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Okay, im going to give him a handoff. hell check with you shortly. >> someone in the cockpit signs off with good night malaysian 370. but just two minutes later, signs of trouble. >> so everything kind of goes quiet all of a sudden in a hurry. at 1:21 a.m., the planes transponder goes silent. >> when you turn it off, its like lights are out. no voice communication. >> and no signal to air traffic control with the planes location, speed and altitude. >> it could have been physically turned off. t...

Well bring you updates throughout the hour. now back to the latest on flight 370. >> the left turn that you see here on this map is generating controversy, embarrassment and a lot of unanswered questions about flight 370. a malaysian government source tells cnn they consider the airlines left off course turn a quote criminal act either by one of the pilots or by someone else on board. but authorities have found nothing in the days of investigating the two pilots that leads any to believe that th...

It maintained that course for a while, then it turned several more times, heading into the indian ocean. thats on the radar, thats documented, thats why the united states moved its assets towards the indian ocean, through the andaman sea, through the straits, the malacca straits. all of those things make sense from the radar data. theyve gotten it confirmed with radar from thailand. the vietnamese were able to help a little bit. the indonesians said they couldnt turn anything over. from the outs...

>> reporter: theyre looking at all of the theories. theres no doubt about that. because look, they as early as 48 hours after this plane went missing, we had authorities right here in kuala lumpur telling us they looked at the data and they saw what they thought was a turnback. maybe the pilot was trying to return to kuala lumpur. thats how sharp the turn was. it was almost, almost 180 degrees, but it doesnt explain a lot of things. we dont know what it means, what was going on in the cockpit. w...

This is what membership does. could debris spotted by a chinese search plane in the indian ocean belong to malaysia airlines 370? chinas news agency reports one of its two planes involved in the search spotted these suspicious objects floating in the water. two relatively big objects and some smaller, white ones scattered over a wider area. now, this comes as were learning more about the planes flight path. military radar indicates flight 370 made a dramatic descent as it turned off course and...

>> nice to see you. we begin with a potential breakthrough in the search for missing malaysian flight 370, missing now for 17 days. the crew of a chinese plane reportedly spotting suspicious objects in the southern indian ocean. now, according to chinas news agency, they include two relatively big objects and then some smaller ones. a chinese icebreaker said to be heading on that area. it comes as were learning more about what may have happened in the cockpit of flight 370. military radar indica...

Associati association. he said, you know when you look at what really matters, that is finding this aircraft, he says there is something positive thats going on. listen. >> encouraging things, you know, youve got 20 more nations coming together here regardless of race or political background, you know, helping us out. it is most encouraging. i think never in the history of malaysia we have got more than 24 countries helping us out. very encouraging indeed. if you go to the international airport,...

Potentially contemplating crossing into ukraine. so, of course, this is expected to become, despite the real setting here being the nuclear security summit, thats going to be the main context of discussions that are expected to take place later today, deb. >> with the president sort of urging more unity when it comes to what the russians are doing in crimea, how do you think the europeans are going to respond to that message? how will it be received? >> reporter: well, were seeing, you know, mes...

26 minutes past the hour. welcome back. this morning we are following the latest breaking news in the search for malaysia airlines flight 370. a chinese plane has spotted suspicious objects off the coast of australia. ships at this moment on their way right now to see if those objects might be from the jet. that as cnn has learned the plane dropped to 12,000 feet after making its turn off course. cnns martin savidge took these new details, these brand-new details we have about the flight, he too...

Two-minute turn would feel like. and this is it, right? were doing it now. its barely perceptible. its slight, youll get it, but if youre a passenger, once we straighten up, you would not sit here and say, boy, like, this is something very, very wrong. this is a subtle, slow turn. its sharp in that it will deviate you from the course to beijing eventually, but the perception that youre like banking, thats not what the simulator reflects on that. all right, so, lets go into the altitude issue. re...