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Cutting off essential data like altitude, heading and speed. let's check in with jim clancey from kuala laum pu r? >> very heated press conference today in kuala lumpur. we watched the malaysian officials hedge their bets. they said, yes, they tracked this when it had the trans poppeder out there into the south china sea and, yes, they had another object from the same point at the same time that tra transponder went off and going out about 200 miles northwest of panang which would put it in an almost totally opposite direction but, you know, in order to sort it out they say they can't be sure ...

Now, this plane was last seen by this radar track, and it's called a primary radar. which meansit not sophisticated, doesn't give much information at all about the plane. the last time they saw that plane on the primary radar was about 200 nautical miles, 250 miles, northwest of an island called panang. if it was northwest and we don't know what altitude, it was heading towards indian waters. significantly, the indian navy has been asked to join the search. so slowly joining the dots, cannot say -- i repeat -- that this is mh-370 for sure. but that is where a very key part of this investigatio...

Radar see the plane having made a distinct left turn. 45 minutes later at 2:15 a unidentified plane shows up for final time on military radar 200 northwest of panang. six hours after that, at 8:11 a.m. a satellite picks up the last known signal from flight 370. within hours malaysian authorities confirm the plane is missing. a vietnamese plane spots an oil slick but it is not from a plane. debris is also spotted unrelated as it turns out. then the theories. two iranians on board using stolen passports. turns out officials say they're just two iranians trying to find new lives in europe. terror...