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So at this point there was a report out the malaysian officials acknowledged this morning essentially this pilot may have made a phone call in the cockpit. of course theyre going to look at that because we dont have any answers right now. also the deleted files on the hard drive from the pilot. were finding out from sources who talked with my colleague evan perez some of the files were deleted more recently than originally disclosed by malaysian officials. so forensics experts and outside consul...

Ntsb, faa and others keep the safety part on the table here. theres every reason to believe there was a gradual problem. aviate, navigate, communicate. even though we focus on and fixate on that turn and was the transponder on, was the acars on. the pilots, very seasoned, could have been thinking about an alternate airport because they were beginning to experience anything, smoke in the cabin. probably not those lithium ion batteries. that would have been more catastrophic. but gradually turn of...

Who talked with my colleague evan perez some of the files were deleted more recently than originally disclosed by malaysian officials. so forensics experts and outside consults are working right now to find out what is in those deleted files but how they were deleted. that could be very telling if they were strategically deleted or scrubbed clean in a more sophisticated way than a routine way. on the other hand it could be very innocent, just routine deletions like something we would do on our c...

February 3rd. but sources are saying now that simply they were deleted more recently than originally disclosed. so forensics experts are working to find out not only what is in those deleted files but of course, how they were deleted, if they were strategically deleted or scrubbed clean in a more sophisticated way. >> i have to ask you, why did the malaysians tell us nothing had been deleted since february 3rd? >> we simply dont know. weve been asking our sources that, we dont have an explanatio...

So forensics experts are working to find out not only what is in those deleted files but of course, how they were deleted, if they were strategically deleted or scrubbed clean in a more sophisticated way. >> i have to ask you, why did the malaysians tell us nothing had been deleted since february 3rd? >> we simply dont know. weve been asking our sources that, we dont have an explanation. we dont know what kind of technology they were using. i want to make it clear that sources are saying that at...

Continue to take a strong blp hd with this plane. republican senator saxby chambliss is here tonight. good of you to be here, your thoughts on the progress of the data that we have been told was deleted from the flight simulator. >> well, i actually spoke with them this afternoon. and what i can tell you, megyn, they not only have the simulator box but they also have some other assets that they are reviewing in great detail. they are very focused on this. they refer to it as being laser focused,...

Strong interest in what happened with this plane. republican senator saxby chambliss is here tonight. good of you to be here, your thoughts on the progress of the data that we have been told was deleted from the flight simulator. >> well, i actually spoke with them this afternoon. and what i can tell you, megyn, they not only have the simulator box but they also have some other assets that they are reviewing in great detail. they are very focused on this. they refer to it as being laser focused,...

Forensics david was talking about with the pinging down south. so they have been focusing very, very intently on this area. earlier in the day we saw that the australians focused their search area in a very particular way, which to us was a clue they were zeroing in on where they thought the actual impact was. >> the australian officials are saying this is the best lead so far. they just need confirmation of what they are seeing so far, but this imagery that they are seeing is not precise enough...

Yes, we want to find wreckage. yes, we want to confirm that this is in fact the aircraft, and that we have the area, but now, as david said, we need to do some forensics and do some meteorological and oceanography to figure out where this actually came from. and yes, this is good news. we also need to remember that in the air france mishap, we were on top of that wreckage five days after the mishap. but it took us two years, even though we were right on top of the wreckage to find the black boxe...

Using forensics to retrieve whatever was erased. another piece of this puzzle, cnn learned that the planes computer was likely reprogrammed to change course to take the left turn at least 12 minutes before the last verbal communication with the cockpit when the copilot radio air traffic controller said all right, good night. a senior official said the search has now zoned in on this corridor that you are looking at. >> the search conditions are goo good. as they were flying through. there were n...