Plane vanished. Relatives venting at officials. One woman wants the truth and doesnt want to be used as a political pawn. Theres little doubt the plane went off course because of demand from the cockpit. The New York Times citing unnamed Officials Saying someone in the cockpit deliberately changed the course. This person typed key strokes into the system to divert off course to beijing. Someone put into the Computer System a new direction for the plane to go in. It shows that whoever did this had expertise in flying. This was not someone on the plane that grabbed the controls and moved it. Also this morning, china is ramping up its search within its own borders. Chinese Authorities Say background checks on their passengers are clear. Theres discrepancy on the missing Airlines Time line. The ceo said the final word from the cockpit all right. Good night could have come before or after the system shut off. The ceo saying the system could have shut off between 1 07 a. M. And 1 37 a. M. Wh
The beginning. What can you tell us about this latest development . Reporter the latest information released by authorities is changing our understanding of what may have happened and when. The last transmission at 1 07 am from the Communication System showed quote normal routing and quote nothing unusual. This is peers to undercut the theory that the reprogramming before the pilot said quote good night. This reduces but does not rule out suspicions in the cockpit. It rules out the mystery of what happened aboard the flight two weeks ago. Authorities are now sharing the hard drives that longed to the pilots and what are they finding . In particular the one blo belonging to the captain, we have learned that there were deletions. This contained the flight sim y simulator that they have looked at. Some were done after authorities began exsal am inning this. Or some didnt enter the home. It is hard to explain this and i think the fbi is trying to figure that out now randy. A lot of concern
We have obtained new images of the missing jets radar track which raised very important questions about the boeing 777s flight path. The reason i want to emphasize that picture used to show the line going up and then you saw the turn to the left. Now when you look at your screen you realize it looped around. As a result of this picture that you are looking at here malaysian sources are telling cnn they are treating this disappearance as a criminal act. Our Nick Robinson is breaking the story tonight in kuala lumpur. Reporter this map of flight 370s radar track was much of the reason for upset by survivor families last week. The image captured by still photographers shows a different route from the left turn depicted until now and it is raising even more questions about what exactly happened to flight 370, questions the family members were unable to ask at the time. The family briefings. Chinese relatives of passengers say they created the map from publicly available data. A source with
The implication if true is deeply important. Because, again, if true, it would cast doubt on the notion of pilots programming the turn because of some kind of an emergency. It could suggest premeditation. Now, there is also a more benign interpretation that the crew preprogrammed the turn as part of a normal contingency plan to be executed in case of mechanical problems with the plane. Thats the latest on many Key Developments today. Were going to focus on it with our team of experienced pilots in and out of the Flight Simulator. The search area, instead of shrinking is just growing again today, nearly as big as the continental United States. More on all of it tonight starting with our kyung lah reporting from kuala lumpur in malaysia. Kyung . Reporter the investigation into why Malaysia Airlines flight 370 vanished took another strange turn today. Officials believe the jets Navigation System was intentionally altered, saying someone in the cockpit with knowledge of how it works entere
Look for any debris related to that missing jet. The man in charge of coordinating the mission says there is still a chance that something will be discovered. I think theres still a great possibility of finding something on the surface. Theres lots of lots of things in aircraft that float. I mean, in previous previous searches life jackets have appeared. And a total of 14 planes and 9 ships are scouring the search area today, which totals some 84,000 square miles or roughly the size of idaho. The specific region, 1,000 miles off the Western Australian coast. Cnns will riply is there. He has more on the conditions faced by the teams. Reporter kyra, after a day of fair weather in the search zone where we saw somewhat low clouds but calm seas, were starting to now see light rain here close to the coast of Western Australia and the weather in the search zone 1,000 miles from here, very unpredictable as well. The good news for searchers today visually, they werent seeing the white caps over