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Planet they have to look at. renee, what do we know about the flight path based on the information we have so far? i know nothing is definitive, but what best guesses are investigators able to make at this point? >> well, we know from the latest presser that happened today we got more detail about the final flight path of this plane here. we have our own model 777 here. so this is what we know. the acars system, which essentially tells you all about everything going on, the condition of the plan...

Transmission, the words "all right, good night" seemingly calm and happy were said after the tracking system was switched off. cnn also learned that police searched the home of the pilot and the co-pilot, shown here, after the countrys prime minister confirmed the plain plaen was likely deliberately diverted. richard quest here again. so many questions to go over. i wonder if we can ask first to explain to our viewers who might not have heard this yet the significance of the se questing now, the...

Debris five days, using wind, backtrack data by scientists. a surface on its ocean, and acars data we knew after the last known, the last communications from air france 447 that the acars data cut off abruptly. so we knew the plane was airborne four minutes. that gave us 4 minutes at full speed and altitude 40 miles. the x on the surface. the 40 mimes radius of a search area, and thats a big haystack, but the way you go about looking for an aircraft in that needle in that hay stastack a slow and...

As the plane went out over the eastern coast of malaysia, and the prime minister told us, and im giving you exactly what we know from the p.m. >> and in the haze of information do we know that the prime minister has the information correct? >> well, he was very careful in the way he put the time line. the acars disabled and the plane goes out with the last known position on the south china saeshgs and then turns to the left, and this double arc with the potential that you are now seeing with the...

So is it plausible, is it possible, that a pilot could convey this, all right, good night, and not even know that this acars, the aircraft communications addressing and reporting system, has been disabled? does it have to be the pilot that actually disables that system? >> no. i mean, the system could fail for any number of reasons, however i cant think of a way the system would fail. say an electrical fire. electrical problem. thats going to fail the acars first, the transponder second, and the...

The yair where it was and then they can draw out sort of like a wide v. in fact, the malaysian government gave us a map that shows us the wide v. the plane may have gone this direction, towards kazakhstan. it may have gone down here off to the coast of australia in the indian ocean. it may have continued to head that way to the west. the problem is that they dont know because acars the not designed to actually map the route. some very clever technicians have taken the information and worked out ...

Egypt air. why go to all of the trouble of everything else there? so a moment there, and yes, they are on the, and a piece of the jigsaw that on the table that will be investigated. >> yes, but heres the thing. if it is a passenger, or someone on board this plane, they went to great lengths, and they were very knowledgeable about when to turn the acars system off, and when to turn the transponders off and how to hit the waypoints and how to get the point if they indeed landed this plane intact s...

Out. now with my experience in doing investigations with what ive experienced in the past, what surprises me at this point is the thought that lets say it did come over. what i kept questioning is, how did they get into the cockpit? if this is true how did they get into the cockpit? how did they take over the aircraft? how did they disable everything? ive got a simple answer for that. wall street even touched on it as well. theres access to the e and e equipment bay. in that e and e equipment ba...

Focusing on two possible flight patz as far north as kazakhstan or into the indian ocean. our reporter has more on the search. >> reporter: yes, the investigation has moved away from things like mechanical or electrical failure to focus on the crew and the passengers on board. malaysian police have for instance been searching the home of the pilot today. this all comes after a dramatic news conference in which malaysians prime minister revealed investigators believe the missing plane was deliber...

>> michael, im sure you are familiar with the malaysian prime minister had to say overnight and now the reference to deliberate activity in the cockpit. does it sound to you, including the times report, that the 777 reached an altitude of 45,000 feet that this was manned or unmanned. >> it is impossible to tell. i dont think we can take anything off the table. we have to consider the mechanical aspects and sabotage and hijack. it is looking more like the latter two given the evidence. you have f...