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Skirted indonesian airspace as it veered off course saying the plane may have taken a route designed to avoid radar detection. >> so, while objects are also spotted on saturday by chinese air force search plane has there been any verify occasion whether the objects might have been the right ones? >> reporter: no there hasnt been. they havent given up any search for debris. but since the chinese issued those photographs and announced they found those white objects or spotted them from one of thei...

Fly around indonesia to avoid radar detection? >> reporter: it is possible. and let me show you exactly how it could be done. theres three sort of ways here. first and foremost, mitchell, the pilot, has programmed the aircraft with about 18 to 20 different way points. to show you where we are, were frying, as if out of kuala lumpur. this is where everything changed for this particular 370 flight. and thats where it veered off. so here you would see this pink line. thats actually depicting the fl...

The mystery of malaysian airlines flight 370 spawned new mysteries. one is the latest from a senior malaysian government source telling cnn the plane skirted indonesian airspace as it veered off course and went off the grid. that source says whoever was flying the plane also a mystery could have been trying to avoid radar detection. what would that look like and what are the implications here? if this plane were indeed to have skirted indonesian airspace give us an idea how this would to be done...

Tak taken. a source tells cnn the plane went around indonesian airspace and may have been purposely trying to avoid radar detection. how is this type of information -- why is it just coming out now a month after the plane disappeared? >> i think the real short answer here is, wolf, its taken us that amount of time to get that information out of a senior government official here. i think its pretty clear the investigators have had this information for a while. not quite clear how long and theyve ...

Ping. so this is exactly what they do. its a very unique signature. for it to turn out to be something else would be highly unlikely. >> that is fascinating. thank you for explaining that to us. just ahead, its one thing to fly around air space but it is another to completely avoid radar detection. a malaysian source tells cnn that this jet may have done just that. but something doesnt add up here. we will go to the flight simulator to tell you how the flight could have avoided detection. this i...

The device to 600 feet. its all going to be about how the sound prop gates in the water. it has to do with the fundamental properties of the ocean, the temperature, the sal lynnity. its hard without understanding the water column right at that point to understand how far, what kind of range it can detect that. but it is -- the device that we manufacture is for shallow water applications. >> thomas altshuler, thanks for clarifying. we appreciate it. >> thank you. still to come, nic robertson te...

Certainly. >> the planes radar track shows it skirted indonesia on its path toward the indian ocean, taking a route that suggests they say an intent to avoid radar detection. so whether the moves of flight 370 were intentional or not. the fact does remain, there are questions about how a boeing 777 could simply vanish. it does raise a slew of security concerns about just how planes are tracked. >> joining us for more on this is our martin savidge and -- its interesting martin and i want you, mit...

Signals they think could be from the passenger jet, but as william marks told me earlier, at least from his point of view, optimism is fading as to their ability to reacquire the signal. heres the thing, anderson just mentioned this, theres a new flight path that came out, when we try to find out the motive of what happened here, or if it was mechanical, what possibly could have caused this. heres what we know about the flight path, there was a diversion to avoid radar detection, again, that imp...

>> i need to be honest with you. it could take some days before the information is available to establish whether these detections can be confirmed as being from mh 370. in very deep oceanianic water, nothing happens fast. >> and when he says deep, he means water some three miles deep. a u.s. underwater drone is being prepared to scour the ocean floor near where the latest pings were heard. and as the search continues, so does speculation about what happened inside a cockpit. we are told the pla...

Welcome back. if malaysian flight 370 skirted ind neezian air space, how did it happen? the plane takes off and then flying around the northern end of indonesia possibly to avoid radar detection. martin, give us a sense of what this would even look like. >> we can show you how it would look from the cockpit and the flight management system. the triangle is us flying on a course that would have taken us to beijing. you can see where things dramatically changed and this flight veered off course.