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At 1:07 a.m., the acars communication system was transmitting data that this plane had already made its turn, is that our information? >> that's what i understand as well, megyn. >> had already made its turn then that would suggest that this co pilot knew a lot more than he was communicating to ground control and places a whole new spotlight on him. >> no, absolutely. this was programmed, in we don't know when it was programmed in, if it was before the flight took off. but at 1:07 we have a new flight path. it's clear whoever put this in, had plans to take this aircraft west very early on in t...

Now investigators have to focus in on him, his background, his capabilities, his systems knowledge of the airplane because whoever was flying this airplane and disabled at least the acars system had to have a high level of knowledge, not just your normal pilot systems knowledge. >> greg i want to be sure that i understand exactly what you're saying because investigators are still looking at passengers on board and the crew, but you seem to be really honing in on the pilots and suggesting it really might be one of the two of them. is that what you're saying? >> i am. because if you start lookin...

>> reporter: you're right, initially they believed the last transition where the co-pilot said all right good night happened after the acars system was turned off. but now they're saying they really don't though when it was shut off. it's been over a week, but still no closer to figuring out what happened or why. they are searching a massive am of space within this very big a arc. now they say chinese are searching the land over the northern corridor. without any real answers, there has been a ton of speculation from leading theorys that it crashed somewhere in the very deep independent krian ...

Good day to you again. how did authorities determine the so-called nucor dors and how much does this information bring us to finding out what happened? >> it starts to give investigators an idea to where to look. as you'll see in a moment, it's still a vast area. they're working with hard facts. i can take a look here, we'll auk look together at the map. as we look at this map, okay, this is a hard fact, okay. they know the area where they lost contact with the plane and they know to the malacca strait was an area where they started to search. now another hard fact that they actually have is t...

Officials involved in the investigation, they say in the first 26 minutes of the flight the pilots were already changing the flight path. so what we originally thought the plane had gone up, flying the original course to beijing then signing off with air traffic control and then making the westerly turn, we now know within the first 26 minutes they had re-programmed the flight plan and were already starting to turn west far before they even signed off with air traffic control. >> so the pilots had intentionally changed their path, but the reason why remains a mystery. malaysian authorities rev...