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Ready to fly from florida to venezuela, and that is when the play behind it noticed fuel was leaking from the plane. the fuel ignited. the left engine was up in flames and firefighters were on the scene. they used form retartant and three slides there were 101 passengers and crew onboard. they went down by the slide. we hear reports of 14 people hospitalize if with nonthreatening injuries, one person seriously burned and one of the runways has just re-opened. >> a lot of people with a lot of avi...

Suicide on -- in your own mind, yeah, you could put that plane into a dive. you could take it off course. everything that we have seen so far or led to believe to be true could have been done by one person in the cockpit. again, a pilot or somebody with aviation knowledge. >> what -- quickly to you on this 122 pieces of debris that the satellite image -- it could be junk or it could be parts of the plane. the planes apparently flew over that area. they didnt see anything today. >> well, i agree ...

It can hit the automatic pilot. it will take you right to where your destination is, right? >> that is all correct. and i dont want to discount anything yet because we dont have any proof to the contrary. but the pilot doesnt need the flight control computer to fly. so all of this stuff about having to change way points and reprogramming, that is nice, not necessary. >> it is not necessary, but information we have was telling us it was altered on the computer. so that means it was done by somebo...

Away from beijing, something that would have required a very high level of aviation knowledge. joining us now, cnn aviation correspondent, richard quest. richard, lets start with the thai air force saying it spotted that flight, flight 370. then, suddenly, it disappeared and then it detected unknown aircraft that was turned back toward kuala lumpur. >> my question would be, what did they do about it? there seems to be a lot of people, the malaysian air force, the thai air force, the vietnamese, ...

We also know as weve been learning, thats a pretty tough thing to do. and you have to do it from the cockpit. so we can assume it was someone with aviation knowledge, but the when, the where, the how, the why all still a mystery, as i speak to you this hour. lets dive a little deeper into that sharp left plane that that plane took before disappearing. thats really also been a source of confusion. watch the red line as it takes that sharp left. one theory is really a point of stunning simplicity....

Because irrespective of the backgrounds that they have, theyre looking for any clue at all as to what might have gone wrong with the plane here. lets tell but the these two guys, the captain shaw and first officer fariq abdul hamid. official says either of these could have had the aviation knowledge to actually divert the plane and take it on the different trajectory that people are speculating it may have taken. officials say they have no alternative but to look into these two men, jamie. take ...