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Sticking to the known facts rather than all of the hypotheticals that are coming through. and the malaysian government has been slow to release the facts and contradictory throughout the course of the investigation. what is it that we know? we know that the specific flight track that the aircraft took. we know that that information must have been enter flood the navigation system known as the flight management system. we know that had to be done by human hands. the question is -- was it the pilots or was it a passenger who breached the cockpit? the co-pilot had a history of allowing passengers...

Unique circumstances that we have in this situation. >> greg feith, what stands out as a possible indication of what happened, the most clear signal? >> well, mika, it's evident that, you know, early on when the flight track changed, as soon as that airplane diverted from its track towards beijing, there was something more than just some sort of mechanical problem. there was enough data for us to know that that airplane was intentionally turned and it went on a different flight track and now affiliate radar coverage has lost that aircraft as a primary satellite off pings we know that aircraft ...

Deliberately diverted. based on -- you've been following this as closely as anyone. do you agree with that assessment? >> steve, i've been talking about that since last week. when you look at the official information where we only had one flight track based on civilian radar, there was still a number of possibilities, whether it was a mechanical problem with the aircraft, some sort of explosive decompression that may have rendered the cockpit crew and the passengers. but when they gave the radar up to show there was a track to the left for at least an hour, to me that said this was an intentio...

In the south china sea of a plane on fire. i mean, when you look at this set of information, what do you make of it? >> it's curious that this information with this one eyewitness who saw what he believed was a burning aircraft is now coming forward five plus days into the investigation. >> right. >> where was this information early on? it was also cure about the flight track that the military released and basically indicated that they confirmed that this airplane had in fact made a semi-u-turn and now are backing off. but my sources have said that that is pretty much valid radar data, and if ...

They've been pretty much up til now searching op the east side -- on the east side, the original expected flight track of the plane. that would be a monumental development here. >> right. that would tell them an awful lot. now, there's a lot of things in the sky that are keeping strack of these planes -- track of these planes. there's military radar, weather radar and faa radar. each of these types of radar rotate at a different time frame and they're in different locations, and that's why it's taken a little bit longer to get some of this radar information out of there, because the investigat...