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Again, more questions. one thing i think -- earlier today you asked me about passengers going in to the cockpit. it doesn't seem to match that scenario, because if the passengers had broken in to the cockpit, turned the acars off, turned the transpander off, you know, they're not going to make a normal radio call to air traffic control. >> so this heightens the alarm, does it not, in you? what does this new bit of information tell you, or indicate to you, or what other questions does it provoke for you? >> it actually scares me, and making me be more suspicious about the flight crew. >> that t...

So only two of them are on the same specific path that would head in the direction. this report that a pilot or someone may have intentionally taken the plane on a path, this kind of shows some other evidence because none of these are on a specific path. and at the end of the day if i'm a pilot i don't have to fly any of these routes, sean, all i have to do is put in a gps coordinate of where i want to go and i can turn in that direction. if i'm not playing by the rules that is what i'm going to do. >> it is mysterious that the pilot had control of the transponder, but this is way off cour cou...

Triple of course quadruple, if it went off the pilot would have been able to turn it back on via some battery pack system. >> if they're able. >> explain the payne system. he was in a lear jet if memory serves me right, we had fighter jets go up and actually they could see that everybody was already dead in the plane and they let it run out of fuel before the plane went down, right? >> right, they let it go because they could calculate exactly where it was going to come down. there was never a plan to shoot it down. you're right. >> right, but now on a boeing triple 7, was this the type of pla...

Good night" means? >> at that point in the flight, the plane is already on automatic pilot. that plane went on to automatic pilot probably a minute and a half if not sooner after it took off from kuala lumpur. it's basically -- it's like you leaving the -- one person's office and going into another person's office. because you've been told to go from a to b. you're literally saying, thanks very much. good night. and then the next transmission would normally have been the pilot, what we call the npf. the non-pilot flying, he would have switched his radio to vietnam's wavelength and calmed out, ...

These reports today? >> well, sean, i am digging on the reports that the pilot may have deliberately taken the plane off course. now, that is a reuters course, what it says basically is that the plane looked like it was flying on an aviation corridor. i'm putting up a map, the aviation map, we have this. this is an aviation chart, you can see all the lines and then the dots. those are way points. they help to define the different navigation routes. >> this would almost be like a highway in the sky? in other words, planes fly particular paths and then they follow the same paths and replay infor...