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Diana perez. we begin with the 12th day of the ongoing search for malaysia airlines flight 370. >> frustration is rising hand in hand with confusion as once again malaysian officials change their version of several key details about the flight. our coverage begins now with abcs david kerley. >> reporter: the mystery of flight 370 came no closer to being solved when again the malaysian government -- >> i would like to say -- >> reporter: -- changed the story. so few facts have produced so many th...

Foul play seem more significant. because by doing that, what it basically shows is that this thing was already headed in a different direction when they are saying good night and that just really kind of reinforces the whole notion that someone was trying to take it in a different place and take it down. but it still doesnt make sense that if this was a suicide mission, if this was a person who was just trying to take down the plane, why they didnt just put it in the ocean and why they took it i...

Airlines took? plane goes missing and you wait four and a half hours before you alert people theres a plane missing? >> theres a moment of absolute disbelief. this cant be happening. there must be some mistake. and then it went on for four and a half hours. >> they would call the cockpit and they get no answer and so, they must be freaking out. >> they are. but theyre trying every other option other than the dreaded, weve had an accident, or the plane is gone. they waited too long. theres no que...

If we cant find a lot about the act if we go back and look for rehearsal indicators, like what may have been on his flight simulator or like other trips here the co-pilot may have taken into the region and into possible places where they may have taken this airplane, we may get additional clues that will help focus the investigation. i know we are all focused on the arc and tom can probably help us on this. there iss a lot of places in the world that are within the range of a 777 flying out of k...

A pretty line. this is saddam had wmd, he used wmd against his own citizens. >> he did. >> and therefore -- yes, he did. we take that into a straight line and say, it must be because hes spending so much capital avoiding the u.n. that he still has it. we dont know what happened here. were coming up with stories to explain p. >> what do you think? >> you know, sean, the assumption in that analysis is that theres a lead country and someone whos looking at the facts and getting rid of certain items...

Its there as opposed to there? >> it pretty much comes down to that. if you think that they have the same chance, then you have no chance of finding it any time soon. these statistical tools are not magic but may help make it more efficient and more smarter. >> you would start on, what, the presumed flight path, the last turn, something like that? >> anything you have. information from the satellite. the key things about these tools is youre always questioning your assumptions and incorporating ...

Were no problems with the flight. a timeline that would seem to strongly suggest foul play by the co-pilot and anyone else active in the cockpit at the time. but, crucial caveat, former national transportation safety board investigator greg feith told nbc news this new information does not necessarily by itself indicate ill intentions. according to feith, "some pilots will program into an alternate flight path in the event of emergency. we dont know what the reason was for this particular flight...

>> reporter: they basically were night fishing a group -- they suddenly caught a low flying aircraft. i asked him if this was unusual because they usually go out fishing under this flight path and regularly see aircraft. no im very clear on that. a lot of planes fly very high up in the sky, we can hear them but dont see them this low. ive never seen an aircraft fly this low before. i asked him what did you see. he said well it was flying from malaysia over towards vietnam over the south china se...

To a patch about this size. we talked yesterday about 3 million square miles. here, a much smaller portion. 230,000 square miles. still big, about the size of france, but much smaller than the continental united states. how did they get to this point? combination of flight path, assuming that plane continued that last track that we saw. as well as the amount of feel it had before it would have run out assuming it continued that path. plus, theres a factor here of current. and over time and the 1...

Vanished without a trace effectively with 239 people on board, it has now become the longest disappearance in the modern history of commercial aviation. incredibly, almost nothing has been ruled out. but officials seem more and more convinced as time goes by that that plane flew deep into the indian ocean. as opposed to northward over what is effectively very heavily monitored air space. in fact, australia says that it is, quote, significantly refi refining its search area, and that based on the...