Good morning. Im frances rivera. One plane, 239 missing passengers and now 25 countries involved in a search and rescue operation. Officials now say flight 370 was diverted because of a deliberate action by someone on board. And now we know the final message came after a Communications System was shut down. All right, good night. Those haunting words calmly spoken to air Traffic Controllers and just this morning we learned that Malaysia Airlines believed those last words were from the planes pilot. Nbcs keir simmons is in kuala lumpur. Good morning, keir. Reporter this is a navy p3 orion on board advanced submarine detection sensors that can look even beneath the ocean. Today it is going to be flying over the indian ocean as the search for flight 370 is vastly expanded. It is now 25 countries involved in helping this search, and as well over the ocean, they are searching across 11 separate countries and incredible operation to try to establish what exactly happened. Meanwhile, the Inve
Since it happened. And tonight for the next hour were going to answer your questions. Like what are the odds the pilots are in this together . Why do you trust that pakistan has no radar evidence of the plane . And what if the plane is in the and what if the plane is in the hands of hijackers . Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com and i want to go to our breaking news. Here now with that is michael smith, one of the reporters on that story. We are reporting that the first diversion that the plane made on its path was done was done by a Computer System on the plane. And not done manually by anyone on the plane for that matter. What happened was is that someone on the plane put into the Computer System that sits between the pilots a new direction for the plane to go in and that is why the plane moved. We believe this is significant because the investigators believe its significant because it shows that whoever did this had some expertise in flying. This was not just someone on the plane who
Questions. Like what are the odds the pilots are in this together . Why do you trust that pakistan has no radar evidence of the plane . And what if the plane is in the hands of hijackers . And i want to go to our breaking news. Here now with that is michael smith, one of the reporters on that story. We are reporting that the first diversion that the plane made on its path was done was done by a Computer System on the plane. And not done manually by anyone on the plane for that matter. What happened was is that someone on the plane put into the Computer System that sits between the pilots a new direction for the plane to go in and that is why the plane moved. We believe this is significant because the investigators believe its significant because it shows that whoever did this had some expertise in flying. This was not just someone on the plane who grabbed the controls and moved it. This reinforces the belief that this plane was deliberately diverted in some way perhaps by the captain o
A grim announcement from malaysias Prime Minister declaring that flight 370 ended in the remote area of the southern indian ocean, a conclusion based on an unprecedented analysis of satellite data. Grief and agony as relatives are told that all lives are lost. Malaysia Airlines Says it informed most of the family in person or by phone but some got the word through text message. Some are accusing malaysian authorities are hiding the truth. Aircraft are hunting for debris after planes spotted objects in the indian ocean search zone. An australian vessel is headed towards the sightings. Lets begin with our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. Shes got the latest. Barbara . They actually relied on embarrassingly old maps to make this hightechnical cue lags about how this plane was moving and the way it was moving away from their satellite and that let them calculate where the plane went down offering new information that the u. S. And malaysia have suspected for days. For grief stricken f
Last transmission, all right, good night. This would suggest a plan was under way to deliberately divert the plane when the words were spoken. This is what i want you to look at. This is what we know. 1 07 a. M. , acars makes the last transmission. 1 19 a. M. , all right, good night radioed from the pock pit. The last verbal communication. 1 21 a. M. The transponder was switched off or stopped working and at 1 37 and this is the key 30minute window, the acars system fails to make planned contact here leading some to think the plane may have gone down. But no because you see at the bottom, 2 15 in the morning, military radar detects the plane hundreds of miles off course. At 8 11 a. M. , more than seven hours after take off, a satellite made the last electronic connection known as a hand shake with the plane, but the thing with that hand shake is its not specific. It doesnt give location. Based upon the time that passed, it does tell us it was somewhere, you see this huge red ark. Somew