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Thing. perhaps a mid-air explosion. if theres any microscopic chemical debris on it or any crazing of the metal. however, the facts, if theyve been reported correctly to date with regard to the early flight pattern of the aircraft when it first deviated from its flight plan, made the 180-degree turn, overflew malaysia, made a right-hand turn left-hand turn and then proceeded to the southern indian ocean, that suggests to me that this is a manmade event. that someone reprogrammed the flight compu...

It and we will bring it to you live. also this morning, disturbing new details about that co-pilot that deliberately crashed a germanwings jet into the french alps back in march. he actually practiced the move on the same day as that doomed flight. according to a new report by french investigators he rehearsed a controlled decent on an outbound flight on the same day of the crash, and yes, there were passengers on board. here is what he did five times during that particular trip. look at the r...

Wouldnt worry about altitude he would worry about attitude how stable is his airplane in terms of his horizon. >> what do you make jeff? >> well airbuses are built with something called envelope protection. when youre flying them around normally the plane will not let you put it into a situation beyond its flight envelope or to stall, for instance. you can get into situations -- this happened with air france 447 where if the sensors get clogged for instance and the computer isnt able to make sen...

Can put it to a waypoint. there are a range of ways of entering information into the flight computer. >> or you can log it directly on its current path. >> yes. >> the lady in the back. >> the two summations obviously -- were they able to finish their job, or will they finish their job before august? and after august when you contract maybe a commercial on the water surge, whats next, and whats the capacity of that future vehicle. how many square kilometers will it cover for -- >> the answer to ...

Range, which is why they think they have a strong lead here. and this is really the strongest lead that we have because were just minutes away from entering day 35, john. still not one single piece of physical debris from this plane despite all the daily flights that are emp issing for it. >> no debris. that is one of the great mysteries here. but every time they get an additional ping under water there, it narrow that search even more. will ripley live for us in perth, australia, with new detai...

The weather is going to continue to deteriorate and visibility will get lower and lower. that is going to be a significant problem. >> of course, despite the challenges presented by the weather, this search effort has been relentless. cnns andrew stevens joining us there on the line from perth, australia. >> lets get more about that new information about the malaysian planes movement. we know it turned to the left intentionally and it was not preprogrammed to the flight computer. also the plane ...

Attorney for victims and families of transportation accidents. ric gillespie, airplane recovery clan, author of "amelia earhart," another mystery, kit darby, head of his own aviation consulting firm, an cnns david soucy. the panel is familiar with this but viewers just joining might not have heard this new development from malaysian authorities this morning saying that as far as their analysis of the data is concerned, they saw no indication from the plane that that turn to the west away from it...

Endgame for a long time. until we have a better feel for where they wanted to end up and wanted to do, its still going to be a mystery. >> this is for jeff weiss. this is from curious 2. the question, is do you think it may have been a dry run for a future plan? scary. lots have been made about that. is it possible that the flight computer was not in the pilots control, that the change in the course was made by someone remotely to take over and crash a boeing 777 and then ditch the plane in the ...

Or mechanical failure. lets look at the air france 447 board of inquiry. no distress call on that. it was found two years later. the reason was is because the aircraft got into a flight envelope that the pilots werent aware of and it crashed without them being aware of what was going on. >> i want to ask about these 12 minutes when we learned that someone reprogrammed the flight computer in the last point of contact with air krafk control. is that ir a benign explanation for why they would chang...

Sechl wwise, he has been breaking it down. >> there are a whole bunch of theories why this doesnt hold water. we had some breaking news involving whoever changed the waypoints in the flight computer did it 12 minutes before the acars system was turned off, before the co-pilot said good night in very calm tones. the change in course was not due to something that happened spontaneously, it wasnt a spontaneous reaction to some emergency in a cockpit. it had been planned out. just additional to that...