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You make of this latest information? what does it tell you? >> i think we've known for a while, at least a lot of folks i've been talking to, that this has been an intentional maneuvering of the aircraft. one of the pilots clearly had the intention, as soon as that plane took off, he was going to take it in another direction, why, i have no idea, it was very clear, not only -- i mean, the fact that the transponder was turned off, the fact that the acars stopped functioning. this type of thing does not happen, and now with this new point you bring up tonight i think it's 100% clear, this pilot ...

Really changed observer a few d. first, we had a plane that went down but there was not a single plane to be found on the water. then we had had searches, there were various conflicting arguments about why the plane shifted. now we're in a third phase where we have investigators focusing on the idea that the aircraft as you said flew for five hours after the transponder stopped functioning and communicating with the air traffic controllers. it transmitted some messages up to satellite, which gave its position. its speed and its altitude for that whole five -- or longer period of time. and that...

In what they have said. and in fact, only today they held a press conference to the acting aviation -- the acting aviation chiefs conference saying there is no indication that the plane flew for hours after the transponder stopped functioning, basically shooting down the story on where some of the data came from. and then at the same press conference, at the end he said you know we're changing our search, expanding the search, because this plane could have traveled for several hours. so the whole thrust is changing -- >> they're all over the board. let me ask this question, i'm so grateful to ...

Really changed observer a few d. first, we had a plane that went down but there was not a single plane to be found on the water. then we had had searches, there were various conflicting arguments about why the plane shifted. now we're in a third phase where we have investigators focusing on the idea that the aircraft as you said flew for five hours after the transponder stopped functioning and communicating with the air traffic controllers. it transmitted some messages up to satellite, which gave its position. its speed and its altitude for that whole five -- or longer period of time. and that...

In what they have said. and in fact, only today they held a press conference to the acting aviation -- the acting aviation chief held a press conference saying there is no indication that the plane flew for hours after the transponder stopped functioning, basically shooting down the story on where some of the data came from. and then at the same press conference, at the end he said you know we're changing our search, expanding the search, because this plane could have traveled for several hours. so the whole thrust is changing -- >> they're all over the board. let me ask this question, i'm so ...