Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. For most of the world tonight, it is an unsolved mystery. But for the families of the 239 people aboard that missing malaysian jetliner, it is unmitigated agony. In beijing today, some of them threatened to go on a Hunger Strike unless they get answers. But 11 days after the boeing 777 disappeared, answers are still hard to come by. Today, sources told us that checks of the computers and email of the captain and first officer turned up nothing to suggest a plot. Still, there are indications tonight that someone in the cockpit intentionally took flight 370 off course. Seth doane is in kuala lumpur for us tonight. Seth. Ood evening to you, scott. Sources say there is evidence that the plane was turned off that original course after someone typed a course change into an onboard Navigation System in the cockpit. This would suggest someone had real training in the 77
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
Capital which has gone from flames, fury and deadly street fighting to a signed peace deal. Marathon talks brokered by european diplomats ended this morning with an agreement to holt the slaughter and begin a reform process. But in the bloodstained streets of kiev, there is still so much anger and plenty of doubt. Our Senior International correspondent Nick Paton Walsh reports. Reporter fireworks of victory fired in rage, a hole where the riot police have been. 24 hours ago, this street was the scene of pitch live gunfire between the police and protesters. Now, absolutely no police around. They have abandoned this position two hours ago. Just protesters to be seen. You can even catch a taxi. A remarkable turnaround. The protesters and now the power here. In the morning, the deal emerged between the president and the opposition that would weaken yanukovychs powers and call for early elections. But the crowd here scattered and angry at the dozens of dead werent convinced. It took blunt t
Detected by malaysian military radar. Hundreds of miles off course to the west and the Malacca Strait. Now fast forward to a week later, we finally have another country confirming this radical change in route. The Royal Thai Air force now says it too tracked that boeing 777 through normal channels through roughly 40 minutes after takeoff at 1 22 a. M. When it vanished. Six minutes later, 1 28 a. M. , the same Thai Military radar detected an unknown plane heading in the opposite direction. So that new information also gives more weight to the new information. Just confirmed by cnn, which suggests that flight 370s path was deliberately altered through the flight computer, making it likely that someone in the cockpit programmed flight 370 to turn west. That sharp left turn. But the thing is, this is the big thing, no one knows exactly who entered the new coordinates or when or why. So the questions now, of course, was it a preplanned hijacking move . Could it have simply been a response t
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