continuing concern and i know you didn t have much concern from the beginning that the piles intentionally took this plane off course for something nefarious, for instance? i would think it should because that was all we had unless something has come up with the fbi searching the pilots computers and flight simulator and the one phone call that was made from the piles on the ground, which is very, very common. i mean, all my pilot friends do that as well. but unless something turns up there, there just was nothing to point the finger at these pilots. and so i think that should, but really at this point in the investigation doesn t make a lot of difference. at this point we know we ve got to find it in the sea and we have to because it becomes even more important because now we know there was most likely something wrong with the plane and there are a thousand of them out there, these planes. we have to find it to make sure aviation can go forward safely. ric, i want to give you
plane and then you have pilot action. those two things, so many times in an accident, the report of the national transportation safety board, mechanical failure exacerbated by pilot action. it s tragic and sad but makes it soish so important to get that flight data recorder and find out what happened. the passengers families will want to make sure it never happens to anyone else. no question. the next key, finding this plane. thank all of you. mary, rick, kip. coming up news hour after this break, we learn today about this search for 370. ally? 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. we re working deals all day. you get 10 gigabytes of data to share. what about expansion potential? add a line, anytime, for $15 a month. low dues, great terms.
well, you know such a lack of information and so much speculation. right now we are running different scenarios. as information comes in and we are dealing with that. there is some type of event he that the pilots we are dealing with that could have turned it into the zombie plane. we ought to go back to look at flight 163 that landed with everyone on it and not a single person got off. it doesn t take long to disable everyone on the plane. without any information whatsoever to go on what happened that night with the crash or the plane is not a lot
pick out individual pieces of debris but maybe something that s interesting and at that point you have to deploy other pieces of equipment that can go deeper, things like remotely operated vehicles. those go down to the bottom. they re tethered to the surface via cable and eventually a robot submarine you can drive around from the surface and it will either survey the bottom with sound or look directly with lights and see if it can find more debris that way. it s a tough thing. i ve seen the images they look on the first scans and they look like amorphous shapes. you have to use magic as much as anything else. this is uncomfortable but air france, two years before they found that plane but they knew where it went down in general. is there a chance this plane will never be found? i think there that s a significant possibility, and i m obviously loathe to say, that very disappointing for the families involved. but when the ocean reclaims things as it so often does, very
primary radar where the plane is going where it needs to go. that s not a catastrophic failure. very good point. david, thanks for your patience. we ll come back after the break as i want your view on that point as well. meanwhile, did flight 370 become a so-called zombie plane with no one in control? it has happened before. we ll explore that theory.