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This was about security and work. >> right. >> it's not to push people in a terror, right? >> it certainly was. certain direction. it's to celebrate the fact that we're talking about two problems we're all figuring it out. for two department of homeland and we're all work very, very security system -- computer hard. i know, for example, i'm more systems, as you say, at airports exhausted on a monday morning across the country causing after a weekend home with the kids than i am on a friday delays for thousands and thousands of passengers, many of afternoon. i work really hard during the them s...

Took control of a commercial flight system. according to the fbi, roberts told investigators that all he does is reach under one of the passenger seats to the seat electronics box, plugs his laptop in and hacks into the plane's entertainment system. that allows him to connect to the flight and navigation systems on the plane. the fbi seized his electronics in april after he tweeted about possibly activating the oxygen masks on a flight from denver to chicago. before that roberts went to the the fbi himself to tell him about the vulnerabilities he found on these planes. >> that's amazing. i don...

Airplane was not designed to do and also a lack of plon it moni >> the ntsb adds that they did not understand the complexity of the flight system. >> an executive of malaysia airlines said the thought that many fears about flight 370 and the 290 souls on board could take decades before it is located. the air lines commercial chief told the british telegraph quote, i believe it is somewhere in the south indian ocean. the wreckage could be spread over a big area and there are mountains and canyons in that ocean. i think it could take a really long time to find. we're talking decades. >> joining ...

The airplane for four years and now retired said he's never been down there. >> is that right? >> because there's no real need for us to be down there. there's one circumstance that i would go down there and that's simply after an incident there's a diagram on where to pull a particular circuit breaker like what's being pointed out here. >> if there was a fire on board or smoke, is that part of the procedure to turn circuit breakers off? turn off the in flight system, to turn off the acars? >> it wouldn't be to go down those steps to do it. it would be something that's done in the cockpit. we ...

It begs the question, the reprogramming of the computer, does it mean foul play in the cockpit? >> well, not necessarily. if there's a developing problem on board or a medical issue of a passenger being ill, which is less likely in this scenario, if there is liking of that, that the pilots may preprogram the flight system, fms as it's known for diversion, in this case, back to kuala lumpur. but it could also mean something less sensible. and would fit in with those who believe this aircraft might have been taken by force or hijacked in some way or diverted deliberate by by the pilots themselve...