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Someone was flying the airplane intentionally turned off the devices, cranked it around changed course, changed altitude. then after some altitude changes, climbed back up to altitude changed course again and flew the aircraft. if that is true the reason why you may not have all of the debris and in the degree field is because if someone were flying the airplane, they could land the aircraft in the water. like the east river. you would not have a major debris field. the engines would break off w...

And we havent got enough information to take any of the cards off. >> just quickly, i want to know about entering this vietnamese airspace and whats the significance of that quickly? >> weve got to treat every single piece of information regarding altitude changes from the malaysian government with extreme caution. there is a very sensitive backdrop to this information. there is an aircraft that has a huge radar cross section that was traveling at over 300 knots across the malaysian peninsula wi...

Experts. we have been given facts and drawing no conclusions. what id like the malaysians to do if they would rather analyze the information on the altitude changes, how they actually got the altitude changes. we have been around this a million times in terms of the radar. there is no transponders and surveillance data doesnt work and draw conclusions to it so when they come on the world stage and give us some information, there has to be conclusions as to what it actually means, rather than we ...

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Tried to avoid malaysian radar. then it drops down to 4,000 and perhaps too early comes back again, so it is picked up on radar. that is the 4,000-foot theory. there are those who choose to believe it and those who says it doesnt hold much weight. we dont know. >> what do you think? >> i am still skeptical. i think there were altitude changes. i think there is no question there were altitude changes. but the levels involved and the severity, because let me put it another way. why go down when yo...

Saying eventually week able to get cooperation from all the different countries for the radar data. but he wouldnt say how many turns the aircraft had made. or if any altitude changes. the question there about whether or not the families of the first officer and the captain who have so far not been able to hear that voice data, been able to hear the conversation for the cockpit between the air traffic controllers which would help identify who was giving the last signoff there "good night, malays...

The 24th into the south indian ocean, then that would have been the day that the ping started. and we are now 30 days from that coming up at 1:30 today. >> lets get more from cnns nic robertson. hes live in kuala lumpur, malaysia right now. nic, anything stand out to you regarding this news conference, and what else are you learning today? >> yeah, we have two questions from the news conference from cnns staff and really not particularly forthcoming answers from hasan mudmean. asking him if ther...

Look, theres various reports about altitude changes, some down to 12,000 feet, maybe lower, to do with a decompression event. the reality is this, for the plane to have gone from the straits of malacca, down to the southern indian ocean, where we understand that it is, it would have had to have climbed back up to 35,000 feet. its cruising altitude, approximately 30 to 35 thousand feet. otherwise, it would not be able to, with the fuel on board, it would not have been able to reach so far south. ...

>> joining us now, tim and bob, a former pilot and long time aviation correspondent. pleasure to see you both. thanks for joining us. bob, lets start with you u. what has people so excited about the partial hand shake is that it very well could be the last transmission of point of contact. >> it could be. its interesting when you look at pings, what weve been told so far you have them every hour regularly reporting in as it tries to make a hand shake with the satellite high over the indian ocean...

They have every right to look into it. >> they must. >> jeffrey thomas, youve spoken to an expert about what would have had to happen for this plane to take this course. what did they tell you? >> look, theres two elements to this. first of all, theres the course change that has to be human input. it cant be anything else but human input. reprogramming the flight management computer, it has to be done manually. the other thing we -- has been told is there is altitude changes. the detail of that ...