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Lets rule that out. i think everything i have heard is it is truly just an accident. china has these new rules for the south china sea. we have had planes shot down in that area of the world before. this could have been a plane that has been shot down because it was violating some chinese air space rule. it could have been hijacked and landed in pakistan. i have heard all of these different kinds of theories. thats why you really need to, one, not rule anything out. at the same time make certain...

Ground and broke 19 bones. >> oh, my goodness. turns out if you eat a samona or ta tagalong congratulations, young ladies. i will take five boxes of the tagalongs. lets head up to the newsroom with carol costello. >> have a great weekend. "newsroom" starts now. happening now in the "newsroom" breaking overnight, the search turns west. >> we went from a chessboard to a football field. >> the hunt for flight 370 now focusing on a small group of islands almost 1,000 miles from takeoff. >> there...

Need to correlate all this day that thats coming in related to the accident. we need to make sure that we go back to the point where we have the highest level of confidence in where that plane last was and thats where we need to start. there is plenty of theories out there. there is very little correlated and verified data. >> correlated data. richard, im sure the investigators on the ground wish there was such a thing but it does not appear there is such a thing right now. >> a voice of sanity ...

To turn right here and turn left here and change altitudes here. these are wave points in an international airway across the sky. when you plot the route that this plane took using the pings, this is what it shows. it shows it went along those wave points. even the malaysians and the united states and even the u.s. navy says, there is not 100% confidence in this information but pardon the pun, in a sea of confusion, you have to follow every lead you possibly can. thats why this has taken on a si...

That the malaysian 370 was at. we are beginning to take off. we are heading down the runway. everything you see mitchell doing is everything that the pilot and co-pilot would have been doing. im in the co-pilot seat. it is designed to mirror exactly the course. mitchell was just putting in all the coordinates that we will follow. we have followed their course. we will go with their altitude and move at the planes speed. all of this to design and give you the feel of what they were going through....

The maintenance people and the housekeeping people. you know, hundreds and hundreds of people have access to an airplane on the ground before it even takes off and could introduce, you know, something harmful. we just had a guy fall out of the wheel well dead on a plane landing at dulles airport here in washington about a month ago. how did he get in the wheel well and ride on that aircraft as it flew across the ocean. so, you have many questions about the airport security, the ground security a...

One of the areas thats being searched. this string of islands stretches almost 500 miles north to south. most of them are uninhabited. there are only a few choices of a plane here coming down. even as people talk about the ideas of the west and there are some signals that suggest it might have gone this way. there is still very serious searching going on along the east along the original flight path toward vietnam. that still remains a very active search zone. the expanded search area is not evi...

Approaching 1,000. here is our speed. the goal is to eventually get to 35,000 feet. thats the last known altitude we knew and very shortly, here, mitchell is going to put us into autopilot, because the plane was flying at auto-pilot when it was last referenced. this was everything as it was happening a it was happening that night as we knew it. lets point out something pretty important here. the transponder. it was apparently for some reason off. why did it go off? here it is, this little device...

Asking why the transponders off, why we put that code in. theyre going to think it is a hijacking. >> we should point out, carol, allegedly, that has not happened. we have not had any reports that that emergency code was used. one last thing were on auto pilot. if i want today change course, as it suggested the plane did. if i did this, thats the alarm that tells me, the autopilot has been disengaged. i can turn it off and put us back on course. so, in other words, you can cant take this plane o...

Radar screen this transponder were flight 370 and at this altitude. can you turn it off? >> yes, you can. heres how you do it. just three clicks to the left and its off. but you would never do that, mitchell. >> we would never do that. never in flight. >> it would be like driving the wrong way down a highway and thats how a no go this sort of maneuver is, but it can be turned off. let me show you something else this transponder can do. put it back in the normal position. if i was hijacked, a way...