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Transmitting. at 2:00 a.m., the plane disappeared from malaysian radar. six hours later, it disappeared off radar all together. now, the pilots, their political believes, their motive. malaysian officials said they found nothing suspicious on the pilots home flight simulator or e-mail. some believe an electrical fire disabled communication. the pilot punched in the new coordinates, but they died from the smoke. no one could get inside and the plane crashed hours later. some fishermen report a je...

This more than 12-minute window between the programming and the last communication, were going to take you to the flight simulator so you can see for yourself how simple it actually is to program in coordinates to send a plane off to a different course. plus our exclusive virtual tour below dex on a 777. what it reveals about disabling the one piece of equipment that could have shed a lot of light on what happened. that acars system to the airliner. well be right back. im beth... and im michelle...

Remember the chinese satellite picture that looked like for a day the clue that would solve the case. three suspected floating absence floating in the china sea. turned up nothing. all but forgotten now. >> we found nothing. >> an i.t. analyst in the andaman islands thought he may have seen the plane flying low in satellite pictures, but not so much. the new zealand oil rig worker who claimed in a letter he saw a plane go down. turned out to be more of nothing. and as you might expect, social me...

Deliberate act by the pilot. the flights original plan took it to beijing. about 40 minutes into the flight, the plane suddenly turned west. why? the "new york times" said whoever changed the time path did so by typing into the planes computer or gps rather than turning the plane manually. the airline said this auto pilot computer was preprogramming for beiji beijing, meaning the new coordinates were inputted during flight, suggesting a pilot did it, not someone inexperienced who entered the coc...

Reprogrammed to make a turn at least 12 minutes before the co-pilot radioed air traffic controllers with that final message heard from on board the jet. all right, good night. this morning, the search for the jet seems to be focused in an area in the waters off the australian coast. cnns jim clancy is tracking all the latest developments from kuala lumpur. jim what can you tell us this morning? >> reporter: well, we are looking at that report that, of course, the coordinates were entered into th...

Lets bring in evan. tell us what youve learned. >> one of the things that people are focusing on is how investigators can try to determine what happened when the plane defuated from its course and it ends up in the straits o. we know from new information weve gotten is that you know, the investigators have been able to pinpoint some way point that is the aircraft appeared to go towards. they found at least two wave points that the aircraft traveled directly to. and so, one of the things theyre d...

Two other veteran pilots bringing years of experience to bear on all the scenarios investigators are looking at. well answer some of your questions. follow me @andersoncooper. this more than 12-minute window between the programming and the last communication, were going to take you to the flight simulator so you can see for yourself how simple it actually is to program in coordinates to send a plane off on a different course. plus, our exclusive virtual tour below the deck of a 777. what it re...

Sort of force its way in because they have this expertise on this issue. but otherwise, as weve seen so far theyre still not very involved. >> michael schmidt, good to have you on the program as always. mary schiavo as well. captain abend is going to stick around and hell be joined by two other veteran pilots bringing years of experience to bear on all the scenarios investigators are looking at. well answer some of your questions. follow me @andersoncooper. this more than 12-minute window betw...

Emergency or if there was some sort of malfunction on board they were trying to find a close airport they could land at. what we do know it would be very easy to do. thats what we want to show you now. we want to head into the cockpit of a 777 flight simulator an accurate down to the last detail. martin savidge and flight simulator. lets start with you, this idea that the turn was entered into the system at least 12 minutes before the all right good night. how does the pilot put the turn into th...

Preprogrammed the turn as part of a normal contingency plan to be executed in case of mechanical problems with the plane. thats the latest on many key developments today. were going to focus on it with our team of experienced pilots in and out of the flight simulator. the search area, instead of shrinking is just growing again today, nearly as big as the continental united states. more on all of it tonight starting with our kyung lah reporting from kuala lumpur in malaysia. kyung? >> reporter: t...