. at first flight 370 was just delayed. then missing and then feared crashed. but a fourth idea started to take hold within 24 hours of take off, that it plane had been hijacked. our chief intelligence correspondent has been tracking that part of the story from washington. reporter: within hours of the jet s dairs peerns investigators focused on two painings who used stolen passports to board flight 370. the men purchased those ticket through an iranian middle man. intelligence officials emphasize that while the men s profiles were run through multiple databases, no positive hits for terrorism were found. it was later determined that at least one of the iranians was meeting his mother in germany. while all the passenger back grounds were scrubbed, malaysian investigators would not rule anything out. we are looking into four
had been on the radio earlier. our information had been but this is just from one faa source that the captain had not been on the radio on this airplane journey. mike, your thoughts on it because the on sense of the may day call. many people have talked about it yet we learned in the pane stuart airplane crash which was a so called zombie flight where the decompression had happened and no one was flying the aircraft, there wasn t a mayday situation there, either. no, because it was a catastrophic incident that took the airplane out. it flew for several hours before it crashed. absolutely that could be the case. there s no question. again, the question is was the airplane turned by the pilot? was it turned by the navigation system. those are all open questions. there s a will the of plausible answers here. i still smell something. one thing that bothers me is the assumption that the trajectory that the airplane was making
he s also suspect for his politics. just hours before he took control of flight 370, the government sentenced his distant relative and opposition leader to jail. to some meaningless, to others a motive. this all leads to the cockpit with the pilot himself and co-pilot. also in focus, first officer, age 27. he joined malaysian air five years ago and just graduated to the 777. its his voice last heard from the plane disappears with no sense of distress. this 2011 photo shows him with two women. he invited into the cockpit for an hour of smoking and flirting. one called the experience friendly but sleaze sleazy. he took my friends hand and said you re a very creative person. malaysia said the two pilots did not request to fly together
to 26 and then. according to officials, they are telling me at least within the first 26 minutes of the flight the pilots were already changing the flight path. we now know that within those first 26 minutes, they had reprogrammed the flight plan and were already starting to turn west far before they even stienstien sign off with air traffic control. the reason why remains a mystery. malaysian authorities reveal the plane s communication system could have been shut down any time between 1:07 and 1:37 a.m. the total search area is now more than two million square nautical miles. the next day we learned that files had been deleted from the
had been on the radio earlier. our information had been but this is just from one faa source that the captain had not been on the radio on this airplane journey. mike, your thoughts on it because the on sense of the may day call. many people have talked about it yet we learned in the pane stuart airplane crash which was a so called zombie flight where the decompression had happened and no one was flying the aircraft, there wasn t a mayday situation there, either. no, because it was a catastrophic incident that took the airplane out. it flew for several hours before it crashed. absolutely that could be the case. there s no question. again, the question is was the airplane turned by the pilot? was it turned by the navigation system. those are all open questions. there s a will the of plausible answers here. i still smell something. one thing that bothers me is the assumption that the trajectory that the airplane was making