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On board deliberately nose-dived the graph. >> there would be all kinds of indications. they would be able to determine which engine turned off first, if it was because of fuel starvation, they would know that versus if it was intentionally cut off. >> this line represents the planes altitude. if flight mh-370 suddenly dropped to a lower flight, here is where we would see a change. if someone on board deliberately altered the flight path, with he would see this start to dip or rise depending on ...

Beijing. the one thing that has changed is the flight number. its now flight 318. we wanted to see exactly what the flight looked like on that night. so we tracked it using a popular web site called flightradar24.com. the data youre seeing right now, this little yellow plane was taken just after 1:00 in the morning today at malaysia at the same moment that flight 370 vanished. as you can see, there are only a few dozen other flights in the region. we have flight 370 in red as you can see. youd t...

The 14 planes get back up in the area, weather conditions were fair today. as you know, the weather is highly unpredictable. just in the last hour, the winds have picked up. its gotten significantly cooler and weve had rain on and off. what the weather will hold for crews in the coming days is very difficult to predict. but we do know for sure there are now more assets than ever searching for anything they can about the disappearance for flight 370. >> lets talk more about this. richard quest, h...

Change. if someone on board altered the flight path, we will see this line start to dip or rise, depending on the direction. >> i think one of the important things that people will be looking at is who was in control of the aircraft? when we look at the data, you can see if they were coming from the auto pilot or the left or right seat. the pilot or the copilot. >> they can also use latitude or longitude to pinpoint where the plane was located at any point during flights. although the memory chi...

So, too, is the search. >> reporter: the malaysian prime minister saying that we will not give up, we will do everything we can to try and find the debris, to at least alleviate the grief and the suffering of the family members of the 239 people who were on board. christine? >> you know, matthew, 27 days now since this flight disappeared. there are two facts, two real facts here. one, the plane did not land where it was supposed to. two, inmarsat data show that it turned to the south and flew so...

Plane went down earlier in its flight path than what the data originally showed. but, again, we have to be cautious here because weve had a lot of promising leads over the weeks as we followed this story, wolf, that turned out to be nothing. but to hear theres a specific search happening tomorrow, its certainly an interesting development that were definitely going to stay on top of. >> and there will be in a few hours a major announcement of what theyre calling a big development. we dont know wh...

Assumptions. for example, one of the assumptions is the radar information that picked up an airplane flying west was even this plane. as far as the search goes, it has moved further east today. were putting it on the map. ten planes and nine ships searching. area they were searching today is this area in yellow. its west-northwest of perth. the areas in gray have already been searched. the coordinating agency has been refining the search area, based on continuing analysis of satellite communicat...

About you it hit tail first. it did break into pieces. >> thats the air france flight. >> im sorry, yes,s air france flight. the only opportunity i can see the probability of it going in as one piece as the questioner is alluding to is if he made a flight on the potomac type landing. >> thats improbable in that area simply because of the rough seas. i think that would be difficult for that to have happened. >> even on the plane that crashed in the hudson, he had full control of it at all times. ...

Short break now but just ahead, it has been one of the big questions in the search for malaysia airlines flight 370. what was the exact flight path of the plane? >> claims of a revised flight path are raising new questions about the entire investigation. and later amid u.s. and south korea military drills, pressure builds on the korean peninsula. how the north is reacting. back in a moment. if you can clear a table without lifting a finger... you may be muddling through allergies. try zyrtec®...

That. how much credibility do the families have when you look at the map you reported on that this could be an accurate flight path? >> the families are desperate. theyre reaching to any measure to get the attention that they want to be able to ask the questions that they want to put that map as the a potential scenario that theyve taken that theyve found and taken and want to put in front of officials because they feel it needs to be addressed. its a question in their mind. its a desperate act....