perfect world. we don t have all that information automated. and oftentimes people can write down up correct information and you scurry to get the correct information by phone. so it s in an interconnected system, we ll look at what happened, where it broke down and not condemn the entire system. mary ellen, quickly, as a former senior profiler with the krb, are there indicators that the gun shop owners can look for to avoid selling if they can a gun to the next they are warn signs to this kind of events.
the germanwings crash investigation is raising so many questions. we ve been asking you to submit yours on twitter. let s bring in our panel in new york jonathan gillian, former air marshal and fbi agent from washington. mary o toole, senior profiler and special agent. and in new york a aviation analyst and contributing editor for flying magazine. welcome to all of you. les, to you first. eric asks this. should air traffic controllers be able to override a plane if the plane seems to be hijacked? it s kind of implausible for that technology to exist unless we get to a drone operation. but what in this particular circumstance what would anybody have done at this point, to take over the airplane. it was unfortunately written in the cards for this particular co pilot. and mary ellen, macro muse asking this going forward, how does a passenger know that the
many lives being saved. he had over 400 rounds of ammunition left and could have killed so many more people and injured so many more people. it s a tremendous testament to the job they did that sgleeching sheriff, thanks so much for your time. i wanted to bring in mary ellen o toole, a former senior profiler of the fbi. let me put to you the same question. first of all, we believe, and it s being reported, cnn has been found, that this man had been seeing a therapist, psychiatrist, had been seeking mental health help. he does seem to fit, however, when you look at some of his writings in the diary let me just set this up. this is from his diary where he wrote cruel treatment from women is ten times worse than from men. it made me feel like an insignificant, unworthy little mouse. i felt so small and vulnerable. i couldn t believe this girl was so horrible to me and i thought it was because she viewed me as
share with you. by 39% they re saying to more than 22,000 square miles. just yesterday, remember, that area had shrunk to 16,000 square miles, which was the smallest area thus far. today, 12 planes, 14 ships are scouring the southern indian ocean. this as you know is a dire ater attempt to find the black boxes, any part of this plane. joining us to discuss the latest, simon with the national oceanic center. and mary, a senior profiler. simon, starting with you, what do you make of this expanded search area? please be careful, the expanded area is the search area at the surface and as time has gone on, things have spread out over a wide area. they have a fairly good handle on the currents in this region but if we re looking for surface debris that area will expand with time. but the search area is based on the pings that they ve picked up
o toole, the former senior profiler for the fbi, and mary schiavo, former inspector general of the d.o. it. mary now represents victims of negligence by transportation companies including airlines. and she joins me via skype. mary ellen o toole, let me begin with you. is it time to stop giving consideration for the language barrier? time to stop believing this is maybe just all honest mistakes on the part of the malaysians? might there be something more sinister at stake here as you look at the investigation from afar? well, there could be something more sinister that s going on. but certainly at best it s very confusing. and it s creating a lot of doubt about how they re reaching their conclusions, how they re reaching their opinions. so for example, today when they said this was a criminal act, i m unclear as to what they re basing that on. as a behavioral scientist, i have to have reasons to support