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Covering two and a quarter million square nautical miles, an area almost as big as the continental united states. the "new york times" is today reporting that there was a change of course programmed into the jet's navigation system, and more to the point, this information was sent to controllers by that acars system. that's the flight data communications system you've been hearing so much about. acars' last full transmission before it was disabled was at 1:07:00 a.m. 12 minutes before the co pilot's routine, "all right, good night" to the malaysian air traffic controllers. so how do these even...

>> yeah. so les abend is here, and captain abend, i'm sure that looks extraordinarily familiar to you as where marty and mitch are sitting. it doesn't make sense to me as a novice here that anybody would have some kind of a nefarious plan to hijack or take a plane off course for bad reasons and then actually fly established routes and established waypoints. if that's your intention, why are you following the super highways everyone else is on? >> well, i don't think -- it's not necessarily following the super highways. there's just one waypoint that if the information is correct that was enter...

Person -- especially when we fly with them on a frequent basis. we get to know that individual. and if something is going wrong with their life. and i can guarantee you that, you know, my particular airline at this point has 85 people. 8,500 people on the seniority list. not including -- by these are wonderful -- they're wonderful people. >> last quick comment. >> but what's your threshold for when you would make an anonymous report about a fellow person in the cockpit? >> good one. >> what's that? >> my threshold is if their job performance is being affected. something is not -- they're havin...

And that could have been flight 370, but this time, it was heading southwest. this does support what we already knew, that that plane had diverted from its northeast path to beijing, taking a very sharp left it turn and heading southwest in the direction towards the indian ocean. but after that, it's all a mystery. sadly, it seems to just remain a mystery day after day. joining me to talk about how this new radar data may hp to unravel the mystery, this boeing 777 pilot knows a lot. les abend has been helping us navigate through this. first off, i don't know if you can answer this or not. but ...

Have basically a stricter regime than elsewhere. and there's a lot of discrepancies in that still. that's a big concern. >> want to get captain abend to weigh in on this. after 9/11, i worried deeply that there could be sleeper cells out there, amassing hours, so that ultimately, in their flying career, they could get ahold of the controls of large aircraft like these. is that so implausible? >> not anymore. it requires quite a vetting process for anybody that's not domestic resident in the united states, to get that kind of training in airline type equipment. you know, that could do any sort ...