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Turned off. you have the plane being turned not once but at least twice, probably three times. >> and most perplexing, no distress call. >> there are so many ways to notify people that theres a distress, uhf radios, vhf radios, many, many, many ways. >> none of that happened. >> none of it. >> could the disappearance of mh370 have been deliberate? to answer that question, investigators zero in on the last two men known to be in control of the plane, seen here passing through security on the nigh...

Theyre going through checklists. >> miles obrien is a pilot and aviation analyst for cnn. >> it doesnt matter how mundane it is, how many times youve done it. you do it religiously because that is absolute foundation of safety in aviation. >> in the cockpit, 27-year-old first officer fariq hamid. this video shows him training on the 777. flight 370 was his first time flying the aircraft without an instructor. >> so while his experience level might have been low on the aircraft, he was totally up...

Mh370 as well. no success. >> with no response, an air traffic controller in kuala lumpur calls malaysia airlines for help. >> i think fundamentally you have to assume nobody expects one of these planes to fall out of the sky. nobody expects a 777 to vanish. >> and malaysia airlines tells air traffic control a completely different story. they say mh370 hasnt vanished at all. according to their own internal flight tracking system. >> malaysia airlines says, oh, the aircrafts fine. we know exactly...

>> mm-hmm. yes. >> everything was routine until now. two minutes after talking with air traffic control, 40 minutes into the flight, the planes transponder goes dark. >> the planes transponders is effectively the instrument which sends out a signal to air traffic control. it tells you what height its at, which direction, and what speed its traveling. suddenly this giant 777 is blind to the world. >> and theres no easy explanation for why it happened. >> either it was intentional and someone trie...

And weve got to continue with replacing the air max planes with bigger, nicer planes and some are travelling from hawaii the plan that our president has. on united are updated to the whats gone on in my state has polaris business class 777. been devastating, but of course, and some have a minimal impact i think we have a lot of mental there. airlines are finding a way to health issues that need to be minimize on travelers and dealt with, you know, the opioid looking at each route individually. o...

The faa and their statement the other day that they have a good idea of what occurred and what caused this crash. it is still preliminary. the investigation is still going to proceed according to the guidelines of annex 13. even lion air has not completed their investigation. most of these things take about a year. >> best you can because you flew a boeing 777. what do you make of what happened there? how puzzling is it? is it too much danger software? what is it? >> well, i flew a boeing 777. b...

How do you handle that? >> if you roll the airplane in a bank approaching 35 degrees, the airplane will fight you and say you are rolling the airplane too far for this particular attitude and air speed. you need to roll the airplane back. i can still fight that. it will give me a bump. if i, as a pilot, need to continue that bank past 35 degrees on a 777, at least, it will continue. you know, with this particular system, what should have been done according to the latest information that we had ...

Surrogates, if you will, to do the inspections for the faa, often are picked from boeing employees. i was tasked to look at the certification of the 777 and there they had 4 million lines of code and 150 computers, and the faa readily admitted, no, we dont know if the computers are safe, we dont know what the lines of code do. all we mknow is they followed or procedure and the designated inspector said they did. 95% of that plane was self-certified so thats how they do it, through a series of de...

>> does that make sense to you? does that -- i know youre a plaintiffs attorney and gone after boeing. does it make the sense the faa would take the lead of the company? seems like a conflict of interest. >> no. when i was inspector general of the d.o.t., we were constantly investigating why the faa seemed to be a toothless tiger and took the boeings word for it and took the airlines words for it. its not just for boeing, its not like they have a special treatment for boeing. the faa does its jo...

We are inching closer to getting some information about what caused the crash of an ethiopian airlines jet last weekend killing all 157 people on board. meanwhile, airplane manufacturer boeing is working on a software update as the grounding of its most popular product is costing that company billions. correspondent doug mckelway has our update tonight. >> have to figure it out past. they know that they are under great pressure. >> in earth, washington yesterday a break from the pressure as boei...