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And the turks, however, have released a map that it says is the flight pattern that this russian jet took, veering into turkish air space. veering right a ways in to turkish air space. so this is a noble fact, the fact that we haven't heard from the united states i think is a testament to how sensitive all of this is right now with french president hollande coming into washington theoretically on a mission to help build more of a consensus, more international coordination for the fight against isis. >> richard engel in istanbul, thank you very much. and breaking news from the nation's capita...

The question in who was behind that. there are a lot of warning signs along the way. the fact the trans ponder was turned off, the flight pattern changed abruptly. we have two iranians with stolen passport that's were not checked with interpol which we would have done in this country. one-way tickets bought with cash that the hijackers do, there are a lot of questions raised. one thing is very clear, chris. this was an intentional, deliberate act that unfortunately probably killed 239 people. >> as we said, they're now focusing on the crew and the passengers. any evidence that you have heard s...

A crew did exactly what their books told them to do, by descending and getting off the airway and that kind of coincides with that westerly heading that would have taken them to the indian ocean. now, if they were succumbed by smoke and fire, the airplane perhaps flew by itself for a while. so either exhausted its fuel supply, or crashed because the controls were perhaps melting. >> sure. now, it would make no sense to anybody like me, who doesn't have experience with this sort of thing, that the pilots would have programmed in these waypoints such that it's jog of a flight pattern would be of...

To determining the pat of the missing passengers and crew. investigators are now considering the possibility of mechanical failure while expanding their search for the missing plane. there's confusion over the jet's flight pattern right before ground control lost contact with the pilots. the malaysian military official was xwoetd kwoetd in the newspaper as saying the air force believed the jet abruptly changes position crossing back over the mainland of malaysia, heading into the strait of malack. that same official is now denying the report in the newspaper. well, a very public feud is brew...

This is a benign removal of data from the flight simulators and what are they looking for exactly on the hard drives? >> well, i think they're looking for anything that might be nefarious. for one thing, if you look at was there some type of information where the pilot practiced this maneuver, this particular left turn that's become so critical in this investigation that was made right when the plane fell off the radar. so if that type of a flight pattern was on there, possibly that could lead to nefarious activity. it may be not. but they're looking for essentially anything that might indicat...