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Have to remember is it also could have been some kind of problem, either short circuit or overheating or even a flame down in the bay down below. so, you know, i don't think you can be conclusive about any of this yet. so try to set up your priorities of what you think but there really isn't enough evidence to conclusively decide exactly what happened. >> it's interesting that they came out so definitively saying we now believe somebody did this deliberately, everybody went on their hijacking theories but it still could have been something, not someone, that set off these reactions? >> the one...

Why was the transponder, that transmits vital information to the ground turned off? >> our martin savidge is in a flight simulator that's in mississauga. >> just outside of toronto. >> you have it set up for about a minute before its last known point of contact. >> a little less than that. hello, john and micayla. let me show you where we are exactly b-today, the triangle here is us, the airplane. b-todd, is a reference point in the sky. it was the last known location in which there was an official report from the aircraft. we are just about passing over it now. mitchell casada is the pilot of...

Satellite pings an the idea this plane was being navigated via wave points in the andaman islands. what does that tell us and what does that not tell us? >> i think what we have to focus on is what the data is. the transponder stopped transmitting, not that anybody turned it off. the same with the messaging system, it stopped. we have five wave points, the one on the island to the west of malaysia and the four data points from the satellite. the most logical thing is to say, for whatever reason, there is no more data and the plane was continuing on that path. can it the plane do it by itself o...

Minutes. we're at 35,000 feet, on automatic pilot. we, in every way we could, tried to replicate exactly the circumstances and conditions so you could see what it would feel like, weeceven with the night s because it was an overnight flight. this is the point. i asked mitchell if you thought that was an unusual statement and you said, not at all. >> not at all. it is a very standard. as you are signing off from one air traffic control center to the next, you say thanks very much, good night, good morning, whatever sal u tatsalutation is important. >> a lot has been said about the transponder. ...

Radar plots. even if the transponder is off. if the aircraft is flying above 10,000 feet, there should be a primary radar plot. now, i understand the national transportation safety board from the united states has dispatched radar specialists -- >> yes. >> -- to malaysia to examine those radar plots and make just that determination. >> yes. malaysia said to the u.s., we need you, and we're going to help. anthony roman, thank you so much for your expertise this morning. i appreciate it. chris, to you. >> brooke, thank you. coming up on "new day," more gruesome evidence in the oscar pistorius ...