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This solidly, they got it. some of the other things; you're right, it was will of the wisp information and speculation, and so forth, but this one you can hang your coat on that. >> so regarding how they came to this conclusion, take us through just quickly here the process of determining where the flight was and that it was incapable or did not have enough fuel to make it to any land around there. >> well, so you've got this acars system in the cockpit, which sends data down, it's a messaging system so you can message back and forth to your company or controllers. it also sends down data abou...

This came from. authorities said today the last transmission from the plane at 1:07 a.m. the night it disappeared showed nothing unusual and the plane was still heading for beijing. that appears to undermine the theory the plane's computer he was reprogrammed to take a different route. i'm joined by jim clancy live in kuala lumpur. the latest from the capital of malaysia. as we hear that word from malaysian investigators about the last communication, no evidence of preprogramming of the flight plan and westward turn how important is that, potential development, in terms of what caused the disa...

And the acars system but stops short of destroying the aircraft or the autopilot. so you have to have the perfect fire. >> fascinating. thank you. i want to get back now to my panel. this one is for you, tim tilmon from derek. he says do pilots know their flight schedule out a month or it is a routine schedule for the pilots? >> every airline is a little different, but most airlines give you a bid sheet a month in advance, and you just use your seniority to achieve a line of flying that you want to fly for that following month. if you're senior enough, you can get that flying and it's pretty w...

>> differ between the acars system. >> it is nothing anything in the cockpit. not like a cctv camera in the cockpit that they tape over to avoid them being spotted. the greatest thing a hijacker would be worried about would be the satellite would somehow see what was going on. that's not the case with the acars at all. >> so far and maybe i'm cherry picking from the columns that i read from you, you are not casting aspersions on the pilots. >> in this case, it is swung to the technical. what i have been trying to do is pull it back all week and say we need to interrogate all of the technical p...

That's a new development. that actually could play into the theory there was this spontaneous explosion and maybe that's why the acars system was left on. maybe it wasn't exploded. i still don't understand, bob, why, and this is what he said, why there was a deliberate turning off of the transponder. not once but twice. no mayday call, and that deliberate turn west after they said good night very calmly. that does not add up in the minds of pilots. >> the other thing that happened is they looked into the background of virtually everybody on the plane, most of whom were chinese, and they found ...