acoustic event. authorities saying that that vessel will stay there to thoroughly investigate that occurrence. houston saying that, you know, this is raw data at this moment. it thoroughly needs to be looked at, thorough le needs to be investigated and that we are a long way off from being able to draw any conclusions from this information. natalie. and what s really remarkable about this the possible break through, and yes, we definitely want to emphasize this has not been verified, but it came in the ninth hour. it came when time was virtually up to be able to hear anything. so this is if this is something, it came it couldn t have come at a better moment or the most critical time. that s right. it s less than a day until that battery life of the black box pinger is expected to begin to fade, begin to decline. as they redeploy the assets to
catastrophic failure on the plane which caused an electrical disruption. then the 777 makes an unexpected left turn heading west, way off course. what we see is a quick turn, almost 180 degree turn back towards land. according to a source close to the investigation, military radar then shows the plane dropping and flying as low as 12,000 feet. the controller at the other end is expecting a call from that aircraft. but the call never comes. there was repeated attempts to reach the aircraft. not ohm on the 120.9 frequency, which is the frequency they were assigned, but also on an emergency frequency. there is no answer. they re going through their checklist for a missing aircraft, an aircraft that has apparently fallen off the radar screens and is not communicating.
preparations. oxygen, check. instruments, check. in a 777 simulator, mitchell casado shows cnn s martin savidge the preflight prep. the pilot loads the route, programming the aircraft to fly to its destination. reporter: it s essentially step by step going to make this plane from kuala lumpur all the way to beijing. the plane is ready. before taking off, paul weeks sends a message home. the last line was, this counts as one day, so that means it s only 27 days till i see you all again. around 12:30 a.m., malaysian airlines flight 370 pushes back from the gate and eases toward the runway. the aircraft is cleared for takeoff. let s go. so the brakes are off and everything is set. the captain boosts the massive engines. the plane roars into the sky.
and pleasure as well as the flight crew. in the cockpit, the captain and first officer make their final preparations. okay. oxygen. check. instruments. check. in a 777 simulator, commercial pilot mitchell casado shows cnn s martin savidge the preflight prep. 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 off, paul weeks sends a message home. the last line was, this counts as one day, so that means it s only 27 days until i see you all again. around 12:30 a.m., malaysia airlines 370 pushes back from the gate and gently eases toward the runway. the aircraft is cleared for takeoff. let s go. yeah. all right. so the brakes are off. and everything is set.
in the cockpit, the captain and first officer make their final preparations. okay. oxygen. check. instruments. check. in a 777 simulator, commercial pilot mitchell casado shows cnn the preflight prep. 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 off, paul weeks sends a message home. the last line was, this counts as one day, so that means it s only 27 days until i see you all again. around 12:30 a.m., malaysia airlines 370 pushes back from the gate and gently eases toward the runway. the aircraft is cleared for takeoff. let s go. yeah. all right. so the brakes are off. and everything is set.