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Out of local media in the maldives that a number of eyewitnesss say they saw a plane heading in their direction. again these are eyewitness reports from the maldives. what do you make of it mary? >> i say go look. two scenarios, one a crime one a horrible accident. and if somebody saw something, it doesn't take long to rule it out. just like the fisherman's story, they saw wreckage there. go check it out. about four hours into the ocean. they could be soon out of fuel. do a fly over. let's rule out the things we know can't be. we know one thing from the thai radio report by the way. the report...

This theory, though, about the sharp left turn has been bolstered by thailand because a second country here confirming this radical change in the route. the royal thai air force now says it too tracked that boeing 777 through normal channels until roughly 40 minutes after takeoff, 1:22 a.m. when it, poof, vanished. six minutes later, 1:28 in the morning, that same thai military radar detected an unknown plane heading in the opposite direction. let's go straight to cnn international's andrew stevens, who is live for us in kuala lumpur. andrew, tell me more about the search of the pilot's home. ...

The communication systems had been switched off. that timing has sharpened suspicions that one or maybe even both of the pilots may have been involved in the plane's disappearance. al-qaeda informant telling a court last week that a plot to help a group of malaysians blow autopsy plane with a shoe bomb, so still series theories. 26 countries are now helping in that search. imagine look out of your plane window and seeing this. a passenger snapped this showing a piece of the wing totally missing. delta says it just flew off mid flight, the plane heading from orlando to atlanta, landed as sc...

Or didn't stay on isn't the issue. it doesn't change course on its own even though it has an automated flight path. without radio communications, without the communications we have we know were off, that really wouldn't be possible fsh it to follow a path. it would be possible to set up the points ahead of time and then fly from point to point to point. but -- >> so you're saying somebody had to do something? >> absolutely. there's intent. >> and then the discussion bringing in the andaman islands. this far off the coast of india, closer to asia if you will. the plane heading in that direction...

Our embassies overseas. and so because you've looked at terror financing and looked at different groups that support each other, we were thinking, you know, what kind of support is this group in yemen getting? where is it coming from? >> sure. well, i mean, you have to understand, first of all, the way al-qaeda has been structured. it's been structured this way for more than ten years, and that is it is a network of affiliates or franchises. it is a very flatlined organization, particularly since the demise of usama bin laden. you've got a number of independent groups with very local grievance...