flight plan if you re the co pilot or pilot. and yet if you look at the circumstantial evidence, the most potentially problematic thing for the co pilot, he was the one that communicating at 1:19, all right, good night, it looks like this plane had already turned off its course. have we heard from the captain at all? not that i know of. that s been the problem through this whole thing, the dripping of information from the malaysians. we found out a few days ago, it was the co pilot who signed off. when we get the information, sometimes it s changed, sometimes it s so late, we wasted time looking in an area we shouldn t have been looking in. before i let you go, what do
officials involved in the investigation, they say in the first 26 minutes of the flight the pilots were already changing the flight path. so what we originally thought the plane had gone up, flying the original course to beijing then signing off with air traffic control and then making the westerly turn, we now know within the first 26 minutes they had re-programmed the flight plan and were already starting to turn west far before they even signed off with air traffic control. so the pilots had intentionally changed their path, but the reason why remains a mystery. malaysian authorities reveals the plane s acars system could have been shut down between 1:27 and 1:37 a.m., not necessarily before the co-pilot signed off. the search area is now more than 230 square nautical miles. the files were deleted from the