we obviously don t know why this occurred. we know the turn was real. we know the acars stopped transmitting. for six or seven hours. 1:07 was the last transmission. we know the turn is real, because of the evidence this morning. we know the transponder was off. why? because it never came back on again. we now know the route and somebody would have seen it. we know it went southwest back across malaysia. we know it was tracked by military radar. sources have said it went down to 12,000 feet. we haven t had that confirmed. if that is true, that does indicate some sort of manual control of the flight. xlcompletely. it means the plane came down. we don t know for what purpose. because of a kdecompression or
the company search has grown from 18 to 26. the companies involved in this investigation, they re telling me at least within the first 26 minutes of that flight, the pilots were already changing the flight path. so what we originally thought was the plane had gone up, basically flying towards us on its original course to beijing and then signing off with air traffic control and then making a westerly turn, we now know within those first 26 minutes, they were in contact with air traffic control. so the pilots had intentionally changed their path, but the reason why remains a mystery. asian authority now reveals the acars system could have been shut down any time between 1:07 and 1:37 a.m., not necessarily before the co-pilot signed off. the total search area is now at more than 2 million square nautical miles. the next day we learn that files have been deleted from the captain s at-home flight simulator. but what files and why?
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exit malaysian air space, which is sort of the odd scenario and acars system. then the route is completely turned around dramatically. that suggests that either the pilot intentionally did it for whatever reason or that something was happening in the cockpit on the airplane with some possibly some of the passengers. we can t rule out the possibility of a passengers of a terrorist link to that. but one thing we do know for certain, the transponders turned off and acars routes changed. what caused that? we don t know at this point in time. it s either an accidental fire th caused that or a more deliberate intentional act. that s why we need to get to the bottom and get the black box in the indian ocean. alan, there s a good deal of speculation about what s called the pain stew ard scenario, that however this event started, that in the end, all of the people on the plane, including the pilots
okay, was the turn back because they were experiencing some sort of abnormal or emergency situation that required a return back to origin? but now you couple that with the intentionally disabling of the transponders. that s not a normal act. no pilot would ever have a reason to turn off the transponder in-flight. anyone planning to disable the transponder and acars system would have to have an in-depth understanding of the aircraft. whoever altered the aircraft had to use a computer located between the pilot and co-pilot chairs in the cockpit. what are the chances that someone other than the pilot or co-pilot changed that course? reprogrammed the autopilot? to reprogram the flight management system, they d have to come forward into the cockpit. and pilot and co-pilot see someone bursting through the door and fiddling with the flight management system, they d go nuts. we know that because if