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Wasnt human intervention it. >> barbara, i want to ask you a question which david gallow put to us a few moments ago and its an excellent question about it, and we talked to andy pasztor about it. but officials you were talking to believe the plane ended up in the ocean. how can they believe that if we were led to believe this plane went for some five hours, how are they saying it ended up in the water? are they saying that definitively? what leads them to that conclusion? >> let me start with, ...

We dont have any information of the cell phone triangulation or one ping that could mean that the cell phone were confiscate ed or smashed, but right now, there not one bit of evidence from the malaysian government that any cell phone was pinged yet. >> and a reminder to the viewers that we look at the map that is behind me, and similar to the one to your left, if you are out over the indian ocean, there is no cell towers over there, and it would be difficult even if you could get a signal over ...

Most likely as a result of, quote, deliberate actions by someone on the plane. malaysian authorities searched the pilots home in kuala lumpur this morning as the investigation refolks on the 239 passengers and crew on board that missing jet. malaysian prime minister says the massive multinational search effort is also shifting from the south china tea sae to two possible corridors. one extend as far north as kazakhstan, the other as far south as the southern part of the indian ocean. with the ne...

Evidence of what we have it looks like somebody deliberately turned the aircraft off the intended flight path. >> way off the flight path. leah, let me go to you. im very impressed, fighter pilot, and all the work the military has done. there is a series of reports, "the wall street journal," reuters, says it went off course and flew for another four or five hours. there are safety mechanisms within the triple 7 where mechanical data is being sent back all the time through satellite imagery? >> ...

Evidence of what we have it looks like somebody deliberately turned the aircraft off the intended flight path. >> way off the flight path. leah, let me go to you. im very impressed, fighter pilot, and all the work the military has done. there is a series of reports, "the wall street journal," reuters, says it went off course and flew for another four or five hours. there are safety mechanisms within the triple 7 where mechanical data is being sent back all the time through satellite imagery? >> ...

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...

Quickly. its highly unlikely that a plane would turn in such a dramatic difference from the intended flight path and continue on a route thats very, very different than the intended one. >> theres some talk about altitude data being fed through these sort of automated update systems. that altitude data seems to fluctuate wildly and has been discounted by some of the folks in the reporting ive read. one of the data points is that the plane at one point climbed to an altitude of 45,000 feet which ...

Going to be a political effort as well now for the malaysian government. they have to get the governments, all these countries on board. they have to share data. they have to look at the passengers as well. here in malaysia, i can tell you that soon after the announcement from the prime minister that it looks like there was a very, very strong body of evidence to suggest that the plane was deliberately turned away from its flight path by someone on board. the two pilots here, both of the homes o...

How can they believe that if we are led to believe this plane went for some five hours? how are they saying it ended up in the water? definitively? what lead them to that conclusion? >> reporter: no. i mean, let me start with this. nothing is detfinitive in this story other than the plane is missing. they have made some calculations based on this technical data. and what they believe the flight path would have been if they could have calculated it based on the radar returns, the so-called blips ...

However, is this erratic flight path. it did fly in multiple directions. the question of the radar is still out there, but it begins to narrow the search and give them more of an idea where to look. >> i want to bring in michael schmidt, one of the reporters who wrote this story about the change in direction and the different altitudes. michael, do these erratic altitude changes give credence to a specific theory what may have happened to the flight? and can you explain more about what you know ...