me a lot more now. reporter: what does it suggest? it suggests an intentionality on someone s part. there is no reason ever for a pilot to turn a transponder off unless the air traffic controller calls him and tells him there s some problem with his data block. reporter: but there was no known communication. the other possibility, a massive electrical failure. but you d expect all systems to go at once. radar suggests the plane may have made a turn. that that might suggest that there was some unauthorized control of that airplane, either by a pilot or by an intruder. reporter: but our criminal investigator isn t terribly concerned. he paints a possible scenario. they re losing the systems, they re worried about keeping the plane in the air at all, trying to find a place to put the plane down. reporter: reuters reports military radar may have tracked the plane flying towards india s andaman island following navigation markers.
press conference. for example, we were speaking a few hours ago about the pings which have been picked up. i put that to the malaysian head of the defense department. he said, all he said was we re aware of those media reports. we will not comment until we get further information. it s been the same story all along here. very frustrating. they ve been very, very cautious. there have been complaints about the handling of the information working with some of their allies in this search. but perhaps now we re getting a real focus. andrew stevens in kuala lumpur, thank you. one week ago this time flight 370 was supposed to have arrived in beijing. people from china account for a vast majority of the passengers presumed to have died on the flight, but that s just a presumption. we don t know. however, some of the families are finding hope in the theories that the plane may actually have been hijacked and landed on ground somewhere safely. let s go live to david mckenzie
flight 370 was apparently in tact for five hours. reuters cite sources saying that the plane deliberately was flown far off course using recognized waypoints. our correspondents are standing by. let s go to the pentagon. barbara starr has brand-new information. what are you learning? cnn has learned that there s a new classified analysis that the malaysians and ntsb, faa and u.s. military intelligence officials all joining forces looking at every scrap of information. all of the satellite data, the pings off the airplane that we looked at, radar hits, everything they have and they have come up with this following analysis. they now believe that it is most likely when the plane crossed back over the malay peninsula and flew to the west towards the
so bottom line here it seems like you can poke a hole in just about every theory we have about this plane. i spoke to another law enforcement official who said investigators are also keenly aware of other theories like suicidal pilots like what you saw in the egypt air crash and whether the oxygen generators overheated. we saw that in a plane crash in florida in 96. everything is on the table. they re clooking at everything. as they should, they ve got to look at all these options. thanks very much, pamela brown. now another breaking story. the new york times reporting the flight 370 had sharp erratic changes in altitude. brian todd is working this part of the story for us. reporter: the new york times report, if it s accurate, shows very dramatic swings of this plane. it cites u.s. officials and others familiar with the investigation saying radar signals recorded by the malaysian military show the plane climbed to 45,000 feet, that s above the approved altitude limit, did t
from our experience, when you have to recover the remains of bodies, that is extremely emotionally taxing and so we have a very good support system for that and that s what we are watching out for. well, our best wishes to you, commander, and all of the men and women of the united states navy, the marine course, all of the u.s. military personnel and members of the coast guard and others who are involved in this extraordinary search. we ll check back with you. of course, commander william marks of the u.s. navy s seventh fleet aboard the uss blue ridge . the airliner may have crashed somewhere in the indian ocean. but why? scrutiny is being directed at the pilots. we re taking a closer look at these two men. plus, investigators still haven t ruled out the possibility that the plane may have actually landed in a revote island chain. we re going to have a reality check on that as well. stay with us. you re in the situation room. if you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthriti