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But beyond that, lets just say that the airplane continued to that waypoint that was entered. it may very well have been an airport. theyve been overcome by the smoke, the fumes, that airplane once it hits that waypoint, it just continues on a heading. now you still have the fire progressing. whats the airplane going to do? were in unchartered territory. >> jim tillman, let me ask you this. i got a tweet from a viewer, francis tweeted a question. could a plane with an onboard fire remain in flig...

If we cant find a lot about the act if we go back and look for rehearsal indicators, like what may have been on his flight simulator or like other trips here the co-pilot may have taken into the region and into possible places where they may have taken this airplane, we may get additional clues that will help focus the investigation. i know we are all focused on the arc and tom can probably help us on this. there iss a lot of places in the world that are within the range of a 777 flying out of k...

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 & ebay 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 turns. but where were the bunch of turns if thats accurate information? >> and again, ...

Buttons and instead of going to beijing, you can make a left turn and head out west to the indian ocean. >> you dont a need to use that. you can simply change the heading. its on auto pilot. its not a manual control of an aircraft. you can change the heading to make the turn. >> miking, how do people know it was preprogrammed inside the cockpit? >> i dont know how they know inside the cockpit. what happened is this was sending information down to the ground where it was taken through the acar sy...

Hours under his belt, did what experienced aviators do, aim for an airport. in in article originally on google plus, chris goodfellow writes this. "we old pilots were always drilled to always know the closest pile of safe harbor while in cruise. airports behind us, airports abeam us, and airports ahead of us, always in our head. always. because if something happens, you dont want to be thinking, what are you going to do? you already know what youre going to do. instinctively when i saw that left...

Mode to track that heading. so the fact that it appears that it turned either to the north or to the south doesnt really jive with that theory. there is still the idea of a hijack of some sort, either an intruder or the crew. you know, thats sort of where we are. were looking for enough data to make a reasonable conclusion. >> jim tillman, how accurate do you think this radar information is that has been released? do you believe -- because a lot of it is not clear-cut this was the plane, its int...

Coordinates for it to head west from its course that it was over the gulf of thailand. now, how that information was transmitted, that simply i dont know and thats one of the investigations that this brings up. they do know with certainty that the aircraft veered from its course on its way to beijing and did so on purpose because someone changed the heading in the computer system, jake. >> rene, whether or not that was conveyed through the acars system, thats significant. explain to us why? >> w...

Problem like smoke in the cockpit if you had an electrical fire in the avionics bay or something like that, he would have turned to the nearest airport which would have made sense. under that hypothesis if they became incapacitated or if there was a flight control problem. if there was a flight control problem, they still would have had the radio, so its hard to figure out. what really doesnt make sense on that, though, was if they did become incapacitated and the airplane was flying along, it w...

Its not as easy as it sounds. >> these are weigh stations. you plug them in, the plane turns to the appropriate heading and flies to the way station. and if you put in the wrong way station, which happens sometimes, the plane will go back and get the way station. so its pretty simple but youve got to do it and youve got to do it right. >> pamela, youre an experienced pilot. tell us about the time that you would change the automatic flight path inside the cockpit once youre flying. what would gen...

Want to go to and you punch in that waypoint code. theres like four letters or numbers on that code and the plane turns or you can turn your auto pilot. you can instruct the auto pilot to turn and it will go to that waypoint and then thats in the computer but you didnt punch in it. so we know it happened. we know they were going to the waypoint but the biggest mystery is still how, why, who? but we at least now have a better heading thanks to the thai government. most helpful. >> lets talk for a...