new details about what fighter pilots did to get the attention of an unresponsive pilot for his private jet crashed in virginia. new information just in about when the trouble began. we begin with exclusive new reporting on a previously unreported episode in the mar-a-lago documents case. it comes as attorneys for the former president met today with justice department officials and signed signs increasingly indicate that special counsel jack smith s probe could be in its final stage. cnn s kaitlan collins is here with more. so, walk us through this exclusive reporting about mar-a-lago. it s a bit of a bizarre story, so bear with me. it was in last october, we are told that this maintenance worker at mar-a-lago drained april. and when they joined the pool, it caused a flood that flooded this room. we are told it has the computer servers, which store the surveillance footage on them. that s important because we know prosecutors have been looking at the surveillance footage
qualifications, the maintenance records, all aspects will be of course, items that we routinely look at. the flight path shows a takeoff in tennessee, at its destination at new york s long island, the plane turns, but doesn t land. instead, it keeps flying at 40,000 feet, right into highly restricted airspace near washington d. c.. the capital briefly placed on an elevated alert, and air national guard pilots scrambled to intercept. causing a sonic boom heard around the beltway. but norad says the pilots got no response to fly by s, players, or radio calls. [inaudible] [inaudible] authorities say the plane was not shot down, but if it appeared to be a threat. they do have the ability to shoot down a civilian aircraft, if that is required. the plane was tracked until it crashed into the mountains of central virginia. there were four people on board, including the pilot and the plane owner s daughter, granddaughter, and her nanny, according to the new york times.
about the 370 s flying altitude. why did it drop below 2 12 12,000 feet and fly for seven hours? one of them the plane descends and the plane turns. in one way it looks like an emergency and another way it looks like something else. we still don t know what happened to flight 370. and we have not found any part of that plane. i m back now with richard quest and cnn aviation analyst miles o brien. jeff wise, arthur rosenberg, also mary schiavo, an attorney for victims of transportation accidents. captain bobby skoaly, richard,
when this one came, not at the very hourly point, it came eight hours after the previous report. that s clearly why this jumps out of the data. what would that mean? why would a plane send that ping outside of reports? that s right where we are, the question of the day, is this when it hits the water? is this what causes some partial burst of information as the electron nicks in the aircraft are inundated with water? whatever information data burst is available, that s what they are looking at. this could be something that might send out a burst, not on its scheduled hourly report possibly hitting the water. also the theory that possibly when the plane turns, because it has an antenna on each wing, this could be a turn as the plane was heading down? again, possibly. those are the things that
question but we also got an official response from malaysian airlines and what malaysian officials have told us is this. they have said quote we regret the sense at this afternoon s press conference involving some of the relatives of passengers on board 370. one can only imagine the anquish they are going. malaysia is doing everything it can to find mh370. it s the sheer amount of conflicting information that has come out. we have seen the timeline change not once but a number of times. and it s going back and forth, exactly when did the plane turns was it did it have a pre-programmed plan to divert away from its original flight path. what more do we know about the pilot and co-pilot. this is information the families want to know. they are getting conflicting