radars, all you see is blips. they could be birds, all kinds of thing. exactly. i don t think it actually is a positive i.d. but can you believe in this day and age, this plane, it weighs something like 600,000 pounds, that it could just disappear? we ve got the nsa going looking at everything we re doing and we can t find this big plane. but we can t go there. i want to talk to you about that. i bet you do. great to see you. former head of the fbi. all right, coming up, why malaysia will say almost ng about the missing jet and could the u.s. be doing more? and vote in tonight s poll. what do you think happened to the missing malaysian airlines plane? facebook or tweet me. so our business can be on at&t s network for $175 a month? yup. all 5 of you for $175. our clients need a lot of attention. there s unlimited talk and text.
a plot carried out, thankfully not carried out, but planned by the 9/11 master mind khalid shaikh mohammed to hijack 11 airplanes in southeast asia. some of the 9/11 hijackers passed through that country. if we are considering the terror angle, in western china, where this plane may have been diverted we re founding out, there was a group called the uighurs. they want to break away from china. form their own islamic state and if you want to make political statement against the chinese government, no better way to do it than to hijack a beijing bound plane. the problem is, they re not taking credit and if they want to get attention for who they are, these uighurs, wouldn t they have taken credit for this? well, judge, a few things here. one, they may still have the plane. probably unlikely, but who
now, malaysian authorities have refocused their investigation. they re looking into the 239 crew and passengers on board. today, police searched the home of the pilot. co-workers say he loved flying and spent his time tested a flight simulator at home. malaysian airline officials say they do not believe he would have sabotaged the flight. officers also searched the home of the 27-year-old co-pilot. so far as the search evolves into and around the indian oc n ocean, police have not released any details about anyone on the flight who had a connection to a terror group or psychological problems and anxious families of those on board await some kind of word on day eight of the search for the missing plane. molly, you talked about that last pick i m going now go to
it into air space. now, as soon as that goes off, that unique identifier has now gone and if you imagine, there are lots of flights crossing the south china sea. lots of private aircraft out there. simple radar will just pick up lots of blips on the radar. what they re telling us now is that the malaysian military picked up the blips and we know it was this plane. the 777. if both are true, why didn t they go check it out because there was no plan of this plane going on that route. it s very hard to distinguish what an aircraft is on a radar screen without a unique identifier. are you saying is what is the radar of this flight 370 could be the radar of indeed another plane? absolutely. for me, there s no way, unless you re communicating with an aircraft or that aircraft is
it into air space. now, as soon as that goes off, that unique identifier has now gone and if you imagine, there are lots of flights crossing the south china sea. lots of private aircraft out there. simple radar will just pick up lots of blips on the radar. what they re telling us now is that the malaysian military picked up the blips and we know it was this plane. the 777. if both are true, why didn t they go check it out because there was no plan of this plane going on that route. it s very hard to distinguish what an aircraft is on a radar screen without a unique identifier. are you saying is what is the radar of this flight 370 could be the radar of indeed another plane? absolutely. for me, there s no way, unless you re communicating with an aircraft or that aircraft is squawking a unique number, it s