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Captain would have to go and use the bathroom giving him time to change the flight course. did he make his terrible decision in the spur of a moment? another question even though this area plane was shredded like confetti is there a way to retrieve the texts, e-mails, the videos that passengers likely took and wrote in the last terrible minutes? here's one more. what's the duty of a mental health professional to report on a troubled pilot? our experts are here to break it down but first, to the very latest of what's happening right now on the ground. cnn's frederick is in germany with more. i ...

An alternate airport to use in case of emergency. what was flight 370's alternate airport and could that have affected the flight course? mary? >> the alternate airport has to be an airport kind of near where you are going. in other words, if beijing had an emergency or you couldn't land. the alternate airport is where you would land near beijing if you don't couldn't get in though airport. it shouldn't have affected the flight or caused the flight to go on the path that it did. every flight has to have it and they have to have an alternate airport for their flight plan and enough fuel to get ...

On an oceanographic survey. and it is equipped with some of the most high-tech equipment that there is available to try and verify these pings and to try to map the bed of the ocean where this missing malaysian airliner could be. it will be a big contrast with the kind of equipment the chinese say they identify these apparent pings with over the course of the past several days or so. we'll see whether they are able to verify. again what the chinese say they detected. >> jim clancy, you have been in kuala lumpur since day one of the investigation. malaysian authorities just today confirmed they...

>> most likely yes, unless there was another in between waypoint which i have not heard of. most likely as soon as he hit that way pointpoint it's starting to make that nice slow curve to the west. these are not dramatic turns. >> is it your information that the plane had turned west and was heading west instead of northeast than it was supposed to, was that different from the report that had been generated 30 minutes earlier at 12:47 a.m.? >> we don't know what the flight plan was other than it was the traditional route up to beijing, the next report shows it has a new flight path. >> when th...

There was no chatter coming up. there's been no talk about it. so if this is terrorism it's new and very different. could that be the case? yeah, of course. but to your point there's nothing there to back it up. >> you did some excellent reporting on the reprogramming of the flight course, if you will. when was that -- do you know when that was reprogrammed. >> shortly before they lost contact with the ground. >> what does that mean in terms of this investigation? >> what it does mean is that whoever programmed that had to have known how to operate inside a cockpit like that. that skrould, the...