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Communication, what does that tell you about what might have been happening in the sky, mitchell? >> if a plane is flying, if it was off course and it was flying for four hours after last contact, someone's flying that airplane. someone turned it off. of course, someone was flying that airplane. if it was the pilots, if the pilots were flying when they were supposed to be, they would have been communicating with air traffic control. there's weather, volcanoes erupt and we have to go around it, but you're always talking to somebody. we have that saying, navigate and then communicate with air tr...

This mission? >> it took five years to find the wreckage. it took two years to find the site on the sea floor of the aircraft and then the black box. the search area we have got looking at now, it is at least the range of the plane from kuala lumpur and beijing. it is almost the entire atlantic. it is like going from honolulu to los angeles and los angeles to new york. the first thing we would want to know as underwater experts, what is the water temp, what does the see surface look like. what does the seabed look like? is it mountainous and that area includes some of the flattest and some of ...

Understandable. hopefully we'll do it again at 10:00 a.m. eastern time. i hope so. the mystery deepens into what happened to malaysian flight 370. data reporting system and transponder were turned off separately and reuters citing unnamed sources and military radar new evidence that someone deliberately and secretly rerouted that plane towards the indian ocean and flew for hours after the last contact. so, who was that someone? was it the pilot, co-pilot or someone else? pamela brown is investigating who these men are. pamela? >> well, good morning to you, carol. fascinating look a that flig...

Over to the indian ocean. richard quest, many thanks. i want to bring in tom foreman to walk us through exactly where the andaman islands are and what a large area that searchers are now searching. tom, take it away. >> yeah, carol. we're going to have to adjust our map again today. let me pull this out and show you our general map and talk about what we know from the beginning in all of this. we know where the plane took off. kuala lumpur and flew for less than an hour and flew up to here where it disappeared entirely. these are the search areas that have been put into place since that time. ...

We are now on our way to beijing, as was the original flight plan. so, everything is set up in that particular way. one of the things we should talk about, carol, is the redundancy factor something the pilot here had mentioned. this aircraft, the 777 200 designed to go long distances and be out in the middle of no where. multiple backup systems and some suggested maybe they lost power and electricity to all of this. there are backups to that, right? >> there are a lot of backups. the electrical system, just that one system has six separate backup systems. the hydraulics is backed up eight time...