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>> the skill set necessary to fly formation undetected for an airline pilot is not a normal skill set. also, theyve got to find another airplane at night. i think its a very very far-fetched scenario and theres no evidence at all to back it up. >> if not in the air, could something or someone have interfered with the plane from the ground. >> is it possible that the plane could have somehow been hacked remotely? >> the question about being hacked has come up in the recent passed. this is a digit...

Of all of the radio equipment and the aircraft to have proper shielding and interference-type precautions in place. you cant have somebody hack into a system and change a heading on a navigation system. >> the initial idea was the high likelihood that a catastrophic event had occurred in flight. it did not prove to be as viable because the airplane deviated so far from the flight plan it tracked. >> after satellite imagery shows what something could be debriefed from flight 370, search teams beg...

Discover how we are advancing medicine at kp.org join us, and thrive. all right. were tracking a major development tonight about the missing malaysia flight 370 and what may have happened inside the cockpit. it is about the heading and

Your throat burning from the sensation of breathing in. i suggested that we put our heads lower. in firefighting school we learned that the lower you got, the more that you could be below the smoke. >> with low visibility and few remaining control or navigation systems, captain cameron is flying almost blind. >> we have no heading. we have no instruments. all we have is laser right now. >> i would have been up close like this with my eyeball maybe three, four inches away from the window on the l...

That would be in the box. he still could have it on heading mode. that sets up a scenario where if the crew did, in fact, become incapacitated the plane would hold that heading and hold that altitude until the tanks were dry. that puts us right back where we were. deep into the indian ocean. but suddenly as mary was saying earlier, i feel like the pieces are coming together a little better. weve been really stretching before. and this, you know, the old idea, go for the simplest scenario, this i...

The investigation. the idea no indication from the acars data, wireless transmission of data from the plane that the plane was preprogrammed. i have clive next to me. youre experienced in these issues. as tom reminded, it wasnt just acars transmission that turned out to be false that gave an indication, its that the plane flew steady by way points, less likely for you or me if we were experienced pilots to handle than an autopilot. arent there ways for the pilot without preprogramming, turning t...

If you have the communication bus fails, no communication, pilots could have navigational abilities, still have the autopilot working, plug in no way points, other points like that. i really believe at this point, im really starting to narrow in on a good theory that makes a lot of sense to me, that is that the communication bust itself. how is the pinging, sat com pinging at that point. im going to be looking into that. >> youve investigated crashes before. does that theory sound plausible to y...

To maintain the heading. i think the last point that was in there, assuming its a diversionary airport that was put in or some other waypoint that brought you closer, whatever that last waypoint was and it sees nothing in front of it or another waypoint, it just will hold that heading. assuming the autopilot is on. >> in the autopilot, the original heading would be beijing? >> no. im saying the original heading to the diversionary airport. >> before the diversion what would be -- because they wo...

Hypoxia, would the autopilot revert back to the original destination? >> it could be anybodys guess. you go with my fire scenario or miles scenario with hypoxia, it depends upon how degraded the autopilot system was. if it managed to maintain altitude and course, whatever was put into the plane management computer, whether its kuala lumpur or some other alternate airport, the fmc is programmed to go to that destination. if it has nothing else to go to, itll maintain a heading. and continue on th...

Theres a fire, decompression, you want the plane back to safe harbor, airport behind you, is that something a pilot would do in those circumstances, turn the heading, get headed back in a direction, safer direction? >> thats absolutely correct. the plane at that point in our case would have been on autopilot. fire, decompression. youre donning the mask, getting down and getting to the nearest airport immediately. you would do that using heading bug. asking for vector, mayday, mayday, my day, hav...