closer than koala lumpur which would be another 40 or 50 miles. wield have some debris some place? no. in this case you have not ruptured the pressure hull