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Out at me, and first and foremost is there was an unusual request for unusual route requested, and some people have questioned whether weather might come into play. ordinarily, the pilots would get the updated weather from air traffic control and of course their on-board radar. so whether there was weather in the area would not be a mystery. so i would immediately question whether weather was a factor. and requesting an unusual route will certainly raise some suspicion. before you take oft pilot...

Freedom. >> some would call it ironic or hypocritical because the administration started some six years ago saying they were going to be the most transparent ever. ebony and larry, got to wrap it there. have a fantastic day. >> kumbaya. >> i know that song well from when i was a kidding me? though words from a frustrated operator after a 737 landed at the wrong airport. how in the world did that happen? trace gallagher with more on that. all right, what did you find out? >> this is a nighttime l...

Was this belief that the malaysians had data that indicated there was a preprogramming or reprogramming of the flight computers that took it away from the course to beijing somewhere over the gulf of thailand and sent it on the westward course that we have now charted. now, its not clear why that information was relayed to u.s. authorities last week but we do know from malaysian authorities today that everything was normal in the computer system and that the acars system, the system that relays ...

This month. beyond that, russias exports to the eu account for a full 15% of its gdp. it will be interesting to see if the europeans stop buying what russia is selling. lrkall right, 19 minutes af the hour. new developments on missing flight 370. were the pilots planning to take that plan off course before they even took off? who reprogrammed those flight computers? we have live, team coverage ahead. plus, trees ripped from the ground, severe storms battering parts of the country. indra pete...

Even though hes caught in the act. the neighbors still like him and think hes cool. >> a life of crime, kitty, you go for it. united airlines passengers could face delays or canceled flights today because of emergency maintenance on the companys fleet of 757 jets. >> the planes are being pulled out of service for more than an hour while inspectors take a look. lisa stark has more from washington. >> reporter: the problem is with united airlines boeing 757s, 96 planes in all. back in 2004, the ...

Special agents with homeland security are cleaning house. or maybe i should say the skies. smugglers are using commercial flights to transport drugs along with other forms of contraband into the u.s. agents work round-the-clock conducting intense cargo inspections and are screening airline employees who are often accomplices. deborah feyerick pull back the layers to see how the cartels use the system to smuggle in their drugs. >> reporter: its in crew seats, food carts, control panels, toilets. ...

Flight computers. we discover narcotics underneath the floor in here. >> reporter: these special agents are with homeland security investigations. >> this cover is easily removed. >> reporter: they work intelligence intercepting drugs like cocaine and other contraband. if they can bring in drugs or they can bring in guns, they can hide potentially bomb components anywhere in here. >> thats the most troubling thing to me. >> reporter: what makes an internal conspiracy involved is the people work ...

Link between the cockpit controls and the flight controls on the tail, the rudder and the wings. what happens is is the pilot controls the control wheel and the control yoke and the throttles are connected to flight computers that interpret the pilots input. if the computer accepts the inputs it then transmits that data to the aircraft flight controls. what happens is some pilots have reported loss of control of the aircraft without any pilot input. this has been a problem dogging the airbus ser...

Irregular commands that the erratic altitudes in the flight computers, 100 feet up to 49,000 feet and the red line represents the altitude. that means that despite the erratic dialing in and out of different altitudes, the plane maintained a normal descent down to barcelona which would suggest that either he never hit engage and in other words never committed the plane to 100 feet altitude or that the plane was happening with such brief frequency that the plane was maintaining its normal flight ...

Co-pilot andreas lubitz may have practiced a control descent on his outbound flight that day, potentially rehearsing for the crash that would take place hours later. tom costello with details. this is extraordinary. >> reporter: it is. its a preliminary report that comes out from the french investigative agency. it describes the flight from dusseldorf into barcelona. the flight immediately prior to the fatal crash back to dusseldorf. it crashed into a mountain, of course. we have a graph that sh...