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Now that a manual input to the aircraft was made, whether it was made through the auto pilot appears to be the most likely means based on satellite data transmissions that were received shortly after the input was made. >> and let me go to matthew wald, new york sometimes obviously reported that the jet made sharp changes in altitude and course. tell me about those and tell me about the significance of that and also that in relation to what the "wall street journal" is reporting. >> well, it might confirm, might contradict. if you have an airplane that's trimmed to fly at a certain altitude an...

And more than one person may be involved. manually changing the plane's course. malaysian military radar showed the plane climbing and diving erratically after its transponder went dead as the "new york times" first reported. is it a sign of a fight for control in the cockpit? we'll get right to our breaking news. dramatic breaking news. joining me now cnn's barbara starr at the pentagon, also "new york times" reporting matthew wald and john ostrow from the "wall street journal." john the "wall street journal" in the last few moments has broken this extraordinary development in this story whic...

Getting a little difficult to sort of firmly believe that there would not be some notice of it, some surveillance overhead that would not have noticed a crash. all this adds up plus mainly the technical data they believe it went into the ocean. but nothing is certain, piers. >> okay. matthew wald, when people say has this kind of thing happened before, well, actually quite recently, yes. we saw a diverted boeing 767 which was going from ethiopia to rome, and the pilot suddenly decided to take it off to switzerland with 164 passengers on board. he landed it safely. so if you assume expertise he...

Cockpits years ago. certainly post 9/11 i was amazed you could still do that and adults would go in and out. but let's move on to this pilot and his flight simulator. is that in your experience, matthew wald, common, unusual, strange? >> i know that -- i don't know. i know that there are a lot of pilots who live and breathe airplanes, and in fact become really attached to one model of airplane. right after twa 800, i met a man who had been a captain and reached the mandatory retirement age of 60 which it then was and went back to work as a flight engineer on a 747 just because he loved the pla...