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Were 17 days ago. hold on. something new, though, spotted in the water. french officials say one of their satellites picked up what might be debris in the southern indian ocean. airborne search crews are heading to that area to check that out. the malaysian government today cast doubt on the theory that someone punched new flight directions into the airplane in mid-flight. they say the last communication from the flight deck showed a normal programmed route to beijing. flight 370s intended desti...

>> at least thats where theyre putting most of their assets. the united states, only the single aircraft. i dont think we should put our eggs in one basket. we have to look at these other areas of the world. this aircraft was on a different flight path when we last saw it. >> how do you hide a 777, though? >> dont think you do. certainly, you dont do it without help. >> suggesting that another government may have been involved if this thing is on dry land? >> wed have to believe there was some k...

Was this belief that the malaysians had data that indicated there was a preprogramming or reprogramming of the flight computers that took it away from the course to beijing somewhere over the gulf of thailand and sent it on the westward course that we have now charted. now, its not clear why that information was relayed to u.s. authorities last week but we do know from malaysian authorities today that everything was normal in the computer system and that the acars system, the system that relays ...

Australia, but, you know, thats based on primary radar returns which are kind of sketchy and in marsat, satellite return from a turned off communications device called the acars on the aircraft which is not designed to track an aircraft. we have sketchy information to identify this location. >> and you make a good point. another reminder to our viewers, though, most of the assets are now focused in the southern indian ocean marks lay shan authorities made a point saying the corridor search area ...

New details from malaysian authorities on the last communication from flight 370s acars system. 1:07 a.m., last transmission, shows nothing unusual, the original routing to beijing. that undermines the theory that someone may have preprogrammed in a new route before that last acars transmission. our martin savidge live in a flight simulator. flight trainer next to him. a familiar thought weve seen you in. i wonder, martin, if you could help explain to our viewers the significance of the new info...

Detected this aircraft just as it made that turn had dropped to 12,000 feet. now, this is significant because it raises so many more questions as to why it dropped shortly after making that turn. what we know now just adds more information to our timeline. we know already malaysian authorities believe that at 1:07 when it made that last acars transmission identifying itself at mh370 it was still bound for beijing. lets not forget that. then when it made the turn after 1:19, it then dropped altit...

Transponder and the acars actually zoned in a little bit. but the positive thing the black boxes were under the ocean for two years before they were discovered. and that means the gps which has a 30-day battery life would have run out. >> we had a smaller indication where it went down, that is a huge difference, two years later. >> exactly, as mike points out. >> and from facebook, dan writes, if flight 370 continues to go undiscovered, how much longer will they search? >> sal, i imagine they ha...

Jason bellini joins us. good evening, jason. >> good evening, greta. >> tell us about this report. its akin to the payne stuart situation where everyone is encompass stated incapacitated and that plane went on four hours. >> some people are making the case being what happened on the plane is that the cockpit filled with smoke. the pilots only had time under this scenario to radio -- to make some changes, turn the plane and then were incapacitated are, passed out before they could radio people an...

Detected by satellite hours after it appeared, nearly eight hours after takeoff and several hours after air traffic control lost sign of the aircraft. by still no answers as to where it was going or why. the search has expanded to a daunting area off malaysias west coast, sunday, march 16th. authorities claim that the planes communication system known as acars was disabled before the pilots last words to traffic control. leading to questions why they didnt report this to control. that same day, ...

Barbara says, isnt co-pilots "all right, good night" consistent with his lax attitude towards regs such as having ladies in the cockpit? >> first off, i guess im the guest thats going to disagree with richard. i think this transcript is very significant, and im looking down only because im looking at the transcript. the bottom line here is, at the time of the firsthandoff when they took off from the tower to the kuala lumpur radar atc, the co-pilot repeated the frequency, 132.6. as you move down...