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Welcome back tonights breaking news reported from nbc lending more credence to the possibility the planes course change was preprogrammed increasing the possibility of premeditation in whatever happened next. we dont have the answer to that or whether a more innocent explanation is a better fit, some sort of malfunction on board they were responding to. nor do we know whether the planes acars system failed or was shut off. we know that monkeying around with equipment down in the bay doesnt take ...

On the screen. all these triangles are waypoints. im going to type this in here. uvuno. okay. then i just put it into where the waypoint i should be going to is. it asked me to confirm the coordinates. i do that. i execute with the execute button here. you can see now the airplane is taking this course off my regular path. >> so just a series of eight or nine key strokes that will send this plane on a complete areally different course. it can do it in the way the passengers arent necessarily goi...

Martin, put it into context. we are trying to figure out why the pilots never communicated with the tower, given the information. the reason the new york times has this report is because they say they know the acars monitoring system recorded the strokes were in there. assuming the system was still up and working which is how they got this reporting, what is the reason they wouldnt be communicating with the tower if it was such a casual change to make? >> well, i mean, it would imply theres obvi...

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