lumpur or to the nearest airport, not to turn off to the west as it did and then to have several course changes. those course changes are what tell me that regardless of what happened this was not an in-flight emergency, this was purposeful. so you re saying, john, that if the crew had been overcome or was dealing with some sort of mechanical issue, there would not have been those course changes? i don t think there would have. those course changes it could turn out were not the correct information. we ve had other russian pulled out from under us in the last number of days. but if they did change course very severely a numbers of times before the straits of malacca that is not indicative of an airplane out of control. on top of that we ve got the situation here where the turn to begin with whether it was programmed before or not was off in the wrong direction. if we had a fire, remember swiss air 110 it progressed, would
even if they were having problems keeping control of the airplane because of smoke or fumes, there would have been an attempt to go back to kuala lumpur or to the nearest airport, not to turn off to the west as it did and then to have several course changes. those course changes are what tell me that regardless of what happened this was not an in-flight emergency, this was purposeful. so you re saying, john, that if the crew had been overcome or was dealing with some sort of mechanical issue, there would not have been those course changes? i don t think there would have. those course changes it could turn out were not the correct information. we ve had other rugs pulled out from us in a number of ways in the last few days. but if they did change course very severely a numbers of times before the straits of malacca that is not indicative of an airplane out of control. on top of that we ve got the situation here where the turn to begin with whether it was programmed before or not was
we re all standing on a stack of assumed facts. and every day they seem to change. but the thing is that there is an opportunity here and a lot of opportunity for something to be said if it happened, anything happened before including smoke in the cockpit. and the turn afterward would make sense if the the turn was back. even if they were having problems keeping control of the airplane because of smoke or fumes, there would have been an attempt to go back to kuala lumpur or to the nearest airport, not to turn off to the west as it did and then to have several course changes. those course changes are what tell me that regardless of what happened this was not an in-flight emergency, this was purposeful. so you re saying, john, that if the crew had been overcome or was dealing with some sort of mechanical issue, there would not have been those course changes? i don t think there would have. those course changes it could turn out were not the correct information. we ve had other rugs p
great to have both of you with us. there s so much here to talk about. but when we put this reporting together, john, we have a plane that turned off of its flight path, started to switch direction dramatically, switch altitude dramatically and seemed to level out heading out. and then made a choice, i m going to go left or right. when you put all that together, let s faulk about motive. who would want to do this or could this have happened in any way, shape or form with everybody on the plane being incapacitated or dead, the plane just kept flying? i think not. i think that s ruled out by the very physiology of it. the aircraft is not going to make course changes. it might make altitude changes. if this plane went up to 45,000 feet after it turned off course and it sustained that 45,000 foot altitude, which is above
marks and john nance. great to have you both with us. let me start with you because there s so much here to talk about now but when we put all of this reporting together, john, we have a plane that turned off of its flight path, started to switch direction dramatically, switch altitude dramatically and then finally seemed to sort of level out heading out and then made a choice. i m going to go left or i m going to go right. when you put all that together, let s talk about motive. who would want to do this or could this have happened in any way, shape or form with everybody on the plane being incapacitated or dead and the plane kept flying? i think not. i think that s ruled out by the very physiology of it. the aircraft is not going to make course changes. it might make altitude changes but you would see the type of altitude change would not be sharp. if it went up to 45,000 feet after it turned away and off course and it sustained that 45,000 foot altitude which is