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The weather is going to continue to deteriorate and visibility will get lower and lower. that is going to be a significant problem. >> of course, despite the challenges presented by the weather, this search effort has been relentless. cnn's andrew stevens joining us there on the line from perth, australia. >> let's get more about that new information about the malaysian plane's movement. we know it turned to the left intentionally and it was not preprogrammed to the flight computer. also the plane then went down to 12,000 feet. will ripley joins us from kuala lumpur. this news about the possib...

Attorney for victims and families of transportation accidents. ric gillespie, airplane recovery clan, author of "amelia earhart," another mystery, kit darby, head of his own aviation consulting firm, an cnn's david soucy. the panel is familiar with this but viewers just joining might not have heard this new development from malaysian authorities this morning saying that as far as their analysis of the data is concerned, they saw no indication from the plane that that turn to the west away from its original course towards beijing from kuala lumpur was preprogrammed into that flight computer. th...

Endgame for a long time. until we have a better feel for where they wanted to end up and wanted to do, it's still going to be a mystery. >> this is for jeff weiss. this is from curious 2. the question, is do you think it may have been a dry run for a future plan? scary. lots have been made about that. is it possible that the flight computer was not in the pilot's control, that the change in the course was made by someone remotely to take over and crash a boeing 777 and then ditch the plane in the indian ocean where it would unlikely be found, jeff? >> that's a potential scenario. it seems very...

Or mechanical failure. let's look at the air france 447 board of inquiry. no distress call on that. it was found two years later. the reason was is because the aircraft got into a flight envelope that the pilots weren't aware of and it crashed without them being aware of what was going on. >> i want to ask about these 12 minutes when we learned that someone reprogrammed the flight computer in the last point of contact with air krafk control. is that ir a benign explanation for why they would change the route in the computer and say, all right, good night, 12 minutes later without telling anyon...

Sechl wwise, he has been breaking it down. >> there are a whole bunch of theories why this doesn't hold water. we had some breaking news involving whoever changed the waypoints in the flight computer did it 12 minutes before the acars system was turned off, before the co-pilot said good night in very calm tones. the change in course was not due to something that happened spontaneously, it wasn't a spontaneous reaction to some emergency in a cockpit. it had been planned out. just additional to that, that waypoint was beyond. they weren't aiming for them. you could easily enter that airport's lo...