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Co-pilot who uttered the words, all right, good night, the last words spoken to the ground controllers. but the airline ceo says it remains unclear whether those words were spoken before or after the jet's transponder system was switched off. that's an important detail we're working on today. previously, the officials said those last words came after the system was turned off. we have more on this from our los angeles news room. william, what are the meanings of those words, and what are we learning now about these pilots? >> well, the exact sequence is imprecise. what we do know is someone de...

Had already been programmed into the plane's computer before the crew in the cockpit made their last voice contact with air traffic controllers when they said good night. that hard left turn, what was almost a u-turn off the plane's planned course had already been executed as an instruction to the plane while the pilots were still in contact with the ground controllers. yet the pilots said nothing about it to ground control. the reason this timing can be pieced together, the reason we know this timing of events is apparently because there was a burst of electronic data from flight 370 26 minut...

From beijing, that instruction had already been programmed into the plane's computer before the crew in the cockpit made their last voice contact with air traffic controllers when they said good night. that hard left turn, what was almost a u-turn off the plane's planned course had already been executed as an instruction to the plane while the pilots were still in contact with the ground controllers. yet the pilots said nothing about it to ground control. the reason this timing can be pieced together, the reason we know this timing of events is apparently because there was a burst of electroni...