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Back to malaysia's east coast, instead of its intended destination in china. at 1:07 a.m., the plane's data communication system the acars system, sent out its last automated message, they are programmed to fire off every 30 minutes, what we did not know until moments ago is at that time the plane had already changed course, heading west away from the intended destination of beijing, all without a word from the co pilot to control. he spoke with them at 1:19 said nothing about it. again, this is a full 12 minutes before the person sent out the last calm message. all right, good night. . scott ...

United states that have a desire to move their people around. so this airplane was designed from the beginning to be maintained and used in countries like china and other countries where they don't have the technical skills and they don't understand english very well. so it's really -- it's almost like a computer for a multinational audience. >> and les abend is with us as well. when we see this it's fascinating to see what it looks like, most of us have never seen on a plane before. you fly 777s, you know the plane very well. we still don't know the circumstances of why that acars system or h...

Startling, but it's also true that we need to make sure that that time line is factual, and that the turn was commenced. the actual turn, not just the programs of the fms, that turn that par in advance of the communication, even so, that doesn't leave me convince d -- there couldn't have been something else going on there, aside from the idea of a hija hijacking. again, to let me finish my point. communicating with the ground is really last on the priorities list when year dealing with an in flight emergency. >> i understand if they were dealing with an emergency, they have to do -- >> they ha...

Does someone on the ground know that that's happening? >> well, if they're talking about it, as they are, then, of course, they know. and they would have known through the acars system which transmits the programmed route back to the base station. and on the basis of that, they're sable to say 12 minutes before this thing was reprogrammed. i must admit that it is a great mystery. and i've been talking to many people in the industry and listening, of course, to those pundits on air. and no one really has a -- you know, a good idea what's happened here. it doesn't fit. your standard aircraft inc...

Change over the acars system. how do we know this, don? because of the 12 minutes. remember, this is a timeline business. at 1:19 there was the last "all right, good night." go back 12 minutes and we're at 1:07 or earlier and that's when we got the last acars messages. so that, i'm guessing, is how they knew about this reprogramming. if the report is correct. but i want to emphasize. >> all right. >> we need official confirmation about the reprogramming. >> all right. more developing news. i want to get to jim sciutto now. officials reviewed the cockpit conversations today. what did they find?...