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The maintenance people and the housekeeping people. you know, hundreds and hundreds of people have access to an airplane on the ground before it even takes off and could introduce, you know, something harmful. we just had a guy fall out of the wheel well dead on a plane landing at dulles airport here in washington about a month ago. how did he get in the wheel well and ride on that aircraft as it flew across the ocean. so, you have many questions about the airport security, the ground security and then the personnel and people security in the plane. >> bob, back to this pilot for just a second...

One of the areas that's being searched. this string of islands stretches almost 500 miles north to south. most of them are uninhabited. there are only a few choices of a plane here coming down. even as people talk about the ideas of the west and there are some signals that suggest it might have gone this way. there is still very serious searching going on along the east along the original flight path toward vietnam. that still remains a very active search zone. the expanded search area is not evidence of greater confidence that it went west but of the complete lack of confidence in any of the ...

Approaching 1,000. here is our speed. the goal is to eventually get to 35,000 feet. that's the last known altitude we knew and very shortly, here, mitchell is going to put us into autopilot, because the plane was flying at auto-pilot when it was last referenced. this was everything as it was happening a it was happening that night as we knew it. let's point out something pretty important here. the transponder. it was apparently for some reason off. why did it go off? here it is, this little device, looked small, make look inobjecti inobjecting -- innocuant. they need to predict where that is g...

Asking why the transponder's off, why we put that code in. they're going to think it is a hijacking. >> we should point out, carol, allegedly, that has not happened. we have not had any reports that that emergency code was used. one last thing we're on auto pilot. if i want today change course, as it suggested the plane did. if i did this, that's the alarm that tells me, the autopilot has been disengaged. i can turn it off and put us back on course. so, in other words, you can can't take this plane off course without somebody in the cockpit knowing. >> a lot of people asked me via tweet, why c...

Radar screen this transponder we're flight 370 and at this altitude. can you turn it off? >> yes, you can. here's how you do it. just three clicks to the left and it's off. but you would never do that, mitchell. >> we would never do that. never in flight. >> it would be like driving the wrong way down a highway and that's how a no go this sort of maneuver is, but it can be turned off. let me show you something else this transponder can do. put it back in the normal position. if i was hijacked, a way to use the transponder to send a code. i will not do the code, but a code you can enter and imm...