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Why does it take you days to figure out the plane turned? >> im not going to go into the minnesota minute detail. they said on the 11th, we are not discounting the possibility of a turn. but this plane wasnt where it was supposed to be. they went to the obvious place to search for it. they found it wasnt there. and then they started to look much more closely. but there wasnt one bit of evidence until they got the radar data. miles will no doubt question and say that radar data should have been -...

Publicly, malaysian officials did say all the radar data is central to their investigation. >> the manner of the air traffic control at the time of the aircraft make an air turn back is one of the very important criteria for the investigators to look at. >> reporter: in a background briefing, malaysian investigators told cnn that they believed flight mh-370, whoever was flying it had a thorough knowledge of the aircraft. and was a criminal act by one of the two pilots or someone else on board. >...

Did say all the radar data is central to their investigation. >> the manner of the air traffic control at the time of the aircraft make an air turn back is one of the very important criteria for the investigators to look at. >> reporter: in a background briefing, malaysian investigators told cnn that they believed flight mh-370, whoever was flying it had a thorough knowledge of the aircraft. and was a criminal act by one of the two pilots or someone else on board. >> nick, why do investigators t...

370. somebody somewhere knows something that theyre not telling. it seems not all of these countries looking for the missing flight are too keen revealing to each other about the spying capabilities they have. indian officials were reluctant to discuss radar data along the bay of bengal. why? the area is a weak spot in that countrys coverage. a limitation that they wish not to reveal. there have been complaints that china wont share all of its data, and that when it does so, the images have been...

Informed you. >> reporter: investigation officials insist privately this new map is not theirs, that it doesnt match malaysian radar readings. despite refusing to comment publicly malaysian officials did say all the radar data is central to their investigation. >> the manner of the control at the time of the aircraft turn is one of the very important for investigators. >> reporter: in a background briefing given to cnn malaysian investigators say they believed mh-370 was flown by someone with go...

Internet, i cannot confirm or discount. i can only base on what ive informed you in my pieces. >> reporter: investigation officials insist privately this new map is not theirs, that it doesnt match malaysian radar readings. despite refusing to comment publicly, malaysian officials did say all the radar data is central to their investigation. >> the manner of the air traffic control at the time of the aircraft make an air turn back is one of the very important criteria for investigators to look a...

Were found within a couple of weeks. we are going into the fourth week. >> if there was that much debris wouldnt it have been seen somewhere by someone? if you landed the plane in tact could it have sunk? >> if it sunk to the bottom you are not going to see it from a satellite. >> to the route that these families had shown malaysian authorities, if that is correct, then if you translate we are probably looking in the wrong place because fuel burn is longer, speeds are off. its one thing to analy...

Quite honestly, im hopeful, but im pessimistic we may not even be in the right spot. >> based on -- the satellite information coming in suggesting that originally it was further in the southern part of the indian ocean. they moved it up six or seven hundred miles closer towards perth, australia. but youre not even sure thats the right spot? >> well, i like it better than the first one. my belief is this radar data from thailand is accurate. the airplane went down and went back up. used some gas....

Ditching. but its pretty hard to ditch in the water at night. so i cant -- im not exactly sure at that time after that much flying if they were in daylight conditions or darkness. that would be a key thing. >> no question. miles, let me bring another question from a viewer. this one asks, if military radar was picking up a plane without a transponder, why didnt it raise any flags to deploy help? so that that famous malaysian radar data that saw a plane going across there but not identifying itse...

Have identified a debris field. they have to be close. >> tom, i want to go to you now. with flight 800, that was a smaller area. here you have a huge area, the only precedent would be air france 447, the difference there was wreckage was found. is there precedent for going into a search like this with so little information? >> well, i think air france does a good example. for flight 800, they had two air national guard pilots and they new where flight 800 was immediately. what i find interestin...