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Number of waypoints just as a just in case, and that would explain why it is that they made those erratic movements. >> thats correct. they could have done that. or simply use a heading mode, which is the fastest and the simplest way to turn the aircraft from the navigation route that they -- the original route. were told to -- if we need to do that in a hurry, you basically just push one button, heading select, and turn to heading to whatever you want it to be. in this case, would have been hea...

Number of waypoints just as a just in case, and that would explain why it is that they made those erratic movements. >> thats correct. they could have done that. or simply use a heading mode, which is the fastest and the simplest way to turn the aircraft from the navigation route that they -- the original route. were told to -- if we need to do that in a hurry, you basically just push one button, heading select, and turn to heading to whatever you want it to be. in this case, would have been hea...

Tick is if they have a mechanical that, was the last heading and search areas where they would have run out of fuel. >> all right. take us through the circles that theyve been searching. >> right. the circles come right the way around across through the southern part into the indian ocean. right way down into towards western australia. and now we come to where the debris is found. it has been found roughly two pieces of debris, 14 miles apart according to the satellite. and its been found roughl...

Was it an act of -- did the flight crew activate it on computer? did they hit the heading select and turn it to a random heading and fly off into oblivion. secondly, the voice recorder records all of the voice contacts in the cockpit. its a very -- it records everything. every little sound. youd know if there was an intervention. if there was an intervention, we have a whole new mystery as to why. if it wasnt an intervention, then the pilots went rogue. why did they do that. >> lets say we get t...

Number of waypoints just as a just in case, and that would explain why it is that they made those erratic movements. >> thats correct. they could have done that. or simply use a heading mode, which is the fastest and the simplest way to turn the aircraft from the navigation route that they -- the original route. were told to -- if we need to do that in a hurry, you basically just push one button, heading select, and turn to heading to whatever you want it to be. in this case, would have been hea...

Continue on the same heading that it went over and just stayed on that heading until something altered its course, either a degradation of the avionics or some other particular reason, an external force like weather, the winds aloft, until it ran out of fuel. it may have started a southerly turn which is why they started to do a search in that direction. >> but for this theory to work, he would have programmed this in after the programmed the new direction into the computer after he said, "all r...

Waypoint that was programmed into the flight management system, it will go into the mode where it will fly the last assigned ground track and keep going on that heading until essentially what will probably happen or may have happened, until the airplane runs out of gas. it wouldnt require inputs. its an automatic mode. the boeing and rockwell and honeywell built into that system and thats what it will do. >> thats a good question. that is being talked about. the next one is for you. this tweet f...

A crew did exactly what their books told them to do, by descending and getting off the airway and that kind of coincides with that westerly heading that would have taken them to the indian ocean. now, if they were succumbed by smoke and fire, the airplane perhaps flew by itself for a while. so either exhausted its fuel supply, or crashed because the controls were perhaps melting. >> sure. now, it would make no sense to anybody like me, who doesnt have experience with this sort of thing, that the...

Is significant. but id like to go back to one other point that was made earlier. whether this turn was the result of a mechanic malfunction on the airplane or something else, i have to say, at 1:07 when the acars system reported that there was a program change for the heading in the airplane followed by 12 minutes later when the pilot made his infamous remark "all right, good night," pilots dont make their change in course mid-flight without getting permission from air traffic control. they had ...

Burn through oxygen hoses, get more intense and i think we would have lost the airplane there and then. >> les? >> we dont know if indeed it happened where the equipment was that was starting to shut down. so different things would have happened depending upon where the origination of that fire was, assuming that it was in that e and e-bay we saw earlier, the avionics bay. but as far as the turns once again i agree with john nance that it seems a little suspicious that there were a bunch of turn...