understandable. hopefully we ll do it again at 10:00 a.m. eastern time. i hope so. the mystery deepens into what happened to malaysian flight 370. data reporting system and transponder were turned off separately and reuters citing unnamed sources and military radar new evidence that someone deliberately and secretly rerouted that plane towards the indian ocean and flew for hours after the last contact. so, who was that someone? was it the pilot, co-pilot or someone else? pamela brown is investigating who these men are. pamela? well, good morning to you, carol. fascinating look a that flight simulator. like he said, why didn t the pilots communicate? so many unanswered questions about what happened to flight 370 and why it possibly changed course and that has put the two pilots and their previous behavior squarely into focus. we still have a lot to learn about them, but what we do know what was said right in the cockpit right before the plane vanished gives few clues.
over to the indian ocean. richard quest, many thanks. i want to bring in tom foreman to walk us through exactly where the andaman islands are and what a large area that searchers are now searching. tom, take it away. yeah, carol. we re going to have to adjust our map again today. let me pull this out and show you our general map and talk about what we know from the beginning in all of this. we know where the plane took off. kuala lumpur and flew for less than an hour and flew up to here where it disappeared entirely. these are the search areas that have been put into place since that time. they start would the main search area that was up in this area and then they spread out over land and into the other, more westerly areas. the andamans, like you said, we ll have to adjust the whole map here. if you were it continue right up here, you d wind up at the andamans and a string of islands. close to 500 of them and they
we are now on our way to beijing, as was the original flight plan. so, everything is set up in that particular way. one of the things we should talk about, carol, is the redundancy factor something the pilot here had mentioned. this aircraft, the 777 200 designed to go long distances and be out in the middle of no where. multiple backup systems and some suggested maybe they lost power and electricity to all of this. there are backups to that, right? there are a lot of backups. the electrical system, just that one system has six separate backup systems. the hydraulics is backed up eight times. the electrical system you have two generators on each of the engines, two engines. two back-up generators and then you have the apu, another generator in the back of the plane and if all of that failed, there is another manual little thing that pops out of propeller
at 2:40, the plane lost contact with air traffic control. that s about all we know. so, you are on board this sim mu lay tore and you have taken off from kuala lumpur. where are you now? we just reached a cruising altitude of 35,000 feet. while you were in commercial break would have been the time i would have gotten on the address system and told everybody, hey, you can, if you want, unfasten your seat belts, get up and walk around the cabin. that would have been announced. the plane is basically now in automatic pilot mode and let me show you this. this is basically your it may have gait may have gags navigat system. see this one that says b todd,