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On the screen. all these triangles are waypoints. i'm going to type this in here. uvuno. okay. then i just put it into where the waypoint i should be going to is. it asked me to confirm the coordinates. i do that. i execute with the execute button here. you can see now the airplane is taking this course off my regular path. >> so just a series of eight or nine key strokes that will send this plane on a complete areally different course. it can do it in the way the passengers aren't necessarily going to feel a really sharp turn. it's going to gradually get this plane on a totally different cour...

Search. the u.s. is scaling back its role as other countries help malaysia criticized continuously for response and information it's handing out. on top of that, more reporting from the new york times seems to confirm the hard turn the plane made toward the west was deliberate. here's a little more. >> new this morning, growing suspicion around flight 370's pilots. the new york times citing unnamed senior officials saying someone likely programmed the computer from the cockpit. this person possibly typing seven or eight key strokes in the system to divert the aircraft off course to beijing. >>...

Not just the airplane but electronics in general. you'd almost have to be electronics engineer to disable acars. you could reduce functions, simplify functions, get it back to raw data. you couldn't completely shut it down unless you had -- almost to the point of knowing how it's designed. >> that's why investigators don't know whether somebody had the sophistication and disabled it or something else was going on in the plane that took out the system. fair assumption? >> yes, that's a fair assumption. the latter seems a lot less likely. it's so sophisticated, so many backups. it's designed to ...

Again -- sorry -- go ahead. >> it's in terms of keeping this, what we believe the sequence of events were. transponder is off. one line of communication is gone. that's why the tower isn't hearing anything. they make the adjustment, recorded by the acars system. it later goes off for some reason. does that give you insight as to whether they were dealing with a situation or did this intentionally? does this help or no? >> does the course change indicate they did it intentionally? >> that they were dealing with a situation they couldn't control like the transponder went off by itself or are sys...

I don't know who, why, what the result was. >> it's an important thing to end on to tell you i read your account of this. you said prior to this event 14 years ago, you were a pilot. your chief job was getting the plane safely to its destination, delivering cargo. you hadn't given much thought to the human cargo on board. that day changed it forever for you did it not? >> i don't remember saying that, but yes, of course it did. as we were plunging earth wards, i felt the enormous responsibility of 400 lives there. i also then added to that when i remembered family were on board. i was angry th...