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Theyre looking at it. and what is stunning is for the first time in a very detailed report, we get some insight on what teams doing the analysis think about what happened on flight 370. a startling scenario, the pilots of malaysia airlines flight 370 unconscious. the plane not under human control. as it flew more than five hours across the indian ocean. >> it is highly, highly likely that the aircraft was on autopilot. otherwise, it could not have followed the orderly path that has -- that has b...

Quest. i love disagreeing with richard quest in principle. here i think richard, you are off base. the plane clearly did not turn itself on a westerly heading i. did not skirt the thai border the way it did. this is clearly under human control. i dont think that that is ambiguous. theres no accident -- look, the triple seven is an incredibly robust plane with a fantastic safety record. have to side on those. >> as the ring master, thats it for now. when we come back, a team of experts will answe...

I strongly disagree with richard quest. i love disagreeing with richard questioning in general. here i think richard, you are off base. the plane clearly did not turn itself on a westerly heading. it did not skirt the thai border the way it did. this is clearly under human control. i dont think that that is ambiguous. theres no accident that -- look, the triple seven is an incredibly robust plane with a fantastic safety record. have to side on the side of those who say -- >> as the ringmaster, t...

Spot and will find it on the education floor, that search on the ocean surface will end. wolf? >> please thank those crews for all their excellent work. thanks very much, miguel marquez. lets bring in our panel. pamela brown. along with former oceanographer, van gerley. peter goelz and law enforcement an liz, tom fuentes. what does it say to you, it went from 35,000, normal cruising up to 39,000 feet after it made that surprising left turn after transponders stopped working. spent 15s in vietn...

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...

Something ive been saying for a long time. that this aircraft was probably abducted by someone and they had a purpose in mind. they were on their way somewhere. maybe they never reached their destination but this is more and more like a deliberate act under human control. and incidentally, i have rather extensive experience with auvs, apparatus underwater vehicles. and i can tell you, we used one in 2012 on our air hertz search. in that case we were searching a steep coral reef. when you have st...

> reporter: so we know this search area has been pushed back by about 700 miles to the northeast. does this seem to fit with an aircraft doing 400 knots at what altitude? >> it does make sense, but to get a definite answer, we would have to know the conditions that were existing at that time. >> reporter: the short answer is, weve run it through a lot of scenarios. and yes, it could be done if the conditions were right. we still dont know things like head winds, altitude, and how much fuel they ...

Indicate human control. >> right. that is crucial to this whole understanding. we dont know whether first of all there was that altitude change at the beginning of the flight after the turn. weve never known it. there have been reports it went from 45 to 20, but we have never had it confirmed what it is. and the interesting thing looking at what mitchell and marty are doing there is, this question of the -- guys, this question of them now saying they believe it was going faster in the first part...

Indicate human control. >> right. that is crucial to this whole understanding. we dont know whether first of all there was that altitude change at the beginning of the flight after the turn. weve never known it. there have been reports it went from 45 to 20, but we have never had it confirmed what it is. and the interesting thing looking at what mitchell and marty are doing there is, this question of the -- guys, this question of them now saying they believe it was going faster in the first part...

>> yeah. youre going to increase your fuel burn by anywhere between 40 and 50% at that altitude. so your weight is going to be decreased with the higher speed. >> so we know that this search area has been pushed back by about 700 miles to the northeast. does this seem to fit with an aircraft doing 400 knots at what altitude? >> well, even with all the stuff we dont know, it does make sense. but to get a definite answer we would have to know the conditions that were existing at that time. >> i gu...