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Was nefarious or mechanical it happened as a result of that transponder and that acars getting shut off. >> what is clear now, the captain was the last person on the jet, not his co-pilot, to speak to air traffic controllers, telling them good night, malaysian flight 370. the sources say there was nothing unusual about his voice which portrayed no indication he was under stress and no third voice is heard. and just today, more than a month after the flight disappeared, were learning malaysian ai...

It could be done. theres three sort of ways here. first and foremost, mitchell, the pilot, has programmed the aircraft with about 18 to 20 different way points. to show you where we are, were frying, as if out of kuala lumpur. this is where everything changed for this particular 370 flight. and thats where it veered off. so here you would see this pink line. thats actually depicting the flying over the northern malaysian peninsula. and here the course change again, this time to the north, and th...

Fly around indonesia to avoid radar detection? >> reporter: it is possible. and let me show you exactly how it could be done. theres three sort of ways here. first and foremost, mitchell, the pilot, has programmed the aircraft with about 18 to 20 different way points. to show you where we are, were frying, as if out of kuala lumpur. this is where everything changed for this particular 370 flight. and thats where it veered off. so here you would see this pink line. thats actually depicting the fl...

Just with the simple turn of this knob, we can select a different heading. >> you can manually set the heading you want. you y now you can feel the course changing. you can also do it manually. >> if you were really sure, you could absolutely do it manually. >> and could this all have been done with one pilot totally unaware? >> no, theres no way. the airplane would be turning. if he was here, he would have noticed. >> plus, he would see this altered coast ahead of him. and this cant be masked i...

Here. this is us, the triangle and were headed up to igari, thats not a place, its really just a way point in the sky. youll see that the aircraft made a dramatic turn offcourse and begins to follow this rather winding and bending route to go over the northern part of malaysia, and this is the part that skirts around indonesia. you can do it by setting the autopilot, but theres another way you can do it? >> you just do a little bit of course correction, you choose the heading that you want and t...

Here. this magenta line, this pink line if we were going to beijing. what they did is a whole matter of turning the other way. so this is the line here. this is their course point opposite the direction they should have. and you can see -- you can see it here on the screen. >> you can see how the pink line deviates and deviates dramatically. >> exactly. this would be indonesia down here on the left. our bottom line circumvents it. gives it a wide berth around and down toward the south. >> we sho...

Dont understand why the malaysians never scrambled aircraft to interset that aircraft, then took a turn to the northwest, and then again to the south. all had to be done by human input. whether it was on an fms, a flight management system, or whether it was done by changing the heading of the aircraft, and that would have been done while the airplane was on autopilot but a manual input. >> that turn away from the route towards beijing, it was supposed to go to beijing that turn happened a couple...

By accident, but that would be a big coincidence. >> reporter: i asked mitchell to program it in. approaching this area right here, thats the last known normal point of flight 370. and now you see the plane will have to make a very sharp, veering turn and go on to this court that mitchell has picked. we dont know the way points, we dont even know how many way points there were. but there were supposed to be -- >> about 15 way pointses. there is another way to manually do it and show us. >> and i...

Beijing from kuala lumpur. it was a boeing 777-200. it was expected to land at 6:30 a.m. local time. now, its almost 9:00 in the morning in beijing right now. that means that plane is 2 1/2 hours late. >> the confusion, concern and fear at that hour, completely predictable. everyone dreaded the worst, a terrible accident. >> we have confirmed this flight, mh-370 lost contact with air traffic control at 3:40 a.m. this morning. >> most people at initial stage thought that it was a straightforward ...

To land at 6:30 a.m. local time. now its almost 9:00 in the morning in beijing right now meaning that plane is 2.5 hours late. >> reporter: the confusion, concern and fear at that hour completely predictable. everyone dreaded the worst. a terrible accident. >> -- confirm that this flight mh-370 lost contact with air traffic control at 2:40 a.m. this morning. >> most people at initial stage thought it was a straightforward crash and come down somewhere south of vietnam and the wreckage would be f...