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Is significant. but i'd like to go back to one other point that was made earlier. whether this turn was the result of a mechanic malfunction on the airplane or something else, i have to say, at 1:07 when the acars system reported that there was a program change for the heading in the airplane followed by 12 minutes later when the pilot made his infamous remark "all right, good night," pilots don't make their change in course mid-flight without getting permission from air traffic control. they had 12 minutes to talk to air traffic control and did not do that. i think that this -- this was a wel...

Miles and unless they stopped and took on a whole bunch of jet a, it would be pretty pressing over the mountains. >> here is what michael says. what intelligence value to the employees of semiconductor china telecom and business machines zte and huawei? >> it's my understanding those employees had a background in sophisticated radar and there may have actually been at least one of those employees who had some piloting experience. so the fact that they were actually on this plane i think is significant. but i'd like to go back to one other point that was made earlier. whether this turn was the ...

As u.s. government sources tell nbc news there's evidence the plane's automated systems gave off fapt pings for up to four hours after going off radar. that means the plane could have traveled up to 2500 miles in any direction. a vast expanse of the globe that includes the indian ocean. >> what it doesn't tell us, though, is what direction, whether it went west, east, north, south. because we have no radar coverage. so at this point we just know that the airplane was still operational and probably didn't have a mechanic malfunction or failure. >> reporter: at the request of the malaysians the ...