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To 26. then -- >> investigators are telling within the first 26 minutes to have flight, the pilots were already changing the flight path. what we had originally thought, the plane was flying on its original course to beijing and signing off with air traffic control and then making the westerly turn, we now know that within those first 26 minutes, they had reprogrammed the flight plan and were already starting to turn west, far before they even signed off with air traffic control. >> reporter: so...

And seven hours after air traffic control lost track of the aircraft. but still, no answers as to where it was going or why. the search has expanded to daunting area off malaysias west coast, including a northern and southern track in the indian ocean. sunday, march 16th. authorities claim the planes communication system, known as acars was disabled after the pilots last words to traffic control, leading questions to why the crew did not talk about this issue. but the timing of the acar shut dow...

This is the acars system. a system does many things on the aircraft. it allows pilots to send text messages to the ground, allows the ground to do the same with them. an alternate communication system. most important for this scenario, that system would report to the ground every half hour or so parameters of what this is doing. speed, altitude, direction. it did that at 1:07. at that point everything was good. if there was a preprogrammed change, it would have been entered in this thing. this i...

370s acars, which has given air frances investigators their first clues of what went wrong. on flight 370, the acars system has been disabled. >> to disable the acars system tharks is not easy. pie lolots who fly for 30 years stumped on how they would disable the acar system. >> the evidence right now leads us to believe it was an intentional act. the question is, by who? the question is, by who? eating right, she got me drinking boost. its got a great taste, and it helps give me the nutrition i...

How it contributed to the mystery of where it is. >> its not giving us what we should get. its not giving a complete and continuous picture of whats happening to this plane until the moment when whatever happened happened. acars is intermittent. also, its not designed to describe the preamble to an emergency. its designed to send, if you like, checks of the systems of the plane, engines, basic systems, health check. in that sense were putting emphasis on what acars does and doesnt show. we have ...

On the immarsat they had provided coordinates to the researchers two days after the accident and where they are searching now. it also suggested more data from satellites and radar points to come. certainly more and more nations are providing information and assets to help in the search. of course youd also want to wrap up back at home base, if you will, on the issue of what was in the pilots information to close that door, that alleyway once and for all. what was in the maintenance records, any...

And what it was that they were practicing. so we get some idea of what they were thinking. >> as with any potentially criminal probe, an fbi forensics team in virginia will soon attempt to match any data recovered with the real lives of the pilot and co-pilot, e-mails, texts, known associates, policies, and personal histories. meantime, the search has remained fruitless, costing millions of dollars. as anguished loved ones wait, but without a working transponder or acars communication system and...

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Towards vietnam, that it sent an acars data burst, a burst of transmitted information about the plane, which in that burst said the plane had already had a preprogrammed flight path to do a u-turn and come back. thats what u.s. authorities said last week. a preprogrammed u-turn. today malaysian authorities said theyve looked at the acars data and thats not true. they contradicted what u.s. authorities said in terms of whether this u-turn coming back over the strait of malacca and malaysia, wheth...