presentation on a big screen of the flight path of the plane, from 12:41 a.m., when the plane had taken off from kuala lumpur all the way until 8:19 a.m., when that partial ping was detected by the satellite. now, these family members stayed together during these 7 1/2 hours. they prayed, they cried, they meditated. they draw strength from each other. and one relative explains how difficult the past couple of weeks have been. a month s passed, and we are just going through so many, so many kinds of emotion, maybe just desperate, sad and something like that, everything. so, a month s passed and we will think about what we should do now. i think it s to just keep on waiting. reporter: so, they re waiting and waiting. there is a family briefing going
indonesia, didn t fly over indonesia, flew around indonesia before coming on to that southernly route that took the aircraft all the way down to the southern indian ocean. what is significant here? it shows another turn of the aircraft. it shows the complete route flying back across malaysia and then going up and around the north of indonesia before flying down off way off the indonesian coast to the southern indian ocean. what this senior official tells us is that it gives the appearance that whoever was piloting this the aircraft was trying to avoid detection, trying to avoid radar detection of indonesian radars as it flew down and off the coast of indonesia on that southern path. a significant development. we now know all of the route that this aircraft took and we
first they concentrate near the malaysian peninsula. but then they expand east towards vietnam. and west towards the andeman islands. but there s another problem the way the international investigators have been working together is kind of like a bunch of teen age girls running around a locker room all trying not to show each other what they ve got. who is in charge? it has to be managed better than it is in order to get those answers. taens begin to come fast and furious with the discovery of on several satellite ping else sent from the plane, referred to as handshakes. so there is a box on the plane which gets you to the satellite. that box was still alive. so it s not unlike your cell phone. when your cell phone is on, even if you re not making a call, it s constantly checking in with the nearest cell tower.
the intent here was to avoid detection in this whole flight path, natalie. unreal, this news. and, of course, after this turn, that put this airplane on a track to virtually nowhere. and i know that, nic, just yesterday, you pointed out that they ve been expanding the investigation and organizing it in a way to look at the different aspects of the operations of the cargo and the people on board. they still, though, even though they ve been looking for something with these pilots up until now they just haven t gotten anything that would explain any action on the pilots to do something like this. they haven t. what they have been able to do, investigators, is they ve played the air traffic control conversations with the cockpit to friends and colleagues of the
arrive for the flight. bags checked, boarding passes printed. among them, a group of chinese painters and calligraphers heading back from their work, a family heading back from vacation with their toddler, two iranian men traveling on fake passports, passengers flying for business and pleasure as well as the flight crew. in the cockpit, the captain and first officer make their final preparations. oxygen, check. instruments, check. in a 777 simulator, commercial pilot mitchell casado shows the preflight prep. so it s going into this system here. the pilot loads the route, programming the aircraft to fly to its destination. and it s essentially step by step going to take this plane from kuala lumpur all the way to beijing. the plane is ready. before taking the off, paul