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Problem with the aircraft or how it was operating. so thats true, thats why this is suspicious that apparently they entered in, this course changed 12 minutes before it happened, and even in that last conversation doesnt sound alarming. that "all right good night" is a handoff. >> within the realm of standard phraseology. very normal. >> reporter: they were going from malaysian airspace and have the malaysian air traffic controller say contact vietnam on such and such frequency, good night. >> t...

System and the camera. the radar is a primary sensor for search. anything large in the water will show up on my radar. ill take the camera, zoom in on it and make sure that its nothing of interest. but if its something that might be of interest, then well drop down low and use observers, the flight station and our eyes just to make sure that its nothing that could be, you know, survivor wreckage or anything like that. >> atika shubert reporting. lets bring in the former assistant fbi director. p...

Somebody actually believes that they have gone through this elaborate set of maneuvers so that we can -- whoever it is can land this jet in pakistan and use it as a weapon later. pakistan. well hear about that and talk through that in a moment. well also show you how the united states navy is using one of its most advanced airplanes to track that missing jet or try to find it at least. and in the light of all the recent developments and what weve learned about how this jet turned, we want to kno...

You will not find the plane off the ping of those black boxes. you need wreckage and something like that. >> i think the easier part as this is a complete mystery but now they have the flight simulator they are reconstructing that and looking at the backlog of history on it and the mystery might be solved by figuring out the people who were on board. >> i would just say that is an area of concentration. the two pilots, you know, are things to zero in on but you hope you get a suicide/murder plan...

Contact you? thats what they use to create that map. anywhere along that line, thats where the plane could be. >> we had technical issues with jim clancy. the line is the northern corridor. you see northern thailand into im going to draw it again here for you, into southern kazakhstan and the southern corridor starts near indonesia and then swings southwest all of the way up the western coast of australia. that is the new area that we heard from the remarks. here we go, the drawing the line agai...

Different pieces of information so we can take a more refined approach to the search and rescue effort. >> there was a report in "reuters" and it talked about the fact that the route seemed to be following what are called navigational waypoints. can you explain what navigational waypoints are? >> sure. the waypoints are basically latitude and longitude points in the airspace, and typically theyre given a name, and then when you program those waypoints in the flight management system, you can hav...

Can the plane fly for five hours or so? even if there was a large box of lithium batteries in the cargo hold, it doesnt explain that. chuck barnett, ill come back to you. well get your take on this new information. the breaking news were covering in our special "situation room" report, much more right after this. ♪ [ chicken caws ] [ male announcer ] when your favorite food starts a fight, fight back fast with tums. heartburn relief that neutralizes acid on contact and goes to work in seconds....

Fire because the plane, all of the alarms would go off, the fire suppress sors would be goi off and they would be trying to get it to the nearest airport, whether its a vietnam airport or malaysian airport. they would not be flying halfway around the indian ocean and there was a fire. >> so youre still working under the assumption that there was a person or persons that caused this, not a mechanical failure? >> even there, if the batteries went off, if there was a fire and if the warnings didnt ...

Switch themselves off. >> okay. >> and that is entirely possible. >> but then why no communication? why no we are in trouble? we are over whatever. we are losing power. why not that? >> we dont know. >> okay. >> with these questions, eventually you are forced into the position of saying we dont know. the biggest issue is why, for me, is how did this plane fly for an hour and ten and nobody on the ground spotted that a 777 m-370 with a filed flight plan to beijing had done a dogleg turn and was n...

Target aircraft. they have had various plots, 9/11, the bojinka plot, liquid explosives plot coming out of europe, as well. and al qaeda has even been on the record of saying that the pilot should administer a drug to the co pilot so he can take control of the aircraft. what has investigators so focus and had so concerned is now this period of time that it appears the aircraft was operating with a transponder off. how did it come off? how did the plane fly so many hundreds of miles back the rout...