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Number of waypoints just as a just in case, and that would explain why it is that they made those erratic movements. >> thats correct. they could have done that. or simply use a heading mode, which is the fastest and the simplest way to turn the aircraft from the navigation route that they -- the original route. were told to -- if we need to do that in a hurry, you basically just push one button, heading select, and turn to heading to whatever you want it to be. in this case, would have been hea...

At the time that they said good night as if nothing was wrong? is there any way that that programming into the flight management system could have been disguised from the pilots? is there anything they should have checked that they might not have noticed had they looked more closely? and number three, if we understand from that last burst of acars data that the plane was going to travel a new course, that it was going to bank hard to the west and hit a bunch of waypoints along the way that were ...

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, ...

This morning including new radar data from thailand. lets get to duncan live in london. duncan, good morning to you. was that u-turn manually programmed from the cockpit. >> good morning, betty. it certainly looks that way. investigators searching for flight 370 believe someone turned the plane west. nbc news has learned the program might have been programmed into the on board computer 12 minutes before the program said good night to air traffic control. sources say the planes u-turn manually pr...

That point at 1:19. thats when they said good night. thats when they gave no indication they had anything planned other than a flight to beijing. we now know the plane at that point was already programmed to not go to beijing. again, this is new reporting tonight from nbc and as a layman to these matters just trying to stay up on what we know and not what we ought to speculate about, here are my questions. number one, is it empirically possible that the last burst of electronic data from that pl...

>> some pilots will program in an alternate flight plan in the event of an emergency. we dont know what the reason was for this particular flight plan, whether to go back to kuala lumpur or take the airplane somewhere away from beijing. >> coming up. >> flight deck flight simulator in anaheim, this retired american captain helped recreate in a 737 what we know. someone turned off the transponder with the flip of a switch. >> you can see i can press the button, acars and that would bring it up. >...

Americans and now to us. and its very hard to know whether the malaysians have a good handle whats going on. >> interesting because the plane was due to land at 7 a.m. but you would think that if at 1:07 was the last acars communication. they expected another one at 1:37. they didnt get it at 1:37. did they look at the plane or think about where is our between 1:37 and 6:30 plane landing at beijing or ignore it? >> thats the thing it doesnt look like the malaysian military did anything about it....

The burst of data and tells about the engines and stuff. that goes out at 1:07. at 1:19, we know from malaysian authorities it was the co-pilot who said, all right, good night. saying good-bye to the air traffic controllers in malaysia and getting ready to transfer over to the air traffic controllers in vietnam. then at 1:21, that little i dent transponder, somebody turned it off. then at 1:37, they are supposed to be another burst of data from acars. that burst go but theres no data. authoritie...