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Mismanagement of the controls and therefore an accident. >> alan passing along some information that we will of course need to confirm through our sources here at cnn. but suggesting that this is not a mechanic. and that is really important. that is why i stopped you there in your tracks. because again this is a person, you know, mechanic would typically have that run and taxi qualification. so if that is not the indicate -- >> that means this person somehow knew how to takeoff the runway and ta...

Not the subject today, but look what he did? go ahead and get her missing emails, go ahead and get hillarys missing emails, he told wiwikileaks, go ahead and publish it. so were seeing that form of collusion and what americans have to do to protect ourselveses and all of us who are new to social media, need to watch the sources that we are listening to on social media. >> among the bags that we just saw loaded on to the plane, the proof is that the president is for all of the marbles, the transf...

>> sure. a lot of people developing drones these days. theres an explosion in drone technology around the world. in the intelligence business they are ideal to dwell over a target like what the russians are doing. if the russians are looking for example at an isis facility theres no better way to get intelligence from the air than to sit over that target with the drone. my question here there are other countries that could do this, israel for example, iran, but the russians have an interest in f...

Malaysia airlines flight 370 before it vanished almost a year ago despite an extraordinary international effort. the search for mh370 has come up empty. tom foreman takes a look back at the planes final moments. >> reporter: the mystery of flight 370 has unfolded in five terrible acts here. in the first one, it was completely unremarkable. the plane took off from coolkuala kuala lumpur supposed to be a routine flight to china where it would land around dawn. the second act occurred about 45 minu...

Get them to the right place and have the analyst analyze what the data is. and then, finally, to the general public. that information is very, very critical. and i, as long as those boxes are working right, were going to get a lot of answers. and i think there may be some real surprising es in there. >> i wonder, i see here early in fwro your flying career, you have an incident with some severe weather. i wonder if thinking back on that incident like this, what did you learn from going flu e thr...

Cockpit doors that would act variety it if a certain amount of force were used against the doors. >> the satellite would steer it to a determined airport. it would be flown almost like a drone. if a member of the crew purposely did something to alter the aircraft. >> if they tried to get in touch of the pilot and they couldnt then if that system were in place it seems as though the ground controller could then have landed this aircraft. >> right now auto pilot systems are switched on or off at t...

If malaysian flight 370 was hijacked or if a member of the crew purposely did something to alter the path, could that have saved the plane? >> if they determined it was a problem and they tried to get in touch with the pilot and the co-pilot and they couldnt, then if that system were in place, it seems as though the ground controller could then have handed this aircraft. >> right now auto pilot systems are manually switched on and off only at the discretion of the pilots in the air. and auto pil...

Diplomatic solution. that is a live picture from there. we are learning new details that could prevent the same fate as flight 370. it involves flying a passenger jet from the ground. >> reporter: on the ground a feeling of complete helplessness. but an idea has surfaced to put auto pie light ilot in remote c. > ground controller could take control away from the pie lalot that they wouldnt have control and this would be handled by the ground. everything now that the pilots would do would be in c...

Controller could have landed the aircraft. >> reporter: right now, auto pilot systems are manually switched on and off at the discretion of the pilots in the air. auto pilot cannot land or takeoff. this potential solution could present a new problem. >> this is not necessarily hack proof. >> not hack proof. terrorists may be able to get into the data stream and force the plane to land or do whatever. >> reporter: has boeing advanced the idea from ten years ago? is the company still testing it ou...

Hijacked or if a member of the crew purposely did something to alter the path, would this have saved that plane? >> if in fact they determined that it was a problem, and they tried to get in touch with the pilot and the co-pilot, and they couldnt, then if that system were 34 place, it seems as though, the ground controller could then have landed this aircraft. >> reporter: right now, autopilot systems are manually switches on and off only at the discretion of pilots in the are air. an autopilot ...