covered the story, nearly wall to wall for ten days straight, and whose primetime ratings jumped nearly 100% last week, but fox news and other networks have hardly been immune. >> let's talk about the scenario of hijacking. could that account for the basic question here of an inability to have contact with the ground? yes, of course it could. >> i don't believe that this airplane crashed. i do believe it was hijacked. i do believe it landed someplace, and i would start first looking in pakistan. >> did lithium batteries play a role in the disappearance of flight 370? well, investigators are checking that out. >> i don't think it was a suicide mission. i think this is a well-funded, high-tech hijack operation and it's sitting somewhere in a jungle. >> what do you think the chances are this may have already happened? that this plane wandered into chinose or air space of one of the stans, was shot down, and now there's some sort of cover-up? >> some tv journalists are