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Great to have both of you with us. there's so much here to talk about. but when we put this reporting together, john, we have a plane that turned off of its flight path, started to switch direction dramatically, switch altitude dramatically and seemed to level out heading out. and then made a choice, i'm going to go left or right. when you put all that together, let's faulk about motive. who would want to do this or could this have happened in any way, shape or form with everybody on the plane being incapacitated or dead, the plane just kept flying? >> i think not. i think that's ruled out by ...

But what it does go to is as the u.s. intelligence community has looked at the technical data, they've asked themselves the question, how could it be? how could these changes have happened? what are the reasonable ways these very significant changes in flight path, the erratic part of the flight path, the altitude changes, what can we explain away? what can't we explain aerodyna things happen? they look at it. and increasingly over the last many hours as they have looked at it, it is becoming harder for them they say to write off the notion that there wasn't some human intervention in this. no...

>> i also want to bring in john hansman professor of aeronautics marry schiavo. professor hansman, all this new information, altitude changes, satellite pings, is there any chance in your mind what happened to the plane could still be mechanical? >> i think it's less likely. but there's still a chance there may have been some sort of progressive failure that was making it difficult for the airplane to fly in the flight control system. but the fact that if it's true that it took both -- i can understand why it would have trouble if the flight control system and pitch. so maybe climbing and desc...

Potential leak issue. what they would do is hold them aside because of everything that you could hold on to as a terrorist could prove to be a negotiating tool when it comes time to conducting an operation. what's odd though to us, i guess is, that there is no debris, have all of these ships out there looking. satellite imagery are and everything else. they is not found a floating seat cushion anywhere. and given the fact if it had plummeted the way altitude changes, plummeted in the ocean. it would be a massive debris field. an item, something out there. >> it may be a massive debris field. b...

Airlines flight 370. malaysia's prime minister is now saying this was no accident. calling did instead a deliberate act. he also says somebody purposefully disabled the plane's communication systems. and that the boeing 777 continued flying for more than six hours. maybe eight hours. after losing contact with the ground now this means the investigation is expanding. with a massive search effort. now focusing on two possible flight paths. looking as far in and out north as the border of kazakhstan and as far south as into the indian ocean and indonesia. molly has more. >> a deliberate act, lead...