into the southern indian ocean. the massive search now will move south, away from where crews had been looking. >> let's put this at a perspective. the new search will take place in an area roughly the size of the state of west virginia. so a large area here. let's dig deeper with cnn aviation analyst and former inspector general of the department of transportation, mary schiavo. it's been a while! good to have you back. >> it has been. at least we have some news and gna new direction for the investigation. >> let's talk about it. does the new report rule out the plane's disappearance as an intentional act, now that they're talking about this as being on auto pilot? >> well, some people say that it doesn't, but the fact that it was on auto pilot for such a long period of time, they believe, and the fact that they now are pretty well convinced that the crew was unresponsive, it does not leave a lot of pilot suicide, hijacker, nefarious