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The malaysia airlines flight that just disappeared with 239 people on board. there are new clues this morning in this investigation, new reports that the plane's turn off course was preprogrammed into the flight computer. the big question, was that done on the ground or was it done in the air? now malaysian officials say it is not clear if the final words spoken by the co-pilot to air traffic controller came before or after the plane's data reporting system was shut down. the malaysians themselves have changed the timeline here. the focus of the search now in the waters off australia, an enorm...

A deliberate action by someone on board that plane. now, that could mean a whole range of different things. there are so many questions about what that might mean. i want to bring in a guest right now, steve wallace is with us. steve is an aviation expert. he has looked into this kind of thing before. steve, let me ask you this. you're former director of the faa office of investigations. steve joins us from washington. steve, one of the things we've been discussing all morning is the flight computer. there are reports this morning that it was programmed on this course that took it away from be...

Co-pilot or someone with the knowledge of the pilot, how to fly that 777. burning questions remain who exactly and why. the night flight 370 vanished. someone inside the cockpit, a u.s. official tells cnn, programmed the jet's computer to leave its planned route to beijing and head west. the new details corroborates the leading theory of u.s. investigators that the plane's sudden change in course was a deliberate act by the pilots or someone else on board with extensive knowledge of flying. today, investigators revealed, however, searches of the flight computer and e-mails as well as the fligh...

Idealogical act of protest? take a listen. >> malaysian government releasing to us the information they have about those two pilots. then we can build a case for if it's jihadists, international network links or another situation, a suicide or personal derangement. >> that, harris, seems to be the main inquiry right now. >> what are experts saying about what might have been happening on the flight deck? we have been able to put more facts and actual pieces of this together. >> yeah, it's about the banking of the plane to the left, that narrow pivotal moment, it seems, according to investigator...

Put into the computer, if a paper flight plan given to the crew in kuala lumpur, flight plan uploaded by malaysian air operations into the flight computer, onboard the aircraft, you read back from if computer to the paper flight plan, all the way points, all the distances and headings, so it is checked off that the flight plan on the aircraft matches the paper flight plan that's been agreed to by air traffic control and airline. you check that off. to me what it says is that when that airplane made that left turn, somebody deliberately turned that aircraft. the erratic behavior, again, as i sa...