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Thing. perhaps a mid-air explosion. if there's any microscopic chemical debris on it or any crazing of the metal. however, the facts, if they've been reported correctly to date with regard to the early flight pattern of the aircraft when it first deviated from its flight plan, made the 180-degree turn, overflew malaysia, made a right-hand turn left-hand turn and then proceeded to the southern indian ocean, that suggests to me that this is a manmade event. that someone reprogrammed the flight computer and subsequently there's a nefarious intent here. >> when you look at it the debris itself was...

It and we will bring it to you live. also this morning, disturbing new details about that co-pilot that deliberately crashed a germanwings jet into the french alps back in march. he actually practiced the move on the same day as that doomed flight. according to a new report by french investigators he rehearsed a controlled decent on an outbound flight on the same day of the crash, and yes, there were passengers on board. here is what he did five times during that particular trip. look at the red line. he entered descent information to 100 feet to make sure the flight computer would accept it...

Wouldn't worry about altitude he would worry about attitude how stable is his airplane in terms of his horizon. >> what do you make jeff? >> well airbuses are built with something called envelope protection. when you're flying them around normally the plane will not let you put it into a situation beyond its flight envelope or to stall, for instance. you can get into situations -- this happened with air france 447 where if the sensors get clogged for instance and the computer isn't able to make sense of what it's doing it will turn itself off and hand itself over to the pilot. in a normal situ...

Can put it to a waypoint. there are a range of ways of entering information into the flight computer. >> or you can log it directly on its current path. >> yes. >> the lady in the back. >> the two summations obviously -- were they able to finish their job, or will they finish their job before august? and after august when you contract maybe a commercial on the water surge, what's next, and what's the capacity of that future vehicle. how many square kilometers will it cover for -- >> the answer to the first of those questions is, that we will be progressively mapping -- it will take us at least...

Range, which is why they think they have a strong lead here. and this is really the strongest lead that we have because we're just minutes away from entering day 35, john. still not one single piece of physical debris from this plane despite all the daily flights that are emp issing for it. >> no debris. that is one of the great mysteries here. but every time they get an additional ping under water there, it narrow that search even more. will ripley live for us in perth, australia, with new details. appreciate it. ahead for us at this hour, the malaysians say they think the plane dipped to b...