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Satellite tracks is because of analysis. it is not because somebody looked at an obvious picture and said, oh, look, it is clearly there. they had to take data they had looked over and over and over and look at it again and say, wait a minute. maybe this means something. maybe this means something. thats all conjecture. the only thing we still really know is that the plane took off and an hour later, it was gone. >> tom foreman, thanks so much. we are also following another big development thi...

Martha: we are back with the latest on this mystery of flight 370 and word that the computer system was most likely reprogrammed by someone in that cockpit to do that westward bank during this flight. well talk about some of the options. john o os ostrower is with us. you have been pulling on this spring getting closer to nailing down the details. explain how it would be the pilot would change the preprogrammed flight pattern that every flight has in the computer system while they are in the air...

Plane vanished. relatives venting at officials. one woman wants the truth and doesnt want to be used as a political pawn. theres little doubt the plane went off course because of demand from the cockpit. the new york times citing unnamed officials saying someone in the cockpit deliberately changed the course. this person typed key strokes into the system to divert off course to beijing. >> someone put into the computer system a new direction for the plane to go in. it shows that whoever did this...

Be hacked? someone on the ground to key in and change the autopilot from the ground, as opposed to the pilot or co pilot changing the dimensions inside the computer, inside the cockpit? >> over the years, there has been a lot of concern about whether or not -- especially the more modern aircraft, could be subject to something like a cyber hey jacking or something like that. its been discussed over a period of time here. you know, i just dont know whether or not its exactly -- i mean, its in the ...

Turn to the co-pilot? >> well, like i said, unlawful human interference. a human is involved. >> we now know that the aircrafts first turn to the west was carried out through a computer system, one that was most likely programmed by someone in the cockpit. so, joining me now, a commercial pilot and former federal prosecutor. also the managing partner for airline weekly. and captain timothy taylor, president of tiburon and under water experts. fred, to you here, because youve just heard the news ...

Coordinates for it to head west from its course that it was over the gulf of thailand. now, how that information was transmitted, that simply i dont know and thats one of the investigations that this brings up. they do know with certainty that the aircraft veered from its course on its way to beijing and did so on purpose because someone changed the heading in the computer system, jake. >> rene, whether or not that was conveyed through the acars system, thats significant. explain to us why? >> w...

Breaking news, "the new york times" now reporting that it was flight 370s computer that sent that plane off its flight path on the way to beijing. i want to bring in jon, our aerospace boeing reporter for "the wall street journal." so this seems to buttress some of your reporting from friday, right, jon? >> both duplicate and buttress. we addressed this last friday specifically when we talked about the manual change that was made to the aircraft. of course theres a lot of us chasing this story a...

"the new york times" is reporting tonight that senior american officials believe malaysia airline flight 370s first divergent turn was 3r578d into the airplanes computer system. that focuses even more attention on the planes pilots. and a new youtube video appears to show those pilots going through airport security. nbc news has not yet verified this videos source or timing. earlier today malaysian authorities said they believe it was the co-pilot, 27-year-old fariq hamid, who last spoke those k...

Questions. like what are the odds the pilots are in this together? why do you trust that pakistan has no radar evidence of the plane? and what if the plane is in the hands of hijackers? and i want to go to our breaking news. here now with that is michael smith, one of the reporters on that story. >> we are reporting that the first diversion that the plane made on its path was done -- was done by a computer system on the plane. and not done manually by anyone on the plane for that matter. what ...

Disappeared new evidence suggesting the plane went off the route from a preprogrammed computer. many checks of people on board are coming back clean. >> ainsley and heather good morning to you. investigators are looking into the background of every ambassador. after investigators determined the missing planes planned flight path was changed through an on board computer system the plane then made its first turn to the west. that sputer system can only do that if someone programmed it on the plane...