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Cause a deliberate action? >> a lot of it depends on how secure the cockpit is. ive been on international flights and seen the cockpit door open for extended periods of time between me and that door. clearly the plane was under the control of someone, whether it was one of the two pilots on board, another flight attendant crew member, an intruder from the back of of the airplane, we simply dont know. the behavior of the plane was it would not make these turns on its own. >> these planes, it does...

Does it read like a deliberate turn? >> it looks like a deliberate turn, the question is whether the pilot did it or someone else? i fly flight simulators on my mack and change the heading in a matter of seconds. you dial it in the heading and sul youll see the magnetic arc -- >> that is so nerdy and impressive. >> i can go major aviation geek on you. ill spare you that. the point is in flight it doesnt take a lot to change direction of the aircraft. >> and its a sharp turn like that. it could h...

Was it sabotage, was it some kind of hijacking? we do not know the answer to that. nobody at the moment really knows the answer to that. because they have no definitive intelligence or information that leads them to believe it was an act of terrorism, sabotage, a deliberate act, pilot suicide, any of the theories weve all heard for the last several days. what they do have is data, information now, technical, highly technical data that tells them the likely path of the plane. in other words where...

Another, some seem to fade away. when it first happened, all the reporting on this subject was its a crash, it went down somewhere in the vicinity of malaysia. its becoming increasingly likely that this was not an accident. if these recent reuters reports are accurate, this plane was flown on a deliberate heading to the west on a zigzag course towards the andaman is lands. >> give me a sign post to you which point to theft. >> very soon after the incident happened, there were reports of supposed...

Blip. the secondary radar waits for the ping and a squawk from the airplane. the secondary sends a signal and the plane sends it back andys i am malaysia systems, 39,000 feet to the northeast and about 025 was the heading. im at 39,000 doing about 450 knots. thats all we know. this is how good we are. that goes back to the air traffic control. we would love to have them take over. it hasnt been implemented yet. heres the rub i will leave that. this is the map of where we are talking about. the p...

Something could have happened on board and we knew he had to get back to land quickly. he turns a heading back to ground. something else happens. the plane carries on flying a predestined. all sorts of reasons why it will be flying towards the way points. >> when you look at the way points and it appears to be plotted here, the latest information saying the plane went to the way points. does that lend anything to your thinking as to what might have happened? >> i agree. im not sure the airplane ...

Ive done where you hear about cell phone pings trying to locate an individual. help us understand these pings and if they are in fact real, why wouldnt that lead to the location of the plane. >> so the pings as its described to us, these are pings from a computer system on board of plane that is in an idle state. all it is saying is im here, im here, im here. but its not sending data on location, speed, heading, et cetera. but what theyre wondering is as it hit the satellite, and we goc dont thi...

Failure or add up to sabotage? we fry to piece it altogether. its quite like a puzzle. lets start with jim clancy in kuala lumpur. >> lets rewind back to sunday. the first time malaysian officials talked about the original change in course after heading to beijing, flight 370 suddenly and abruptly shut off the transponder and then the pilot, it would appear, or someone changed the direction, the heading of the aircraft. the officials on sunday said that they thought the pilot might have been att...

Challenges the administration is facing heading toward the midterm and how obamacare. what is the cycle of negativity the administration is facing and would it be a since of foreboding about a growing foreign policy crisis that is looming that people dont perceive the gravity of? >> perhaps. except i think that is also an area of real vulnerability for the president. >> how so? >> i think the people look at the president in doubt whether he has a unified theory of foreign policy right now and ho...

Heading, altitudes, et cetera, so that there is some degree of situational awareness when an airplane is beyond radar coverage. when you get into the area theyre talking about, there arent even really too many jet routes. so the chance of being able to put an airplane down out there somewhere, if thats your intent and have it disappear completely is pretty good. >> so you know these routes well then. what do these routes tell you that they may have taken, given that pivot point may have occurred...