and very low cloud cover. we re on the coast. that s not even you know, it s four hours out into the ocean where this search area would be. the malaysian airlines is now telling distraught and angry family members the horrible news that they will never see their loved ones again. airline officials repeating this morning the sad news first delivered by the malaysian prime minister the night before. we must now accept the painful reality that the aircraft is now lost and that none of the passenger or crew on board survived. reporter: this morning, the prime minister defending his announcement telling parliament he only wanted to be fully transparent that the data from british satellites proved what had happened. and a decision to send a text
we don t know where this is. finding the debris is key. they can go back to where it most likely is. back out searching tomorrow with more ships and planes than they ve had. that s good news assuming the weather breaks. shawn, i want to talk about the scenario from this data. you re not convinced it s as definitive as they say. you seem willing to accept the plane probably ended in the southern indian ocean somewhere. the question become, what put it there? what are the likely scenarios that put it on that path flying in the southern corridor for as long as it was? i think that the reasonable or potential explanations would be crew incapacitation on board the flight fire in the cargo hole or avionics bay that disabled the transponder. all these pieces point that direction. we re such a long way from being
satellites. we re data satellites. it will require a lot of different people to finally confirm what happened to flight 370. i want to bring back the former faa inspector david. we re standing here on this map of the world. i want you to explain to me. as that plane was flying in the southern corridor, taking off from kul la lime pure, what kind of data was it sending back and what is inmarsat down analyzing? the information being sent when you talk about a ping, it s a handshake, it s i m up here and it s communicating and saying i m here and then it sends something back saying, i am this person. but the information being sent distinguishes that aircraft. and now they ve reanalyzed this data they ve had for a few weeks now and determined that it
way short of where this search a happening. the authorities clearly know this, but i m curious again, i d like to seattle more of the data why they re searching where they are. based on what we do know, what s been released with the new analysis of the inmarsat data, a mechanical scenario, some kind of mechanical failure still seem like the most likely scenario to you? it does to me. remember, you have to look at the whole picture. the important part of this picture is there is absolutely no evidence, none that they ve released, of any criminal activity of anything whatsoever. and often times they just grab onto something, say it must be pilot suicide because we can t find out what it is. gist because we haven t found the evidence, doesn t mean that it s something else. we must fix it.
do you feel though that the level of data they have is enough in and of itself or do you feel they have other evidence that they re not revealing? in and of itself, it carries its own weight. absolutely agree with david on that one. mary? same for me. i agree. this is interesting to know. i think a lot of people out there are wondering, they must know more. this is any mathematical way to look at data they they ve had before. you three who know a lot about this seem very, very confident that this flight did end in the indian ocean. a little more expansive now, though. even though you believe it is in fact enough to hang this on, you do not think you would have told the families definitively, there are no survivors. no. because i d like to lay out the facts. that s just the way i like to do anything. just lay out the facts. you know, they can draw their