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Dont believe in coincidences. two or three minutes after they say good night the plane goes in a mysterious direction. >> to miles point, during that transmission do you hear a click of the cabin door opening? do you hear, you know, a slide on the chair? do you hear anything else that might indicate that something else was going on or that somebody else was entering or in the cockpit? >> how surprised would you be, tom, if tomorrow malaysian authorities, australian authorities, new zealand, u.s....

This evening. miles, before i get to the question about nics reporting. geoffry said it was supposed to be the pilots official language. does it sound to you that maybe there was someone less experienced here? >> you know, late at night on a quiet radio frequency, sometimes you forget to read back the radio transmission. so i think -- i dont think we should read too much into it. if we had the transcript and the full context of the last call that might tell us something. >> what do you make of n...

His owned a mission, though, he says hes no expert but he has covered his fair share of plane crashes in his day so he probably knows a little better than the average person on the street but we are going to get that checked, well have it looked at, well have an expert look at it to see if there is anything out of the ordinary and as soon as we have that well bring it to you. right now a three-page transcript all looking very routine. >> and you can be sure over the next hours people are going t...

Type of mechanical or catastrophic event in the cockpit that forced that aircraft off course, to change heading, to apparently want to go to the nearest land at the nearest suitable airport. but there was no distress call. the acars was off. the transponders were off. that still leads me to believe that was human intervention. again, because the waypoints, the points, the flight path for that aircraft was put in and agreed to on the ground and in the flight management system. that was human inte...

Nowhere else to turn. for him, a question, the flight path of the plane in its final hours flying an arc towards the sunrise, possibly because whoever was piloting it wanted to land it on the sea, sink it intact, make its discovery that much harder. nic robertson, cnn, kuala lumpur, malaysia. still to come, tens of thousands of americans try to beat the deadline to sign up for obamacare. >> but the web site ran into technical glitches -- again. the details just ahead. at any minute... ...you c...

Publicly, malaysian officials did say all the radar data is central to their investigation. >> the manner of the air traffic control at the time of the aircraft make an air turn back is one of the very important criteria for the investigators to look at. >> reporter: in a background briefing, malaysian investigators told cnn that they believed flight mh-370, whoever was flying it had a thorough knowledge of the aircraft. and was a criminal act by one of the two pilots or someone else on board. >...

Did say all the radar data is central to their investigation. >> the manner of the air traffic control at the time of the aircraft make an air turn back is one of the very important criteria for the investigators to look at. >> reporter: in a background briefing, malaysian investigators told cnn that they believed flight mh-370, whoever was flying it had a thorough knowledge of the aircraft. and was a criminal act by one of the two pilots or someone else on board. >> nick, why do investigators t...

What we need to see now are the military radar records that would give us an idea of how the plane made its turn, how it veered off of its scheduled flight path, and suddenly ended up on route to the indian ocean, you know, less than 90 minutes after it took off from kuala lumpur. as you reported, nic robertson reported that some of the investigators are saying theyre investigating this as a criminal act. that radar record would really speak to that as well. it might help to differentiate, you k...

France. was this mistake understandable or unconscionable? >> it was a very large scale source. it was very daunting. there was a lot of conflicting information initially. they are a little bit disorganized. they finally find their groove. it is unfortunate that it seems to have happened a little bit late. >> those batteries and black boxes are going to start to die on saturday. there is just not much time. my next question is, the original area was determined on satellite and this one on radar ...

For all the wrong reasons. im michael smerconish. ill see you back here tomorrow night, cnns special report, the mystery of flight 370 with don mystery of flight 370 with don lemon starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> this is a cnn special report, the mystery of flight 370. im don lemon. the "wall street journal" reporting that poor communication led to three days of searching far from where the plane is believed to be. so are searchers in the right place tonight? well chec...