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If you were a good stick you could do it. yeah. it is pretty clear that the malasian government thought this was some sort of criminal act and this may be one of the reasons that it is dole sterring that thought. i have heard that it is not unusual for pilots to preprogram wave points before they take off. but do you see any kind of scenario where you would preprogram any path like that. >> i dont. everything on the flight deck is cross checked to make sure that the route is the way that it was ...

>> i did. we had 18 difference wave points for us to cross through the path that they think happened. we are headed toward beijing this way. all of this blue stuff here it crosses here. here is stay land and this turn here after it crosses malasia it is making a turn to skirt around and you cant expand the scale more. it continued downward here. >> it would have to make the direction here. >> we are assuming here that this was preplanned and entered into the flight management system. you could d...

Lets bring in evan. tell us what youve learned. >> one of the things that people are focusing on is how investigators can try to determine what happened when the plane defuated from its course and it ends up in the straits o. we know from new information weve gotten is that you know, the investigators have been able to pinpoint some way point that is the aircraft appeared to go towards. they found at least two wave points that the aircraft traveled directly to. and so, one of the things theyre d...

Terrorist organizations not just al qaeda have had a fascination with aviation since the late 60s and early 70s. this is a viable weapon, whether it is to get your message out or as we saw at 9/11. while it is unlikely i dont think you can discount the fact there could be they farrious activity behind this. thats one of the reasons i think it has been turned into a criminal investigation. >> sure. when we say it is unlikely we realize we are comparing a range of unlikely events here, we are deal...

>> the developments are coming as u.s. intelligence officials tell cnn they believe that the pill on the are responsible for the jets disappearance. we are joined by aviation analyst mary. it is so good to have you with us. what specifically are authorities looking for in that flight simulator that was in the captains house? >> yes. some flight simulators save your recent work, save your recent routes flown. if the captain had flown a route similar to what they are picking up on the satellite pi...

Keeps growing. carol? >> the families continue in their anguish. tom foreman, thanks so much. i want to bring in our aviation correspondent, richard quest. he is in new york. we have captain sean cassidy, the first vice president of the airlines pilot association international. welcome to both of you. >> good morning. richard, i want to start with you. a pink from the plane or a plane that was picked up by satellite. when you plot those, they are prepared to go over the following wave points. th...

Satellite pings an the idea this plane was being navigated via wave points in the andaman islands. what does that tell us and what does that not tell us? >> i think what we have to focus on is what the data is. the transponder stopped transmitting, not that anybody turned it off. the same with the messaging system, it stopped. we have five wave points, the one on the island to the west of malaysia and the four data points from the satellite. the most logical thing is to say, for whatever reason,...

Bengal and indian ocean. so now this is india. india sending its navy in here on search and the u.s. navy is also searching in this area. x marks the spot right about there. the challenge is, though, this is a vast body of water and the americans are searching in this area more or less and the indians are coming in from this direction. if this plane did, in fact, hit some wave points and come in this direction like this, then trying to track it, looking for wreckage is like looking for a need un...

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...