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Senior officials leaking this information, that's really upset the malaysians to begin with, but this information really isn't vetted. the fact that this turn was supposedly conducted or at least initiated and executed by the fms system, it could have been done also by just the autopilot head itself. the fms system is the guidance system. you program in your route of flight and in this case it would have been to beijing. it would have had to have been reprogrammed and executed for this turn to occur. the turn was only about a 20 degree bank. that would have been a standard bank rate for an aut...

The malaysians to begin with, but this information really isn't vetted. the fact that this turn was supposedly conducted or at least initiated and executed by the fms system, it could have been done also by just the autopilot head itself. the fms system is the guidance system. you program in your route of flight and in this case it would have been to beijing. it would have had to have been reprogrammed and executed for this turn to occur. the turn was only about a 20 degree bank. that would have been a standard bank rate for an automated turn, whether it's the autopilot or the fms directing th...

Answers. joining us to help try, greg feith. mr. feith, thank you for being here. >> thank you, rachel. >> i'm obviously a total layman when it comes to these matters. we're all trying to understand these things. does it make sense to you that the last burst of data, at 1:07 a.m., that acars data from the plane, would have included this information about the planned route that the plane was programmed to turn? >> what we don't know, rachel, is the entire route that was planned in there. typically, the flight crew when they're preflighting the airplane and loading their original flight plan is,...

For which we should hopefully with able to get empirical answers. joining us to help try, greg feith. mr. feith, thank you for being here. >> thank you, rachel. >> i'm obviously a total layman when it comes to these matters. we're all trying to understand these things. does it make sense to you that the last burst of data, at 1:07 a.m., that acars data from the plane, would have included this information about the planned route that the plane was programmed to turn? >> what we don't know, rachel, is the entire route that was planned in there. typically, the flight crew when they're pre-flighti...

For which we should hopefully with able to get empirical answers. joining us to help try, greg feith. mr. feith, thank you for being here. >> thank you, rachel. >> i'm obviously a total layman when it comes to these matters. we're all trying to understand these things. does it make sense to you that the last burst of data, at 1:07 a.m., that acars data from the plane, would have included this information about the planned route that the plane was programmed to turn? >> what we don't know, rachel, is the entire route that was planned in there. typically, the flight crew when they're pre-flighti...