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Turn, so we're a little further away than we thought. >> reporter: this is essentially the weigh points, and we can't say that these are -- right now those are not publicly known. this is the system, and now you can just start to see the aircraft making this turn. and this what's going to send it off hurdling off at 287 knots now, 35,000 feet in the direction of that new search in the southern indian ocean. and i did it with one finger essentially. it just shows you the technology of this aircraft and what can be done, even if it is heading off into a mystery. >> we're doing this here in the f...

Told reuters. the information is in line with u.s. government sources who say the aircraft continued to ping a satellite, to send a signal for up to five hours after it last made contact with malaysian air traffic control. with the latest information, the potential search area now has a vast 2,500-mile radius. includes india, china, australia, and thousands of miles of the indian ocean which is the world's third largest. joining me today is former ntsb investigator greg fife. and from washington, msnbc counterterror analyst and former director of the national counterterrorism center, michael l...

Knowledge, potentially pilot, was in control and that mechanical failure seems less likely? >> absolutely. with what we know now, the fact that the systems were shut down, the way they were shut down, it sounds that somebody had to have a very high level of knowledge. this isn't somebody that just learned to fly on a computer sill simulator. this is somebody with an intimate knowledge of how the systems on that airplane work. when you look at it from that standpoint, there had to be human intervention. if there was a distress situation of any kind where they were trying to get the airplane bac...