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Tonights breaking news, nbc reporting that flight 370s turn was preprogrammed at least 12 minutes before the co-pilot signed off with the words "all right, good night." so combine them all and what do the clues tell us? what are investigators looking at? they havent officially ruled out any of the theories on the table. were going to spend some time tonight drilling down on those theories investigators are looking at with our experts. cnn aviation analyst, 777 captain, les abend with 30 years ex...

Experience, aviation analyst jim tillman who was a captain for american airlines. he retired with nearly 30 minutes of experience. and john nance, aviation analyst for abc news with more than 13,000 hours of flight time in commercial and air force jets. so lets start with you. one of the theories that a lot of people have been particularly focusing on in the last couple of days is the idea of a fire on board. and the pilot and co-pilot perhaps trying to make an emergency landing at a different m...

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, ...

Great to have both of you with us. theres so much here to talk about. but when we put this reporting together, john, we have a plane that turned off of its flight path, started to switch direction dramatically, switch altitude dramatically and seemed to level out heading out. and then made a choice, im going to go left or right. when you put all that together, lets faulk about motive. who would want to do this or could this have happened in any way, shape or form with everybody on the plane bein...

Plane continued to fly in tact for more than five hours after the last known contact on one of two possible -- in two possible directions probably the best way to say it. either in the northwesterly direction, crashing in the bay of bengal off the coast of india, or in the southeast direction, crashing in the indian ocean. i want to make two clear points here. these two areas that are now being searched are in the opposite direction of where that plane was flying. that plane was supposed to fly ...

Are specifically, but if you reverse that process that i was describing of somebody at sea, looking at the stars to figure out where they are, if you reverse that trigonometry and say im going to use this satellite to give me an idea where that plane would have been in an hour after its last successful hand shake, you wind up with these areas. thats why the u.s. is focusing so much here. >> tom, thank you very much. i want to bring in a captain thats flown the 777 and john nance is back with us....

Who was on some sort of bizarre suicide mission or someone else? because i want to emphasis the reporting that that plane went out on the ocean and made a very sharp turn to go left or right, as if it was trying to go somewhere specific. >> right. i cant challenge anything john said nor would i want to. hes the expert in this field. im looking at this from the perspective of what were the motivations or priority this airplane taking off? and when it -- in order as i said earlier, you want to mov...

Do you think that that then was a pilot who was on some sort of a bizarre suicide mission or someone else? because i want to emphasize the reporting from our barbara starr, that plane went out on the ocean and made a very sharp turn to go to the left or right as if, spider, it was to go somewhere specific. >> right. erin, i cant challenge anything john said nor would i want to. hes the expert in the field. im looking at this from the perspective of what were the motivations of priority this airp...

>> what may have been happening, something was occurring in that e and e down below the galley where it was disabling the electronic guts of the airplane and they were having problems controlling the airplane. >> john, your point of view, though, that the erratic maneuvers and altitude suggest some sort of struggle in the cockpit? >> les could be right. but it is a very low probability in my view. continues to deteriorate in terms of probability with the things were learning. doesnt mean it coul...

Communication going on here. >> thank you very much, tom. theyre valuable to get a sense of whats going on. john, let me ask you, to toms point, talking about the communication systems. if it was turned off at 1:07 and 1:21 a.m. he talked about a sudden depressurization situation. could a situation like that account for this latest reporting? a turnoff about 15 minutes apart of two of the key systems? >> the depressurization doesnt make sense with the shutdown of the two radios. the other part m...