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>> i concur. there is nothing out of the ordinary or suspicious with these. >> matt, if there were a fire on board, and the pilots were aware of it, would we expect to see some language about it some place some time in this, if they knew about it? >> if they knew about it, sure. but pilots abide by the -- a rule of thumb. aviate, navigate, communicate. they need to fly the airplane, then they need to communicate with ground and controllers, and then aviate, navigate and communicate with ground c...

>> i concur. there is nothing out of the ordinary or suspicious with these. >> matt, if there were a fire on board, and the pilots were aware of it, would we expect to see some language about it some place some time in this, if they knew about it? >> if they knew about it, sure. but pilots abide by the -- a rule of thumb. aviate, navigate, communicate. they need to fly the airplane, then they need to communicate with ground and controllers, and then aviate, navigate and communicate with ground c...

Plane to make that turn away from beijing, that instruction had already been programmed into the planes computer before the crew in the cockpit made their last voice contact with air traffic controllers when they said good night. that hard left turn, what was almost a u-turn off the planes planned course had already been executed as an instruction to the plane while the pilots were still in contact with the ground controllers. yet the pilots said nothing about it to ground control. the reason th...

Now why is that important? it just so happens to contradict a government assertion made only yesterday. and its important, because if the pilots had said that a normal good night actually happened after the acars was switched off, it could suggest they had a deliberate role whatever happened to that aircraft. in either case, the u.s. official says the jet climbed to 45,000 feet after ground controllers lost contact. and then it dropped to 23,000 feet before climbing yet again. and as i mentioned...

Several times sharply before heading out into the indian ocean. and authorities believe the plane was manually turned after ground controllers lost contact wit, and someone was needed to go below deck on the 777 to disable one key piece of electronics, suggesting sabotage. back with our panel. barbara starr, you are getting information about the human hand perhaps being involved in this disappearance, which seems to corroborate what "the wall street journal" is reporting. >> right, anderson. ive...

Minutes. were at 35,000 feet, on automatic pilot. we, in every way we could, tried to replicate exactly the circumstances and conditions so you could see what it would feel like, weeceven with the night s because it was an overnight flight. this is the point. i asked mitchell if you thought that was an unusual statement and you said, not at all. >> not at all. it is a very standard. as you are signing off from one air traffic control center to the next, you say thanks very much, good night, good...

Developing tonight, a new twist in the search for the malaysia airline jet that seemingly disappeared into thin air. 239 people on board, a high ranking malaysia military official is the one conducting the investigation. is now confirming flight 370 went hundreds of miles off course, before it went off radar. the boeing 777 took off at 12:41 a.m. saturday morning. 49 minutes later, ground controllers lost contact with the jet. thats when the trains transponder apparently stopped working, cutting...

Developing tonight, a new twist in the search for the malaysia airline jet that seemingly disappeared into thin air. 239 people on board, a high ranking malaysia military official is the one conducting the investigation. is now confirming flight 370 went hundreds of miles off course, before it went off radar. the boeing 777 took off at 12:41 a.m. saturday morning. 49 minutes later, ground controllers lost contact with the jet. thats when the trains transponder apparently stopped working, cutting...

Ground controllers, they should never let the super jumbo jet go by that. if that crj wasnt pulled up as far as it should have been pulled up, that may have been the problem. was the a-380 -- when you use those jumbo jets in this airport theyre ri stricted how fast they can go. a lot of facts we dont know, so i dont want to be able to place fault because we dont know enough. >> the thing is so big, 262 foot wing span, what is the pilot inside that jumbo jet seeing? i mean, its dark, he probably ...

But were now involved and gadhafi has a long track record of supporting terrorism, pan am 103, the disco bombing. hes fully capable of doing it again. if there is a long-term stalemate, you can be sure gadhafi will come after us. >> because hes got money, but does he have the means to come after us if he is isolated and has lost some of his closest advisers? >> hell still have associates, supporters in europe and other places. he can rent somebody if he has to. hes been in office for four decade...