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Automatic pilot it will fly straight to its destination. the transponder usually -- this is not a plane known for its mechanical failure. the track record is impeccable. and then it gets off course then the changes in altitude. that is not going to happen on a flight that is on automatic pilot. is it? >> right, but we're trianulating. we don't really know what happened. we have the -- >> again if it is on automatic pilot. the motion on the airplane, or -- >> sean, the problems we don't yet know that. all we're dealing with is a plane that was not trying to communicate, again that is the import...

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...

"cnn newsroom" starts right now. snooze -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hello, everyone. i'm fredricka whitfield. wack to the cnn are in maria. brand new information about the events leading up to the disappearance of flight 370. here's what we know right now. malaysia's prime minister says the cockpit's signoff to ground control which was "all right. good night." was said after the plane's communication system was disabled. more on what all that could mean straight ahead, and malaysia's prime minister also says the evidence points to the likelihood that someone inside the plane delibe...

Believed the plane crashed when it lost contact right here. that there was a catastrophic event, that the plane depressurized. after three seconds of decompression, you're asleep, and shortly after that it would go into the drink unless it was on auto pilot. we know it was not on auto pilot. so the thing that comes together here, it is the thing that is most unnerving. >> all right, we'll have my interview with the reporter who spoke extensively and exclusively with the family of american philip woods. he was the one american on board the missing malaysian jetliner, stay with us, we'll be join...

The plane has been. there are other things that happened sean, pilot incapacitation -- >> wouldn't it be more likely, the pilots, once they go wheels up, they're boom, the wheels are up, they're there in case something wrong happens? right? >> in a lot of cases. >> you want it on auto pilot because it is a much more precise way of flying and certainly you will save a lot of fuel and time with that. so you put it on automatic pilot. yes, the fact that it went off track, the transponders were off, if nothing else that has to be a suspicion. who was in the cockpit until you get the voice recorder...