quote, desperate call from on board the flight in mid-air. joining us from the latest is grn roger maynard. what you can tell me about this phone call? who discovered it? how come we are just learning about it now. >> intriguing story first reported by the new straight times in malaysia over the weekend. it's, quote, unnamed sources who claim the co-pilot, made a call on his cell phone shortly after mh 370 turned back from its scheduled flight path. but the call ended abruptly after contact was established with the communications tower. now, we don't know who the pilot was trying to call or, indeed, if it was the pilot making that call. it may have been that the phone was left on and the phone was automatically reaching out trying to find a communication's tower. so, either way, the malaysian authorities are not commenting on the report which indicates they are not taking it too seriously.