and more than one person may be involved. manually changing the plane's course. malaysian military radar showed the plane climbing and diving erratically after its transponder went dead as the "new york times" first reported. is it a sign of a fight for control in the cockpit? we'll get right to our breaking news. dramatic breaking news. joining me now cnn's barbara starr at the pentagon, also "new york times" reporting matthew wald and john ostrow from the "wall street journal." john the "wall street journal" in the last few moments has broken this extraordinary development in this story which is that the plane may have been manually turned by at least one person quite deliberately and taken off course. tell me what you know. >> at this point what we've learned over the course of today is that the change in heading that was made to the 777 came after various systems were -- appeared to be deliberately turned off. and we do know from the folks that we have spoken with that are directly familiar with this investigation as it's unfolding