Great to have you on this story. so we want to get now to some analysis of today s developments. we have mary see schiavo, formerly with the ntsb. rick gillespie, airplane recovery consultant and author of finding amelia. kip darby is head of his own aviation firm and cnn safety analyst david soucy. good to have you all here. a meeting of the minds. today we have new developments. mary, just on this news that malaysian authorities said today about data coming from that cockpit, because you remember a little more than a week ago there were reports, indications that that turn to the west after the plane lost contact might have been preprogrammed and this
Attorney for victims and families of transportation accidents. ric gillespie, airplane recovery clan, author of amelia earhart, another mystery, kit darby, head of his own aviation consulting firm, an cnn s david soucy. the panel is familiar with this but viewers just joining might not have heard this new development from malaysian authorities this morning saying that as far as their analysis of the data is concerned, they saw no indication from the plane that that turn to the west away from its original course towards beijing from kuala lumpur was preprogrammed into that flight computer. this had been a development about a week ago that had raised a lot of questions about why the pilots would have preprogrammed the turn before very calmly and in a friendly manner saying their last good night, their last communication with the ground. i just wondered with this new development and i m going to give at least a couple of you a chance to comment, but mary, does this eliminate any
Malaysian authorities are contradicting that this turn had been preprogrammed 12 some-odd minutes before the plane took that turn, it gave an indication at the time that when the cockpit said good night, an odd communication to give, to say everything s fine when in fact you prepam programmed a turn off course to the city of beijing, the sequence in key raised questions about whether this was intentional. now, again, to reiterate, we re being told by malaysian authorities that in fact at 1:07, that last wireless communication from plane via the acars system, there was no indication this turn had been preprogrammed. i wonder if i could bring you back, as well, mary, just for someone who s investigated incidents like this before, just explain to our viewers why that sequencing is important and why this new information changes that. as you said earlier, undermines the theory that this was intentional. all right. well, in prior accidents and things that are similar and at least for my
South indian ocean. maybe it s an consistent. i hope it is. but let s keep an open mind here. let s not build a house of cards. well, listen, you make a good point that all theorys are still open because investigator have made no final conclusions, just new information, taking the information as it comes. i want to thank our panel. so many difficult issues to explain to our viewers here. mary, ric, kit, and david, we ll have yor yao back to talk more in just a few minutes. but first, searching a vast, dark ocean poses a range of technical problems. we ll talk about them.
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