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Eskalatory actions we continue to see from russia. however, we don't have enough information with the specific incident and that's why i'm not going to be able to provide you any confirmation of details and i don't want to speculate on who is to blame or the root causes when we don't have that information at this point. >> speaking of the climate. the climate of conflict that's escalated there and obviously led to this tragedy. >> well, again, we don't know that at this point in time because we don't know what the causes are or who was responsible for the plane going down. >> and what, if any,...

Numbers, all they do is put in the code, no reason to land. >> that retransmits data back to the air traffic control. they tell you what code to put in. we routinely change them in flight. >> all right, i hope i'm pronouncing this right, how do we know the flight was reprogrammed? the data transmitter. >> you have various ways of actually putting information into the computer. we talked about the way points. but as you put a way point, you may want a diversion that is in vietnam instead of malaysia because it is closer. if you put it in it doesn't necessarily mean it is going on the route. it ...

The code, no reason to land. >> that retransmits data back to the air traffic control. they tell you what code to put in. we routinely change them in flight. >> all right, i hope i'm pronouncing this right, how do we know the flight was reprogrammed? the data transmitter. >> you have various ways of actually putting information into the computer. we talked about the way points. but as you put a way point, you may want a diversion that is in vietnam instead of malaysia because it is closer. if you put it in it doesn't necessarily mean it is going on the route. it doesn't mean that the flight di...

And where was he practicing? that might give us a clue where the plane is. >> why did he delete them? is that standard operating procedure? now, bute f.b.i. was looking at they're not. meanwhile, breaking news last night, if you saw it during the kelly file, we told you famously now that the copilot said just before the handoff to the next country, he said, all right, good night. he said that to one of the air traffic controllers. now we know that apparently his airplane was programmed to make that big turn 12 minutes before he talked to the flight controller. so in other words, the copilot co...

Many key strokes, okay, so let's say it is x, y, z, way point. would you turn a wheel -- >> under this situation i would be on auto pilot so i would do exactly that. >> to program it into the computer next to you that basically tells the auto pilot what you need to do. and what he seems to be reporting is only an experienced pilot with the triple 7 could do that. you agree with that? >> i agree, but i'm going somewhere with this. this could have been a diversion way point -- >> way point is a point of destination? >> it is an imaginary point in the sky which is on a route. but they may have be...