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On the screen. all these triangles are waypoints. im going to type this in here. uvuno. okay. then i just put it into where the waypoint i should be going to is. it asked me to confirm the coordinates. i do that. i execute with the execute button here. you can see now the airplane is taking this course off my regular path. >> so just a series of eight or nine key strokes that will send this plane on a complete areally different course. it can do it in the way the passengers arent necessarily goi...

Search. the u.s. is scaling back its role as other countries help malaysia criticized continuously for response and information its handing out. on top of that, more reporting from the new york times seems to confirm the hard turn the plane made toward the west was deliberate. heres a little more. >> new this morning, growing suspicion around flight 370s pilots. the new york times citing unnamed senior officials saying someone likely programmed the computer from the cockpit. this person possibly...

Not just the airplane but electronics in general. youd almost have to be electronics engineer to disable acars. you could reduce functions, simplify functions, get it back to raw data. you couldnt completely shut it down unless you had -- almost to the point of knowing how its designed. >> thats why investigators dont know whether somebody had the sophistication and disabled it or something else was going on in the plane that took out the system. fair assumption? >> yes, thats a fair assumption....

Again -- sorry -- go ahead. >> its in terms of keeping this, what we believe the sequence of events were. transponder is off. one line of communication is gone. thats why the tower isnt hearing anything. they make the adjustment, recorded by the acars system. it later goes off for some reason. does that give you insight as to whether they were dealing with a situation or did this intentionally? does this help or no? >> does the course change indicate they did it intentionally? >> that they were ...

I dont know who, why, what the result was. >> its an important thing to end on to tell you i read your account of this. you said prior to this event 14 years ago, you were a pilot. your chief job was getting the plane safely to its destination, delivering cargo. you hadnt given much thought to the human cargo on board. that day changed it forever for you did it not? >> i dont remember saying that, but yes, of course it did. as we were plunging earth wards, i felt the enormous responsibility of 4...

Where we took off to beijing. its preset, every waypoint, every turn, everything is in here. yesterday we talked about the possibility somebody could put in an alternate route and quickly access and change the trajectory of the airplane. right mitchell? >> thats absolutely correct. weve programmed the route. we passed the point b. this is the place they last made contact. were still on our course to beijing. were going to show how easy it is to deviate from that hah course. these are points long...

Believe it. this is data that came from the acars system that adjusts the sequence of events investigators have been laying out. telli tell us about it. >> thats correct. acars can be set up different ways. it can radio back to the ground the current flight. if you set it up differently, it will radio back to the ground the next leg or leg after that is going to be. at some point it radioed back or satellited back this change in course, this very sharp left turn. there are a lot of ways to chang...

Sometimes the facts are slippery. were having trouble putting into context. >> that is -- you know, a simple reality that you dont need to plot a course to ditch a plane. it sounds obvious. its important to note. >> right. >> did you get from your sources because its all the same facts here. the acars system -- what your reporting does is establishing the acars system must have been functioning when the key strokes were put in. obviously we wouldnt know about them otherwise. anything there your ...

Welcome back to "new day" everyone. im joining -- kate of course. the search grid has been expanded once again. now covering almost two and a quarter million square nautical miles. malaysia is getting more help from other countries after being criticized for response. also this morning a new york times report out all but concludes the decision to turn the plane off original course, route, came within the cockpit where the change was entered manuelly into the planes computer. now to a "new day" e...

Spotting the plane. well tell you what it means for the search. live in malaysia, now the area is the size of the continental u.s. the flights course was changed in the computer. we talked to a neighbor who knows the co-pilot. breaking this morning, vladimir putin telling his parliament crimea has always been a part of russi russia. hes also targeting u.s. senators with sanctions. good morning. welcome to "new day." im chris cuomo in new york. plenty of developments in the malaysian jet myst...