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7 hours after turning back from its flight path. the plane headed west. investigators are trying to trace the plane across two possible new flight routes, a northern accorder and a southern corridor which heads out over the indian ocean. there are reports that the jet experienced sharp changes in altitude after it lost contact with air traffic control, first up to 45,000 feet and then up and down unevely to 23,000 feet. then it also changed course more than once which would mean that was under t...

Is something the pilots can do manually. and they do it whenever they land. also it is very telling to me, if you remember back with the stewart crash that was a decompression issue. that was a case where they actually flew jets up and saw that the people inside had died. if that happened, number one it wouldnt be off course, and number two you wouldnt have the descending altitudes at 45,000, and 32,000 feet. it tells me somebody was flying the plane, and it means possibly human air piracy. >> t...

Indication that it was a deliberate act. had these two systems stopped simultaneously, thats something that weve seen before. it could be an inflight break-up or in the case of twa flight 800 when a malfunction led to the plane exploding midair, all of the signals were lost at once. so theyre sus spipicious about that. more on what we know about the missing planes flight path. there was question about whether it was truly flight 370 that made that turn west, military radar picked it up. and toda...

Miniter, we talked with our own shep smith, more information on the plane that was not only descending, that it went off course and flew four to five su looks more and more like air piracy. >> it could well n the strongest evidence is the wild gyrations of the flight. looks like the flight path for the last minutes of united flight 93 which crashed in pennsylvania on 9-11. they kept rocking the plane back and forth. in the last minutes of this flight that disappeared there may well have been a f...

Points are being taken very seriously. first, that the plane did, indeed, go westward, contrary to its prescribed flight path, and that it continued to send out those pings possibly for hours after making that westward turn. joining me now is captain sean cassidy, first vice president and national safety coordinator of the airline pilots association international. mr. cassidcassidy, what is your reaction to what seems to be now a bevy of different reports from different outlets confirming those ...

On the missing plane to the. this time on what could be the two most important people in this mystery. the pilot and co-pilot now a major focus for investigators. trace gallagher has more in the west coast news room, trace? >> and megyn, the more we learn about the flight path and variations in altitude and shutdown of communications the more investigators are focusing on the possibility that a trained pilot may very well have still been in control of this aircraft. so lets begin with the captai...

Disappeared in after from can a a few years back joseph padilla we never found that 727. >> that was one of the more bizarre cases he was shuttling diesel fuel to diamond minds. he had lots of debt. the plane just kind of took off out in the middle of the night and no one ever saw it again. but it wasnt a passenger airline. they had a flight plan and they didnt actually get clearance from the airport. so its very different than this case. >> and so this is -- are there any other huge passenger p...

Investigators expect to get more satellite and radar data over the weekend. "its gotten better and better every day. it should provide more clarity to the flight path. its not a given, but its a hope." joining us now is jim tillmon, former pilot for the u.s. military who spent 28 ye9 yearsa pilot. he is now based in chicago. mr. tillmon, thanks for being here. >> thank you, ari. >> lets start with what weve been discussing. if the plane, did, in fact, alter its course more than once, what does t...

But then you consider that there would be radar all over all of these countries. and you see where it ends, in a pretty dangerous neighborhood. is there one that you give more credence than the other? >> hi, victor. i have to admit personally i dont give much credence to any of this the way things have gone the last couple of days. had that plane going in so many different directions, up, down, and sideways. and were relying on technical experts to tell us what theyre interpreting from the satel...

The missing airlines communications were deliberately disabled and it veered off of course by the actions of someone on board. >> these movements are consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane. in view of this latest development, the malaysian authorities have refocused their investigation into the crew and passengers on board. despite media reports that the plane was hijacked, i wish to be very clear. we are still investigating all possibilities as to what caused mh 370 to deviat...