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Number of waypoints just as a just in case, and that would explain why it is that they made those erratic movements. >> that's correct. they could have done that. or simply use a heading mode, which is the fastest and the simplest way to turn the aircraft from the navigation route that they -- the original route. we're told to -- if we need to do that in a hurry, you basically just push one button, heading select, and turn to heading to whatever you want it to be. in this case, would have been heading 270, which is westerly heading. and this also explains perhaps why there was no communication...

Number of waypoints just as a just in case, and that would explain why it is that they made those erratic movements. >> that's correct. they could have done that. or simply use a heading mode, which is the fastest and the simplest way to turn the aircraft from the navigation route that they -- the original route. we're told to -- if we need to do that in a hurry, you basically just push one button, heading select, and turn to heading to whatever you want it to be. in this case, would have been heading 270, which is westerly heading. and this also explains perhaps why there was no communication...

Instruments didn't read the right way. >> all possible. >> and we're 12 days into this investigation. >> here is why i suspect that may not have happened because it went so far off course. now, according to reports -- >> we don't know it went off course. >> we do know -- >> there was a way point that was put into the computer system. it was not put into the root, or we don't know it was put into the root. there were two separate things. >> all the evidence suggests it went way off course, that the transponders were turned off and the flight paths were altered by computer. >> humbly, i do not s...

The debris field electronically -- they can send a robot down there and hopefully recover the black box. that might tell them something. in the case of twt, it told us nothing. all the normal activity stopped, boom, it was over with. then if you've got to recover the plane you're talking about a major, major, major operation. >> this is 100 times deeper than what you were talking about with yours. if it was as simple as some have suggested -- a fire which would have cut off the transponder and acars and could haveç prevented the pilots from radioing for hefp, would that be -- radioing for he...

Be able to tell by the movement on the top of the water as to whether it's one piece or many pieces strung together. >> and david gallo, on the air france investigation, from the time the debris was found five days after the crash to actually recovering the black boxes two years later, in 13,000 feet of water, david gallo, what was the next step? from finding that initial debris to the day, you know -- and how often were authorities out there on the water? >> well, it wasn't -- the debris was found five days later, and i believe it was about a two-week period where pieces of the plane were sti...