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Sleep. but my scenario is a smoul smouldering fire that created smoke and once that began the crew donned their oxygen masks. you cant totally see all of that smoke from breathing and youre going to get toxic fumes, depending on what is burning. so my scenario is they approached that point where it sounded like there was a normal situation. there may have been something on the screen that indicated a slight fault, maybe a shrug of the shoulder and then it started to progress if it was a fire sit...

Investigators start eliminating them? and with all of the technology in this world, why is it that planes dont have an unstoppable tracking device attached? were going to begin with a big development tonight. reports that flight 370s abrupt turn to the left was programmed into the onboard computer at least 12 minutes before the co-pilots famous final words "all right, good night." cnns jim sciutto and richard quest are both here. the planes program was changed at least 12 minutes before. what do...

Regular route flight that trip would be saved in the flight management computer as a code and then they fly that trip every time they fly that flight. >> mm-hmm. and same reckoning of this? because im trying to give every benefit of the doubt to the pilots that we can until the facts dictate otherwise. this does line up like a bad fact. this isnt routinely and not ne people? >> i dont see any reason they would do that unless they had -- perhaps a specific reason, they had to have an alternate, t...

Malaysian airport. what do you make through that, les? >> to me its one of the more plausible scenarios. im not sold on that scenario. but up until the point we got this information which im still skeptical about the 12 minutes prior, it seemed to me that having a smokization, getting beyond that last verbal communication with air traffic control, it seems to me that if the crew was trying to handle an emergency, realized they had an emergency what would happen in my cockpit would be id say aven...

>> absolutely. because what you now have is a direct contradiction in terms of all of the theories. they cant all be right. but if the preprogrammed 12 minutes earlier fact is right, then the mechanical turn around theory cannot be right as well because that preprogram -- and what i now believe is that that preprogram may not have actually happened when it was done in the flight management computer but may have been when the plane next reported in at 1:07 because when you report in, automaticall...

Les? >> to me its one of the more plausible scenarios. im not sold on that scenario. but up until the point we got this information which im still skeptical about the 12 minutes prior, it seemed to me that having a smoke situation, getting beyond that verbal communication with air traffic control, it seems to me that if the crew was trying to handle an emergency, realized they had an emergency what would happen in my cockpit would be id say ive got the airplane. and then the co-pilot would begin...

Flight management computer would be part of my control. and i would have put in that waypoint and go to the co-pilot and verify that he liked what i put in. assuming it was an alternate airport because thats what i would be thinking and he would say, looks good, and i would execute that and start the airplane turning and help him to continue the check lilist. >> i want to show you all of the possible airports. there are obviously runways and alternates the plane could have been aiming for. if th...

Might have been practiced here. we have faa inspector mr. david suocie and jay laboeuf in the new day studio. have been pract. we have faa inspector mr. david suocie and jay laboeuf in the new day studio. >> we are cruising along. >> what are you flying now? >> we have the cockpit up, a 777, all the flight information, air speed, horizon, altitude, and we have here the center console, carrying the flight management computer and this is where the pilots would enter all of the waypoints for the tr...

>> any information would help. last thing thats important to do here, the big disclosure from officials in malaysia, not necessarily new information but new information they figured sought that 12 minutes before the co-pilot said "all right, good night" they inputted data for this additional waypoint. is that something that would be done and not communicated ordinarily, jay? >> well, typically, the flight management computer would be loaded with the complete trip from start to finish. and so for...

The original turn-back was towards the closest available airport, so that makes sense. so the initial part actually makes sense, some sort of catastrophic problem. >> when you say catastrophic, you dont mean instantaneous, you mean mechanical issues on board that the pilot had time to try to make that turn to try to find the closest airport. >> sure. yeah, some sort of progressive problem like smoke in the cockpit if you had an electrical fire in the avionics bay or something like that, he would...