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Were 17 days ago. hold on. something new, though, spotted in the water. french officials say one of their satellites picked up what might be debris in the southern indian ocean. airborne search crews are heading to that area to check that out. the malaysian government today cast doubt on the theory that someone punched new flight directions into the airplane in mid-flight. they say the last communication from the flight deck showed a normal programmed route to beijing. flight 370's intended destination. that brings us to the question. question number one in your week ahead. how does malaysia's...

>> at least that's where they're putting most of their assets. the united states, only the single aircraft. i don't think we should put our eggs in one basket. we have to look at these other areas of the world. this aircraft was on a different flight path when we last saw it. >> how do you hide a 777, though? >> don't think you do. certainly, you don't do it without help. >> suggesting that another government may have been involved if this thing is on dry land? >> we'd have to believe there was some kind of mechanical difficulty, a natural event of an aircraft, we'd have to believe everything ...

Was this belief that the malaysians had data that indicated there was a preprogramming or reprogramming of the flight computers that took it away from the course to beijing somewhere over the gulf of thailand and sent it on the westward course that we have now charted. now, it's not clear why that information was relayed to u.s. authorities last week but we do know from malaysian authorities today that everything was normal in the computer system and that the acars system, the system that relays that system back to home base didn't indicate anything was amiss on the way to beijing. >> is there...

Australia, but, you know, that's based on primary radar returns which are kind of sketchy and in marsat, satellite return from a turned off communications device called the acars on the aircraft which is not designed to track an aircraft. we have sketchy information to identify this location. >> and you make a good point. another reminder to our viewers, though, most of the assets are now focused in the southern indian ocean marks lay shan authorities made a point saying the corridor search area still open and kazakhstan has offered their air base as a central point for searching that area. th...

New details from malaysian authorities on the last communication from flight 370's acars system. 1:07 a.m., last transmission, shows nothing unusual, the original routing to beijing. that undermines the theory that someone may have preprogrammed in a new route before that last acars transmission. our martin savidge live in a flight simulator. flight trainer next to him. a familiar thought we've seen you in. i wonder, martin, if you could help explain to our viewers the significance of the new information about the last acars transmission and sequencing as it would play out in the cockpit. >> i...