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Based on acars because they say this. acars does not translate anything having to do with gps. acars only gives specific information and thats information about the health of the plane. these pilots that i spoke to who are very familiar with the 777 say they dont know any way in which that particular system could let anyone know whether someone preprogrammed that turn into the original flight path or the itinerary, so to speak. whether they are basing it on acars, whether they are basing it on d...

Officials believe it was no accident when the jet steered far off course. they have new information. "the new york times" is saying the changed flight path was programmed into an on-board computer. the person who did it was likely familiar with the airline systems. that puts the focus on the pilot and the first officer. as well as anyone else on the plane who may have a background in aviation. its still unclear if the jetliners computerized route was altered before or after takeoff. meanwhile, m...

If its near the flight path its possible. we have a few data points. >> jeff beatty i would say they are hijacked and if they are on board the family would have come to meet with the rest of the family -- the pilots family. there were reports that the pilots family moved out of the home. but they would have gone to meet with them already. does that even weigh on this investigation? >> i dont think so. if this was an elaborate hijacking operation i think there is an opportunity to put forward a m...

Re-established. we spoke to air traffic control telling them where we were, what the problem had been, and we were going to resume our flight path. we probably didnt speak to air traffic control. we spoke on the pilots emergency frequency. it works much better than air traffic control. >> its amazing the story youve just told us. its a gripping and heroing tale. given the experience and what you know and all vast things we dont know about this missing flight. whats your gut tell you about what m...

Then you change the flight deck. when you hear these reports that someone in the cockpit changed the flight path for whatever reason, what goes through your mind? what was your thought when you heard that? >> well, i expected that. >> tell us why. >> because if -- theres an echo. because -- and so im a -- there was an echo. because the fact that the airplane changed its flight path indicates that somebody reprogrammed the flight management system. thats how it is done. thats the standard. theres...

Wives, children from 15 different countries who have been riding an elevator of dread and hope since we all learned the basics on march 8th. flight 370 disappeared 40 minutes into a flight to beijing. ten days later, those are still the only concrete, confirmable facts upon which the world can agree. search areas are supposed to get smaller over time. this one has only gotten bigger. investigations are supposed to eliminate possibilities over time. in this case, each new day brings new conflicti...

The global media and from their own people and the victims families at the two airports in beijing and cue all la kuala lumpur. so theyve gone to each extreme. if they dont put it out, they are not forthcoming and if they put it out, they are inaccurate. thats a struggle theyve faced since the beginning. >> this new information that they preprogrammed the flight path once the flight took off presumably from inside the cockpit, what does that say? >> well, it locks in the theory that whatever hap...

Plus, a news chopper down in flames, and people are dead. its a very busy news day. so lets get to it. >> announcer: now, "shepard smith reporting," live from the fox news desk. good tuesday to you and yours. first from the deck this afternoon, analysts say it could be the biggest clue yet about why that missing jumbo jet flew off course. according to the reporting of the "new york times" newspaper it wasnt off course at all. thats the course they programmed. somebody preprogrammed this new ro...

Part. he was, you know, bright, intelligent, inquisitive. you know, forward thinking. he was a real -- very positive. in everything he did, he was so positive and just infect shouse laugh. great guy. >> theres no way to get to the bottom of this, you were two upstanding citizens as described by friends and relatives and pilot and co-pilot and malaysian authorities say somebody counter manded and reprogrammed that flight path. >> reporter: thats right, andrea, the mystery deepens every day here r...

Its not as easy as it sounds. >> these are weigh stations. you plug them in, the plane turns to the appropriate heading and flies to the way station. and if you put in the wrong way station, which happens sometimes, the plane will go back and get the way station. so its pretty simple but youve got to do it and youve got to do it right. >> pamela, youre an experienced pilot. tell us about the time that you would change the automatic flight path inside the cockpit once youre flying. what would gen...