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Figure out how to avoid radar detection? does a pilot know where to fly specifically geographically to be able to do so undetected? >> well, certainly an experienced pilot who had had had been in that region for quite some time would understand where the radars begin and end and where the radio hand-offs occur. so it does take a little bit of knowledge and experience, frankly, to understand all of that. and what's also interesting about this route, as it is laid out, is it appears it goes to the designated way pit points that we use. these arbitrary intersections in the sky that air traffic co...

Encouraging lead. of one which i urge you to continue to treat carefully. >> well, let's dig in to the new information from a cnn source that flight 370 may have deliberately skirted malaysian radar. nic robertson. nic, how important is this new information to the investigation? >> it's very significant, victor. what we have known until now is that the aircraft took off, flew towards beijing, made that mysterious left-hand turn and the question always being, was there some kind of mechanical issue that made it take that left-hand turn. it flew back across the malaysian peninsula, but now we've...

Beijing, there was obviously the speculation that perhaps there was an emergency. the plane turned around and flown back to malaysia and had continued along, this indicates another turn in the flight path. we have heard all along from malaysian officials that they believe as part of the investigation that whoever was in control of the aircraft was knowledgeable about the aircraft and knew what they were doing and how to fly it. now this skirting around indonesia as this senior government official says, it does appear as if they were trying to avoid the radar detection of indonesia. this is goi...

Air traffic control. military radar kept tracking this aircraft for the next hour and 21 minutes. this is when we know the plane took the sharp turn to the west. it headed for the strait of malacca. then descended down to 3700 meters above the ocean. why is this significant? it would not help the 777 avoid radar detection. 12,000 feet would be sustainable for life. if they needed to depressurize the cabin, if you're down at 12,000 feet, you could survive in those conditions. passengers could stay alive. we know that the pilots had to punch in this movement. we know it took several minutes to c...

A.m., everything was running as normal. the plane was flying to beijing, things seem to be fine. at 1:19, the co-pilot said all right, good night, and then something big happened. but the question is, what exactly. we know the plane took a sharp turn to the west, started heading to the strait of malacca and plunged down to 12,000 feet. why would a pilot do that? aviation experts tell us 12,000 feet is not low enough to avoid radar detection, put it is an altitude that would be standard procedure if there was a problem on the plane where they needed to depressurize the cabin and make it safe fo...