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Flying pilot was out of the cabin on a rest room break. they actually got into a struggle in the cockpit to get control of the plane. and unfortunately, the co pilt pilot turned the engines off and the plane crashed into the north atlantic. so you do have two cases where pilots have deliberately flown their planes into the ocean. >> and is it that -- is it that easy, peter, to simply push a button and the transponder goes off and then no one can monitor where that plane is heading? >> it is not difficult. you can either -- you can either turn the transponder off in the flight controls and in f...

Different raiders monitoring at any given time. if this is true, it really is zeroing in on what was going on in the cockpit, and why. and it's -- once they started to expand their search in the opposite direction of where the flight was headed, that was the tip-off. they knew something was going on. >> and what's so intriguing, peter, and i want yourle analysis of this. it looks like at least for an hour that aircraft, that boeing 777 was flying without its transponder on. so somebody had deliberately or maybe there was a mechanical failure or whatever. but that transponder was off for an hou...

Given. still no sight of any debris. no sight of this airliner. peter goels is joining us right now, former ntsb managing director. so the -- this air force official from malaysia, peter, is now saying the plane was hundreds of miles off course from where it would have been going if on a normal route from kuala lumpur to beijing. what do you make of that? >> even more perplexing. i think it starts to narrow the options down. if this report is true, it means a couple things. one is, was there someone unauthorized in the cockpit ordered the transponder turned off, ordered the plane to fly, you k...

Flight data recorder and the voice recorder with good pingers. this is going to be a real challenge. because the oil slick may or may not be from the aircraft. the currents will have moved it. they're going to have a very difficult time finding this wreckage. >> yep. give me the protocol, please, at this point, peter. what's happening a couple hours into the flight? is this all on autopilot? they have reached a cruising altitude and everything should be smooth sailing? >> absolutely. and the pilots are doing primarily paperwork, they're checking in periodically with their base or with air traf...

Plane down. but they had an immediate piece of data, recall, on that air france plane. and that was the plane was sending real-time telemetry data back to its base in france, advising the base, the computers, back in france, what was happening with this plane. we don't know, candidly, whether this 777 was sending a similar set of data, telemetry, back to its home base in malaysia. that's something we'll be asking as this process unfolds. >> okay, tom costello in d.c., thank you for. peter goels, you heard me talk about this time line, 24 hours, plus, with not a lot of details emerging. i don't...