likely crashing into the sea. that is one of the developments. the second item ties in adding details about how the jet was flying. reporting that malaysian military radar showed the plane climbing to 45,000 feet soon after disappearing from civilian radar screens. it then reportedly descends unevenlily to 23,000 feet approaching penang island, then begins climbing again as it heads into the indian ocean. the new york times newspaper citing american officials and others familiar with the investigation said the plane also altered course more than once as if still under the command of someone. the question obviously is who and why. barbara starr joins us. barbara, the u.s. has put together this new classified analysis outlining the two distinct possible flight paths. what more can you tell us? reporter: anderson, good evening. this is in conjunction with malaysian authorities, the faa, the ntsb and military imagery and radar specialists. everyone putting their heads together, looking
and more than one person may be involved. manually changing the plane s course. malaysian military radar showed the plane climbing and diving erratically after its transponder went dead as the new york times first reported. is it a sign of a fight for control in the cockpit? we ll get right to our breaking news. dramatic breaking news. joining me now cnn s barbara starr at the pentagon, also new york times reporting matthew wald and john ostrow from the wall street journal. john the wall street journal in the last few moments has broken this extraordinary development in this story which is that the plane may have been manually turned by at least one person quite deliberately and taken off course. tell me what you know. at this point what we ve learned over the course of today is that the change in heading that was made to the 777 came after various systems were appeared to be deliberately turned off. and we do know from the folks that we have spoken with that are directly f
night of erratic moves by the plane. malaysian military shows the plane climbing to 45,000 feet and then descending to 23,000 feet before once again heading to higher altitude. right now, the biggest clue that researchers may have for the crewnd the 239 people are the pings caught by sagtsits. satellites. cnn is following it live from kuala lumpur where the plane departed eight days ago now. malays malaysia s prime minister has officially shifted this story line from what caused this plane to disappear. to who caused it to disappear, given a lengthy statement overnight. china is not satisfied what they re hearing. demanding more competent and accurate information from
it was during this hour exactly one week ago we first found out that plane was missing. we now know its last communication took place an hour after takeoff from kuala lumpur. i ll explain what we re looking at. according to the new york times report we have tonight malaysian military radar shows the plane climbing at that turn to 45,000 feet. that altitude is above the approved limit for this type of aircraft. we re going to talk about why that s so significant later this hour. the radar track then shows the plane descending unevilly to 23,000 feet as it approached the highly pop pew rated penang island towards malacca towards the indian ocean. another very significant development is what you re looking at between those in those two white boxes. our barbara starr reporting breaking at this hour. the plane then continued to fly on one of two possible flight paths. as you can see a dramatic turn