CNN Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield March 18, 2014 16:01:00
Covering two and a quarter million square nautical miles, an area almost as big as the continental united states. the "new york times" is today reporting that there was a change of course programmed into the jet's navigation system, and more to the point, this information was sent to controllers by that acars system. that's the flight data communications system you've been hearing so much about. acars' last full transmission before it was disabled was at 1:07:00 a.m. 12 minutes before the co pilot's routine, "all right, good night" to the malaysian air traffic controllers. so how do these even...