there is no extra way points programmed into the flight management system. it only showed route up to beijing. martin and mitchell, you want to weigh in on that? well, i mean, as far as what we ve done, yeah, we programmed in way points, and we followed way points. and richard is absolutely right. it is possible that way points had nothing to do with the rerouting of the aircraft. we use those because they re common means of navigation for aviation. yeah, it just makes sense in a big airline like this, you don t navigate with heading select. everything is you get a flight plan and you have way points. it just makes sense. it s counterintuitive to think heading select in an aircraft like this. i will say the malaysians have always at least early on in the investigation implied that this was a crime in their mind. and looking at something like this, you could interpret it to say oh, i see where they might
most likely yes, unless there was another in between waypoint which i have not heard of. most likely as soon as he hit that way pointpoint it s starting to make that nice slow curve to the west. these are not dramatic turns. is it your information that the plane had turned west and was heading west instead of northeast than it was supposed to, was that different from the report that had been generated 30 minutes earlier at 12:47 a.m.? we don t know what the flight plan was other than it was the traditional route up to beijing, the next report shows it has a new flight path. when the new york times broke information yesterday that the u-turn off the intended flight course had been programmed in by somebody, the plane had been told to do it, the one piece
most likely yes, unless there was another in between waypoint which i have not heard of. most likely as soon as he hit that way pointpoint it s starting to make that nice slow curve to the west. these are not dramatic turns. is it your information that the plane had turned west and was heading west instead of northeast than it was supposed to, was that different from the report that had been generated 30 minutes earlier at 12:47 a.m.? we don t know what the flight plan was other than it was the traditional route up to beijing, the next report shows it has a new flight path. when the new york times broke information yesterday that the u-turn off the intended flight course had been programmed in by somebody, the plane had been told to do it, the one piece