Page 123 - Flight Path News Today

Into the flight management computer. that has happened before where you have two fixes that may be discriminated by one or two letters, and you mistype it. that could cause a plane to turn if youre not, if you made a mistake, and the other thing -- jenna: is that something that just can happen just as easy as were in a car and we make a wrong turn? is it just as easy to do something like that? >> it can happen, but you normally see it in the displays. you normally see your flight path as its bei...

Breaking news, "the new york times" now reporting that it was flight 370s computer that sent that plane off its flight path on the way to beijing. i want to bring in jon, our aerospace boeing reporter for "the wall street journal." so this seems to buttress some of your reporting from friday, right, jon? >> both duplicate and buttress. we addressed this last friday specifically when we talked about the manual change that was made to the aircraft. of course theres a lot of us chasing this story a...

Route patrolling the indian ocean. australians are focusing their search on this area, the possible flight path they got based on the final perform pings to the satellite the u.s. navy is deploying a p-8 poe side dan and is submarine hunting plane that can cover 10,000 you miles in one nine-hour flight. if the plane is in the water, another set of challenges. search specialist mccallum says if the flight is found off the bay of bengal, searchers will have to go very deep to find it. >> its betwe...

This from los angeles. what do we think we know this morning? >> this is another clue. a bread crumb if you will that tells us when and where this plane was head. here is the planes original extra joke trip. the planes onboard computer acars told the ground whoever changed the flight path did so by typing 8 or 7 key strokes into the computer rather than turning the plane manually. more evidence that the pilot who did this did so deliberately. flight 370 took off at 12-41 a.m. 1:19, the copilot s...

Somebody actually believes that they have gone through this elaborate set of maneuvers so that we can -- whoever it is can land this jet in pakistan and use it as a weapon later. pakistan. well hear about that and talk through that in a moment. well also show you how the united states navy is using one of its most advanced airplanes to track that missing jet or try to find it at least. and in the light of all the recent developments and what weve learned about how this jet turned, we want to kno...

>> theres some speculation there, youre wright. the skies are crowded. there was only one of the reasons we have a problem here that we havent got a better direction in this area that is 3 million miles is because there was only one satellite at that point, we didnt triangulate, but this is a plane that was well outside the flight path, that wasnt matching any other of the transponders, if you will, and they isolated this plane basically in the middle of the indian ocean. thats the best theyve g...

This magenta line. there is the airplane. here is my flight plan. what im going to do is enter a w waypoint im already familiar with. wmpa. a couple of key strokes. i enter it into the flight plan. it asks me if im sure i want to do that. yes, i do. the airplane is automatically deviated. you can see we are turning to the left here. it is just a simple few key strokes and the airplane deviates from its flight path. >> the turn is not overly dramatic. so if you are a passenger in the back, it doe...

Car. in this case it was programmed to go from kuala lumpur to beijing with waypoints within it. as mitchell can show us, its easy to alter the flight. how would a turn be put? ? >> very simple. this shows our flight path. this is us. all you have to do to change course, a couple of key strokes. if you know where you want to go, the waypoint, its a matter of punching into the scratch pad here, the area below here. we put it in the flight plan. we execute that flight plan. now you can see outside...

Will, based on the acar system, the maintenance system, going dark, and then the transponder going dark as well, eric. >> hey, katherine, its andrea tantaros. who played the message that they received, that the data was changed through acars? do we know it came from a dispatcher, where did we get the information everybody is talking about today? >> the acar system for a layperson, this is a maintenance system onboard most of the boeing flights. it offered an upgraded system, but the basic system...

Over to vietnam controllers. someone in the cockpit turns off the transponders and the plane turns around. at 2:15 a.m., the last military radar contact of the all thats left are six pings being transmitted along two very long arcs to the north and south, the last one at 8:11 a.m. >> tom costello joins me along with michael gold farb here with me. that time line only confirms there was so much we dont know and those two arcs indicate the broad area, not flight path. so the amount of territory th...