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>> the pilot could have loaded a flight plan into the stand-by system and soo when the airplane took off and was on its way to beijing, they could have pulled up this alternate flight plan, made it the active flight plan for one of two reasons. either to come back because of an emergency or to take the airplane on a route well away from beijing. >> locating this plane would add a lot more clues, but investigators are still struggling with an absolutely huge search area. ann an area that was once...

On to the co pilot. we are hearing that when the 27-year-old co pilot radioed his final good night communication to air traffic control, the plane had already been diverted from its flight path, but there was no mention of that by the co pilot tom anyone on the grounds. joining me now, peter king, chairman of the counter terrorism subcommittee on the house homeland committee. you have been saying look at the pilots from the beginning. why were you zeroed in on them? >> most people i spoke to in ...

Investigation became a criminal case. investigators reassembled that simulator focusing on evidence that points to premeditation. this morning once the commotion died down authorities told reporters about this new evidence. >> some files have been deleted from the simulator. i would like to say that the passengers, the pilots and crew remain innocent until proven otherwise. >> reporter: investigative source also tells fox news they are trying to answer a series of questions as one example did th...

They could have been putting in alternate route to an airport that they would need in case of an in which. and these kinds of cases, as weve heard in the past, there are many things going on in an aircraft we may not understand. heres cnn aviation analyst mary schiavo. >> ive worked on many cases where the pilots were suspect, and it turned out to be mechanical and a horrible, horrible problem. i have a saying myself, sometimes it an erratic flight path is heroism, not terrorism. and i always re...

Back now to the breaking news involving the missing malaysia airlines jet, we have been telling you the flight path had already changed. before a person believed to be the co pilot said good night to air traffic control. were continuing to investigate the possibility of a mechanical failure on board this aircraft. take a look at this, this is a boeing 777 that caught fire on the ground at the gate a couple years ago, it would have been far more catastrophic if it had happened in the air. >> ther...

The reason why route number one is not thought to have been the case by all experts you talk to because of all the countries you see situated over the flight path, right? granted, it is of the middle of night here but they believe someone at some airport along the route would have picked up a signal from the plane. mike mccaul says the airbase in bagram, afghanistan, certainly would have picked this up. now the theory takes you down into the southern indian ocean off the coast of australia. this...

Pressure to find out what happened to flight 370. the planes black box will only emit a signal for roughly 19 more days. time is running out. joining me now is a retired american airlines captain and a former u.s. naval aviator and an nbc law enforcement analyst. thank you both for coming on the show tonight. >> my pleasure, thank you. >> jim, people delete files all the time. what are your questions about the simulator if you are leading up this investigation? >> you want to know if the flight ...

Asleep fishing, when two of the fishermen were approaching the south china sea where they say they saw a low-flying aircraft, so low they saw the lights that looked like the size of coconuts. they said we turned to one another in complete shock. and we said, what on weather is going on, one said, is the pilot crazy, whats happening here. so i spent the morning out at sea with them. we went not the boat, they talked me through exactly what they saw. they went back, they told their colleagues and ...

>> most likely yes, unless there was another in between waypoint which i have not heard of. most likely as soon as he hit that way pointpoint its starting to make that nice slow curve to the west. these are not dramatic turns. >> is it your information that the plane had turned west and was heading west instead of northeast than it was supposed to, was that different from the report that had been generated 30 minutes earlier at 12:47 a.m.? >> we dont know what the flight plan was other than it w...

Bill: 9:31 in new york. if you were watching megyn last night, scott brenner is a former spokesperson from the faa he dropped a bombshell. first brenner. watch. >> according to federal officials involved in this investigation, theyre telling me at least within the first 26 minutes of that flight the pilots were already changing the flight path. so what we originally thought was the plane had gone up, basically flying on its original course to bejing and signing off with air traffic control and m...