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Again, more questions. one thing i think -- earlier today you asked me about passengers going in to the cockpit. it doesnt seem to match that scenario, because if the passengers had broken in to the cockpit, turned the acars off, turned the transpander off, you know, theyre not going to make a normal radio call to air traffic control. >> so this heightens the alarm, does it not, in you? what does this new bit of information tell you, or indicate to you, or what other questions does it provoke fo...

So only two of them are on the same specific path that would head in the direction. this report that a pilot or someone may have intentionally taken the plane on a path, this kind of shows some other evidence because none of these are on a specific path. and at the end of the day if im a pilot i dont have to fly any of these routes, sean, all i have to do is put in a gps coordinate of where i want to go and i can turn in that direction. if im not playing by the rules that is what im going to do....

Triple of course quadruple, if it went off the pilot would have been able to turn it back on via some battery pack system. >> if theyre able. >> explain the payne system. he was in a lear jet if memory serves me right, we had fighter jets go up and actually they could see that everybody was already dead in the plane and they let it run out of fuel before the plane went down, right? >> right, they let it go because they could calculate exactly where it was going to come down. there was never a pl...

Good night" means? >> at that point in the flight, the plane is already on automatic pilot. that plane went on to automatic pilot probably a minute and a half if not sooner after it took off from kuala lumpur. its basically -- its like you leaving the -- one persons office and going into another persons office. because youve been told to go from a to b. youre literally saying, thanks very much. good night. and then the next transmission would normally have been the pilot, what we call the npf. t...

These reports today? >> well, sean, i am digging on the reports that the pilot may have deliberately taken the plane off course. now, that is a reuters course, what it says basically is that the plane looked like it was flying on an aviation corridor. im putting up a map, the aviation map, we have this. this is an aviation chart, you can see all the lines and then the dots. those are way points. they help to define the different navigation routes. >> this would almost be like a highway in the sk...

United states, sometimes you get a pleasant good night, good-bye, good morning, sometimes you dont. >> now given that, would the expectation be that this pilot would then say, hello, to the next airspace, like you said? ho chi minh and if that takes place who would have than kind of recording or data reflecting that that conversation may have happened? >> well, thats the -- thats a very, very interesting point. because the next -- very often you know about a plane incident or a plane accident ce...

So only two of them are on the same specific path that would head in the direction. this report that a pilot or someone may have intentionally taken the plane on a path, this kind of shows some other evidence because none of these are on a specific path. and at the end of the day if im a pilot i dont have to fly any of these routes, sean, all i have to do is put in a gps coordinate of where i want to go and i can turn in tha direction. if im not playing by the rules that is what im going to do. ...

Air plane he makes that communication. his acars turned off. transponder turned off. im looking at the pilot. >> thank you very much, a short break and continue this conversation. much more on these new details involving this mysterious disappearance of this airplane. humans --

We did video recreations of the flight. in that case they would take the nose up, try to throw them to the back, and try to throw them off balance and rock it back and force. that is the only thing that struck me like terrorism. everything else is basically six or seven pings. and pings dont tell me terrorists. pings say something is wrong if that is all you have. but there is like i said -- >> what about the transponder being turned off? that is something the pilot can do manually? >> no, we do...

These reports today? >> well, sean, i am digging on the reports that the pilot may have deliberately taken the plane off course. now, that is a reuters course, what it says basically is that the plane looked like it was flying on an aviation corridor. im putting up a map, the aviation map, we have this. this is an aviation chart, you can see all the lines and then the dots. those are way points. they help to define the different navigation routes. >> this would almost be like a highway in the sk...