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Why would an airliner not take a course deviation which might amount to a matter of a few minutes over a 12 hour flight and a little more fuel burn than go right through this zone? some airlines are smart and avoided it and others have flown through it. as a pilot i would never fly through there. >> miles o'brien, thank you. >> still "outfront," malaysia's plane is making the same journey tonight. a man is about to get on that flight from amsterdam to malaysia. and the 298 lives lost on flight 27, we remember the victims. you know.... there's a more enjoyable way to get your fiber. try phillip...

The good night call, obviously there was no duress signal given from the pilots to the people they were communicating with. and as my friend patrick and other pilots can tell you, there is a way to communicate duress not only with the transponder codes but also what you say verbally. so if in fact a decision had been made and they had been coerced and unwillingly turned the plane, they could have given a duress signal. they didn't do that. perhaps they did have other people on the airplane with them, they willfully made this course deviation and when we look at, well, who's suspicious, the mer...

To that waypoint and you would say confirm. the airplane is turn willing. >> the key point is that both of us would have been involved. pilot and co-pilot commit in making whatever course deviation. the question is, in the cockpit, were both the pilot and co-pilot involved? was it an emergency? could they have somehow had a gun to their heads being forced to do this? we don't know at this particular time. >> i would just like to ask mitchell more about this. so the co-pilot supposedly reprograms the plane's on board computer 12 minutes before he says, all right, good night and then they enter ...

Discussed. i guess one of the things that makes this such a compelling story is that everybody has one and part of what's gonna be the motive is something personal that every human can somehow connect with. hijacking, suicide, mechanical failure, all of these are on the table. based on your experience, what do you think happened? >> it is an epic mystery, coupled with a chaotic and incomplete release of information. throw in the 24-hour news cycle and i've got a lot of speculation in the mix. i don't want to get too deep into speculation, but let's just imagine for a minute that this turn bega...

Codes but also what you say verbally. so if in fact a decision had been made and they had been coerced and unwillingly turned the plane, they could have given a duress signal. they didn't do that. perhaps they did have other people on the airplane with them, they willfully made this course deviation and when we look at, well, who's suspicious, the mere act of taking and traveling with false passports certainly makes those people suspicious. >> okay. what about the fake or stolen passports? nobody is saying anything about it. could the plane have flown to iran? mary, could the plane have made i...