daily beast" and kit darby, former airline pilot, retired airline pilot himself. i wonder if we could begin with this new information from the malaysian authorities. there is no indication at least of preprogramming of that turn to the west. doesn't mean it wasn't done on purposish at least preprogramming. i wonder if i could start with you, kit, as a retired commercial airline pilot yourself. the turn could still be dlibd, of course, even if it was not preprogrammed. it could still be dlieliberate d under control even if it hadn't been plugged into the flight management system. >> at this altitude, the pilot is almost always on autopilot. i won't say it can't be felony by hand but the air is thin, you're going fast, so it's on autopilot by design.