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And he told me verbally at the same time that he was flying the plane manually, that the auto pilot had disconnected. >> beer we are declaring emerge now. >> that is the last trants mission from swiss air flight 111. the transponder also fails. but the plane is close enough to the airport that radar can still track it. as it makes an unexpected turn to the west. >> whether it was a manual input by the pilots or what the reasoning was, they flew for probably two to three minutes west and then they did a 180-degree turn and headed back. a that point we thought perhaps they had control of the air...

Now that a manual input to the aircraft was made, whether it was made through the auto pilot appears to be the most likely means based on satellite data transmissions that were received shortly after the input was made. >> and let me go to matthew wald, new york sometimes obviously reported that the jet made sharp changes in altitude and course. tell me about those and tell me about the significance of that and also that in relation to what the "wall street journal" is reporting. >> well, it might confirm, might contradict. if you have an airplane that's trimmed to fly at a certain altitude an...