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We had mentioned about the acars system, for example, it was nefariously turned off before the communication, that's not true, it was transmitted as normal at 1:07 just like it was supposed to do, and then the transponders being turned off. there's no physical record of the fact they were turned off, from the cockpit you can put them in stand by, but you can't turn them off. i feel after 200 miles out, the radar's pinging, it may not have received the signal that far out to say here i am, here's my information. >> does the conclusion by the british firm that has come up with this late de data ...

Which got the information from the plane, which is not communicating from anyone, but got interrogation from the plane's acars system, so they can pin point it's in the south indian ocean and know there's no chance it went to land anywhere. >> what would make it go south, what would make it make that turn? >> yeah, and that is just nobody can guess, really. but i do think that enough passed digging into the pilot and copilot, it's slow work and will need to go on with that, but i wonder if everyone was too quick to dismiss the idea of some other catastrophe happening in the plane, mechanical p...

Situation that required a return back to origin? but now you couple that with the intentionally disabled of the transponders, that's not a normal act. no pilot would ever have a reason to turn off the transponder in-flight. >> anyone planning to disable the transponder and acars system would have to have an in-depth understanding of the ash craft. whoever altered the aircraft had to use a computer located between the pilot and co-pilot chairs in the cockpit! what are the chances that someone other than the pilot or co-pilot changed that course? reprogrammed the auto-350i lot? >> to reprogram t...

We obviously don't know why this occurred. we know the turn was real. >> we know the acars stopped transmitting. for six or seven hours. >> 1:07 was the last transmission. >> we know the turn is real, because of the evidence this morning. we know the transponder was off. why? because it never came back on again. we now know the route and somebody would have seen it. we know it went southwest back across malaysia. we know it was tracked by military radar. sources have said it went down to 12,000 feet. we haven't had that confirmed. >> if that is true, that does indicate some sort of manual cont...

The company search has grown from 18 to 26. >> the companies involved in this investigation, they're telling me at least within the first 26 minutes of that flight, the pilots were already changing the flight path. so what we originally thought was the plane had gone up, basically flying towards us on its original course to beijing and then signing off with air traffic control and then making a westerly turn, we now know within those first 26 minutes, they were in contact with air traffic control. >> so the pilots had intentionally changed their path, but the reason why remains a mystery. asia...