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Deliberate act. adding to all of this confusion, reuters now reporting this morning that radar data shows the plane may have been flown intentionally towards the andaman islands. now a u.s. navy destroyer is joining the search, with officials saying there is now a significant likelihood that the plane could be at the bottom of the indian ocean. jim clancy has the very latest for us. he is in kuala lumpur. jim, what do you know? >> reporter: well, there is no doubt whatsoever that about an hour after the plane left kuala lumpur on saturday morning that the pilot or someone turned that plane aro...

Circuit breaker so you can disable the system. if you knew what you were doing you could pull the circuit breaker on that. you'd have to have a fairly sophisticated understanding of the airplane to do that. >> mary, at this point you like everybody else is not ruling anything out. what at this point are kind of the data points that you're really focusing on? >> well, i think for me and looking at it from an investigator's eye, you want to look at what makes sense, what fits together the pieces of evidence. what do we really have to suggest one thing or another. and from work on the air france,...

Again, this is not our data, this is coming from a reuters report point, saying that radar shows the plane may have been flown intentionally toward the andaman islands. do we have a sense for how far off they were from when the plane was turned, if it would be safe to land there? do we know what that scenario would entail? >> reporter: look, reuters doesn't have to tell us that. cnn can tell you, here from kuala lumpur, what the malaysian officials told us -- they came out on sunday with this -- that plane did a turnback. nothing automatic is going to turn the plane around more than 90 degrees...

Course and an area with no significant land masses. >> so the focus is still on finding that aircraft. we have just learned that that search is expanding. it's pushing further east and further west. the u.s. is also trying to help. they are sending in the uss kidd to the indian ocean. and also activity on the sea floor hours after the plane went missing nearly one week ago. we are turning to our reporters all around the world. we will start with jim clancy in kuala lumpur. >> reporter: let me give you a little bit of perspective on what we're talking about about the deliberate track the plane ...

Jim clancy has the latest live from kuala lumpur. jim, what can you tell us this morning? >> reporter: all right, let's go back. as we look at all of those reports, this is a quickly developing story. last sunday we had the military here, the malaysians telling us that they believe that the pilot may have attempted a turnback. remember, off went the switch to the transponder that sends out the name of the aircraft. that can happen sometimes. the reason they have that manual switch is, if the pilot thinks there's a short, something's wrong in the system. when he turned around -- i asked sources...