Heard a garbled communication from that plane, but all of that was difficult to reconcile from the time the reports were that pilots put in this turn and were intending, based on input of data, were intending some kind of a turn and their last communication was 12 minutes, and that didn t jive with anything because if you re fighting for control of your aircraft, if you re fighting for your life, you re going to try to let somebody know. now if it wasn t preprogrammed, what you do not have, you do not have any malice afore thougerafo evil intent, you re likely a pilot involved in heroism rather than terrorism. that s a great point. i want to bring rick gillespie in because your job is about finding lost airplanes, including your book, finding amelia, the story of amelia earha earhart, because this theory about this turn was under control as opposed to reacting to something was based not just on the acars data but also on the information that when the
Attorney for victims and families of transportation accidents. ric gillespie, airplane recovery clan, author of amelia earhart, another mystery, kit darby, head of his own aviation consulting firm, an cnn s david soucy. the panel is familiar with this but viewers just joining might not have heard this new development from malaysian authorities this morning saying that as far as their analysis of the data is concerned, they saw no indication from the plane that that turn to the west away from its original course towards beijing from kuala lumpur was preprogrammed into that flight computer. this had been a development about a week ago that had raised a lot of questions about why the pilots would have preprogrammed the turn before very calmly and in a friendly manner saying their last good night, their last communication with the ground. i just wondered with this new development and i m going to give at least a couple of you a chance to comment, but mary, does this eliminate any