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Accomplish, are you trying to accomplish turning the aircraft with a heading mode or how are you trying to turn the aircraft, whether the plane is on an autopilot or not, it's not hard to learn. so anybody with basic flying skills or a little bit of training could have maneuvered the aircraft to make a turn. that doesn't mean that the person that tried to do this had very good piloting skills. >> thank you very much to michael weiss and martin savidge. as you can see, there are still so many more questions that some of the reporting that is coming out, this breakthrough reporting with the alti...

Number of waypoints just as a just in case, and that would explain why it is that they made those erratic movements. >> that's correct. they could have done that. or simply use a heading mode, which is the fastest and the simplest way to turn the aircraft from the navigation route that they -- the original route. we're told to -- if we need to do that in a hurry, you basically just push one button, heading select, and turn to heading to whatever you want it to be. in this case, would have been heading 270, which is westerly heading. and this also explains perhaps why there was no communication...