there is no extra way points programmed into the flight management system. it only showed route up to beijing. martin and mitchell, you want to weigh in on that? well, i mean, as far as what we ve done, yeah, we programmed in way points, and we followed way points. and richard is absolutely right. it is possible that way points had nothing to do with the rerouting of the aircraft. we use those because they re common means of navigation for aviation. yeah, it just makes sense in a big airline like this, you don t navigate with heading select. everything is you get a flight plan and you have way points. it just makes sense. it s counterintuitive to think heading select in an aircraft like this. i will say the malaysians have always at least early on in the investigation implied that this was a crime in their mind. and looking at something like this, you could interpret it to say oh, i see where they might
contact have been reported now. still, no confirmation that they are connected to flight 370. so let s head back now to our flight simulator. cnn s martin savidge and mitchell cassado. the how is easier to explain than the why. mitchell has been working through the various way points. keep in mind we only know roughly the route he would have flown. we don t know the way points in order to make it happen. i ll let you explain because that s more your thing. yeah, how would it have avoided radar? it s a matter of looking at the charts, the maps, and seeing where the boundaries are for the airspace, the radar, and flying around it. so for your particular scenario, though, you actually plotted a course that takes it originally from what it was to beijing and came in a different way. what was it? this is basically our route
criminal intent. that s the implication. well, what we re doing is we re looking at empirical data. we re looking at where the aircraft flew, and we re trying to guess what the intention is from that. and that s always dangerous territory. i mean, you really just go back to the data. we know where it flew, but we don t have any other evidence that suggests they re trying to skirt radar. so i m not willing to draw any conclusions from that. and as an audio expert, none of this says anything until you want to get the empirical evidence, which is if the plane is on the bottom of the ocean with the plane on the bottom on the ocean. show me the ping. show me the ping. that s when everything changes. yeah. and by the way, as an aside, i m sure the viewer has noticed that each time we go to the simulator with martin and mitchell, there is quite a bit amount of noise. and that s because, i guess, that the they re making the
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the flight management system, or fms. this is basically i guess you could say for this explanation, a gps. a very robust gps. but it works kind of like one in your car. would you pick out where you re headed, and you would enter that information. now, with the flight 370, they went from kuala lumpur to beijing, all the waypoints, all the information the aircraft needs to do that would be loaded in before the plane takes off. however, once they re in the air, it is possible to reprogram, choose a different waypoint, head in another direction. mitchell cassado, the pligilot,n demonstrate. absolutely. so this screen here, we have a potential this is our flight path. this triangle here, the apex of the triangle is us. to modify air path is very simple. all we do is enter the waypoint, or the destination where we want to go. and we enter into the computer. the computer then asks us if we want to verify that. and then we would go ahead and