And if that last scenario seems unlikely, you should know that tonight it is possible. Thats because according to investigators, everything is on the table. In fact, officials now believe the plane might have been sending out electronic signals or pings four to five hours after its radar beacons stops transmitting. Tonight weve just learned that u. S. Officials fwlooefr ray dan beacon or transrespoponder was down separately from the system that continued sending out the pings 14 minutes apart that. Could be extremely significant. American investigators telling abc news that the two modes of communication were quote systematically shut down, which makes for a very big hour ahead starting with our jim clancy. Reporter 2200 nautical miles. Thats how much farther u. S. Officials say Malaysia Airlines flight 370 might have flown after losing contact early saturday morning. Investigators now believe flight information from the boeing 777s engines continued to broadcast automatically for as m
Off essentially just saying good night. Hours after the planes radar transponder signal vanished, hours after acars stopped sending data, hours after it possibly soared to High Altitude and then plunged 20,000 feet and then climbed again. We learned today that in all those hours Authorities Say there is no evidence, none at all, of anyone trying to make any cell phone calls or send any texts or make transmissions at all from the airliner. The question is why not . Is it simply the plane was too high . We also learned that other countries are planning for the possibility this plane landed somewhere and is being somehow being prepared to be used as a weapon. Israeli air Traffic Control went on higher alert today as a precaution which redoubles the scrutiny on who took control of the airliner. Was the crew up to no good . They were seen in a widely circulated Youtube Video, the first officer and captain going through security. New attention as well on who, if anyone, had access to the pla
Likely crashing into the sea. That is one of the developments. The second item ties in adding details about how the jet was flying. Reporting that malaysian military radar showed the plane climbing to 45,000 feet soon after disappearing from civilian radar screens. It then reportedly descends unevenlily to 23,000 feet approaching penang island, then begins climbing again as it heads into the indian ocean. The New York Times newspaper citing american officials and others familiar with the investigation said the plane also altered course more than once as if still under the command of someone. The question obviously is who and why. Barbara starr joins us. Barbara, the u. S. Has put together this new classified analysis outlining the two distinct possible flight paths. What more can you tell us . Reporter anderson, good evening. This is in conjunction with malaysian authorities, the faa, the ntsb and military imagery and radar specialists. Everyone putting their heads together, looking at
A lot to cover tonight starting with cnns rene marsh. Reporter this was the lastknown location of flight 370 over the South China Sea as civilian aviation radar suggests. But now a dramatic new turn of events. A malaysian military source tells cnn their radar shows the plane may have still been flying an hour and ten minutes later. Instead of being off to the east coast of malaysia, it apparently turned to the opposite direction and flew to the malaka straits west of the peninsula. Its lastknown location according to the Malaysian Air force was just over this small island called pulau parak. Adding to the mystery, why were the transresponders in the cockpit used to tract plane turn turned off . You have to very a very deliberative process to turn the transresponder off. If somebody did that in the cockpit they would do it to disguise the route of the plane. Reporter Malaysian Police are now looking at three areas, hijacking, sabotage, and psychological or personal problems with the pas
Aviation mystery thats baffled the world. Here are the latest developments as we have them. Pakistan says no trace of the missing plane ever showed up on its radar systems. And pakistan says the plane would have been treated as if it was a threat if it did show up on radar. Right now, police are examining a Flight Simulator taken from the pilots home. Harsh new scrutiny is bearing down on the pilot and the copilot. Plus, the search for the missing jet airliner is getting even bigger. Now authorities are scouring ocean and land. You will hear why some believe the plane may have landed before its last satellite contact. We are bringing in all our experts to track the unsolved mystery of Malaysia Flight 370. But first, as daylight breaks in what what sha, its another day without questions. As the are the tloauthoritie getting any more details after searching the pilots home and searching the flight simulate their the captain of the plane had in his home . Well, pretty much as for this ent