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Come back east and move in the other direction? that doesnt make any sense. its just more things in this story as we learn more if there are just more questions and it gets more frustrating. >> how do they know that it was entered into the computer? >> this information was sent down by the plane in those moments leading up to when they lost -- they basically were lost on civilian radar. >> so that would be -- would that be at the 107 acars communication or not? >> yes. from the acars situation i...

House, do you respond to that, do you think it was someone or some thing? >> i have been contending all along it is still a mechanical issue we havent determined what it s it just -- i wont rule anything out either, but at this point, it just seems almost impossible, not impossible, but it seems more -- very diabolical for the knowledge that was require even for us as pilots to do what weve apparently seen with regards to disarming the transponder, the acars. it just seems implausible to me. >> ...

Of a sudden made a u-turn and got into a very big discussion about whats it doing, why is it behind us? it should be ahead of us. because they had one identifier on their route wrong. >> this is not a subtle system that there could be an -- >> no, theyre going to see it, and with this left turn, it would be presented on their pfd. >> one last question for you, greg. that is, ive been -- ive tried to be very small "c" conservative in terms of figuring out what is real data, whats nobknowable, and...

Wait a minute, theyre not going to beijing anymore? >> if they entered the change and entered it in and started acting on the change they should know it if acars was still working, sure. >> right. so keith, what is your prevalent theory? the one that everybody came back around to today was some sort of catastrophic smoke in the cockpit. maybe a tire fire so the pilots put on their masks, theyre pulling circuit breakers, i guess, to try to isolate where this electrical fire is coming from which t...

>> exactly. primary radar lost around 100, 150 miles. after 200 miles, what air traffic controllers rely what called a synthetic air picture. that is built up using bits of information, the first is acars, acars will send inform was to the air line, it will send things like burn rates and fuel rates and all the rest to have but also a gps position much the other way air traffic is worked sought a procedural piece. they will deconflict by biff givening each airlinary specific mack number to fly, ...

Mechanic john goleo. were know not showing our viewers any secret information. this is all information that somebody who is very interested in this can find out online and elsewhere. i just dont want to give people the idea were showing something we should not be showing. jim, this compartment where the computer maintenance system is known as acars, walk us through this, show us what it looks like. every plane is different, but how would someone go about disabling the system? >> reporter: i like...

Minutes ahead of time. >> that was my next question. because its one thing for who knows what happened in the cockpit. you are telling me someone on the ground would have had to see that change as well. thats the way the system is designed. a message was received on the ground. acars is about the only way they would have gotten there. they would have received it and they should have known 12 minutes ahead of time that plane. lets focus on part of what you showed us and the fact that we know abou...

Lets check in with don lemon. hes hosting a cnn special report, the mystery of flight 370 at the top of the hour. huge response, don. cnn has become sort of the global water cooler when it comes to this story. what are you hearing tonight? >> what a mystery it is. were hearing a lot. last night we were getting maybe 40 tweets per second if not more of people asking questions. questions like this, bill. this one is from amy. amy says, do the sightings of a low-flying jet on the maldives mesh with...

And thats very important. >> true. and even though i might be a little more intimate with the systems on the airplane, this is not an intimate part of my knowledge. >> as a pilot -- >> this is not a place that i view. a friend of mine after being on the airplane for four years and now retired said hes never been down there. >> is that right? >> because theres no real need for us to be down there. theres one circumstance that i would go down there and thats simply after an incident theres a diagr...

Controllers, reportedly from the co-pilot, "all right, good night" is what he said, no sign of trouble. two minutes later, the location transponder goes down. at another point the communication system stops working, too. that hard bank to the left sends the jet back over malaysia, up the straits of malacca, and apparently turning into the indian ocean. the shutdown of the systems, all those turns tell investigators someone was at the controls who wanted to disappear. but even that is not a compl...