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In those same few days, more clues. two different objects, pieces of debris seen floating in the gulf of thailand and initially offering, again, some hope, maybe they came from the plane. one object looked like it could potentially be a life raft. no, that turned out to be the lid of a large box. the other object which some people at one point thought looked like a very specifically identifiable part of a plane actually turned out to be a bunch of logs tied together. they thought it was maybe th...

Officials involved in the investigation, they say in the first 26 minutes of the flight the pilots were already changing the flight path. so what we originally thought the plane had gone up, flying the original course to beijing then signing off with air traffic control and then making the westerly turn, we now know within the first 26 minutes they had re-programmed the flight plan and were already starting to turn west far before they even signed off with air traffic control. >> so the pilots h...

Washington. >> reporter: the u.s.s most sophisticated sub hunter, the p-8, has joined the search for malaysian flight 370 as more evidence is revealed this disappearance was a deliberate act and who was at the controls apparently knew what was doing. abc news learned early in the flight that took off at 12:41 for beijing, three specific actions happened in the cockpit. a hard turn off the flight path was preprogrammed into the jets computer. the data transmission system was turned off, some time...

To the missing plane. in those same few days, more clues. two different objects, pieces of debris seen floating in the gulf of thailand and initially offering, again, some hope, maybe they came from the plane. one object looked like it could potentially be a life raft. no, that turned out to be the lid of a large box. the other object which some people at one point thought looked like a very specifically identifiable part of a plane actually turned out to be a bunch of logs tied together. they t...

Its last transmission. it was, apparently, disabled sometime within the next half hour after that transmission. a maneuver that may have required someone to climb through a trap door right by the planes left hand front exit in full view of the cabin crew to switch the circuit breakers. at 1:19 a.m., the plane signed off from malaysian air traffic control. >> the last voice message from the aircraft was from the co-pilot who said, all right, good night. >> at 1:21 a.m. just as mh-370 was meant to...

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Whatever something like that happens, the facts are difficult to know in realtime. and such, but i think the problem is up until saturday we didnt hear a lot from them. and now that were hearing from them theyre going back on different things. so i dont think that gives people a lot of >> you broke news late last week about the flight path. and this information now opens the door to more consideration of a catastrophic failure, and if the systems went down at once, were not saying they did, they...

Its up to 37,000 feet, and right here is where weirdness starts. it makes this u-turn and heads back. comes in this direction, and theres a tiny island here somewhere. its so small that when we zoom in on goingle, its doesnt page it up. but its a tiny island and on this island they have a military radar station. the last time they saw the flight was right in the middle of that. how high was the plane? they havent told us. at what altitude, what speed, we have no information except to say they ca...

All we really know for sure is nothing like this has ever happened. joining me now, michael goldfarb, former chief of staff for the federal aviation administration. >> good evening, chris. >> good evening. there are so many conflicting reports pinging around, i thought maybe we would sort of start at the most basic and build out what we actually hard confirmed beyond a shadow of a doubt know. can we do that? >> maybe. its a complete and utter mess. there is no investigation. if there was, it sta...

Indonesians, that led me to believe there was something else going on that was not intended as far as conducting this flight. >> greg, the point is that there is evidence that somebody in the crew is turning off its communications, turning off the radar, and all of a sudden you see it re-emerge on a different flight path after a turn. that says to you somebody has made a deliberate decision to commandeer this aircraft and go in a different direction? >> absolutely. there would never be a reason ...