hello i'm randy k in today for fredericka whitfield. authorities say france gave them a third satellite image today. chinese and australian satellite objects were spotted. crews did find something yesterday though a wooden p palette with strapping belts. it is not clear where that is from. today malaysian authorities clarified where that came from. officials say the plane was still heading for beijing. that debunks the idea that the computer was reprogrammed to take a difference route. i want to go to evan perez. you have covered this angle from

the beginning. what can you tell us about this latest development? >> reporter: the latest information released by authorities is changing our understanding of what may have happened and when. the last transmission at 1:07 am from the communication system showed quote normal routing and quote nothing unusual. this is peers to undercut the theory that the reprogramming before the pilot said quote good night". this reduces but does not rule out suspicions in the cockpit. it rules out the mystery of what happened aboard the flight two weeks ago. >> authorities are now sharing the hard drives that longed to

the pilots and what are they finding? >> in particular the one blo belonging to the captain, we have learned that there were deletions. this contained the flight sim y simulator that they have looked at. some were done after authorities began exsal am inning this. or some didn't enter the home. it is hard to explain this and i think the fbi is trying to figure that out now randy. a lot of concern that there is only two weeks left for the

battery life in the pinger are s. what happens at the end of those two weeks? >> that is a big concern. you want to find the field of debris if that is what happened to the plane. so that you can in case the batteries run are out on these pingers as they are called. it works like any battery operated device. it gets weaker and weaker. right now there is a two nautical mile seeker. and that gets less and less. they aare trying to figure out where. but they want to find where a general area that they can search so they can recover this andy. >> thank you so much. i want to chat much more about this. miles so nice to see you.

of justly first your reaction to this new information coming out that maybe it wasn't reprogrammed and to make that turn to the west before that last communication. >> it is a game changer to see the least. right now we have no evidence that the crew did anything wrong and now we should be operating with the primary assumption that something bad happened to that plane shortly after they said good night. was it a bomb that caused rapid decompression event in the cockpit. which caused power failures and communication failures. the right thing to do would have been to lower your altitude quickly. we know they mate a turn but we aren't sure of the scent.

i think when we start talking about this event we have to talk about some sort of pampering or bomb on the plane. or some sort of mechanical failure. i guess a lot of people wonder if there was a problem why wasn't there communication back to the ground telling them you need help. >> you are at 3500 feet and a bomb goes off and chaosen sues. you have this expression in flying you aviate, navigate and communication. they have 60 seconds before they get their oxygen masks on.

what happens if that same problem destroyed the system some way. they have 60 seconds to begin that descent. but maybe they don't have the capability of issuing a radio call or maybe they switched the audio panel. it is complicated. one of the things you do is you ensure that the thought they were transiting a call on may day. it is easy to second guess what may have happened. there is a scenario that you could build. if you had a perfectly placed

device. it is like a decaptation of the aircraft. the question remains how long did it fly. how we liable is that information are those primary blips that we have. we are not getting this data from the malaysian authorities from the view. i wish they could settle these issues for us publicly. stick around we want you to be a part of that conversation as well.

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>> reporter: it is going to make a left-hand turn up the straight. when it does that, this plane continues. 370 continues and right there connects with the two planes.

and another hour later it would be farther to the north and then to the last pain close to where this red line is. that is scary to where the things line up. if this is the same pattern we have a smoking gun. if the pings are off by 100 miles or more, we have talked and he has brought this theory to light on twitter. if you turn off the tr are rxtr, it only comes back. >> you know, at this point i'm

not going to rule anything out. however, the difficulty, we don't have know. when it comes time to tuck in. to catch up with the guy you are following, it would be a great piece of airman ship to make that work as you claim. trying to tuck in formation and thus at a steady speed. it is pretty close to his fire wall. it is not like there is a lot of extra speed for the flight to catch up.

>> when you get in the weight turbulence of that, you know it. i think it is an interesting conversation. we don't know. we don't know a lot. we are figuring it out d day-by-day. let's bring in the rest of our panel of experts who will be with us the rest of this hour. thank you for thinking with us.

kit, as the commercial pilot here in the bunch what do you think of the shadowplane theory? >> it would be an incredible piece of air manship. we frequently fly with 1,000, 2,000 foot separation. and it is possible. doing it right the first time would be something. >> as far as i understand it. you have a lot of questions, but you want to know what, who had access to this plane? that is all gone by the way side now. we talked about who had access. to any one the mechanics. but as i've gonna long and looked at the on again, off

again projection systems turned on and off. this is pilots taking this aircraft. if it went to 40,000 feet back to 30,000 and then to 5,000 one of the two pilots i believe is the person who committed this act and the other one was in compass tated or locked out of that cockpit. so, i still with the changes, the adjustments, no may day, it takes two or three key punches, no debris from the function. it doesn't fit to me as an

invest gator. i'm still believing it was the pilot. i know you disagree with that. i do. >> now that we've taken these weigh points that so tet it off the west. it was on its way to beijing when this happened. that is based on sketchy information as best i can tell. let's assume that the altitude changes did occur. that could indicate an aircraft in distress. that could indicator wrist are activity. i don't think we have the evidence to impun the pilots at this point. what about the families of the flight crew too. let's consider that.

the fact that a secondary route can be punched in without any body knowing it. he can put in both routes and copy your normal route to that. it can be programmed. i don't think it adds implication to the pilot here. just because we didn't have a reporting point we don't have that. it wouldn't mean it wouldn't be programmable into the flight management system. we are more than two weeks into the search how concerning is that? >> it is. but they did mind the air france black boxes without any use of the pingers it was two years

after the crash. it is possible if the wreckage is discovered that those bofl will be found. seeing wooden pallets in the sea is not evidence of an aircraft. maybe the search needs to be re-evaluated. >> do you agree with that? >> we seem to be searching in the ocean. is anybody searching on land? >> they were concerned about the forested areas and helicopters flew over there to look for break age of limbs or anything like that. i think in all of those countries at least 8 or 9 of them had radar that would have picked up. i think it is in the ocean. that is my judgement. >> john, miles, kit, thank you

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unanswered question s surroundig air loans s 370. susan malvo looks at possible reasons why. >> on september 11th when high jackers took over planes headed to new york and washington passengers onboard started making calls. those onboard reached out to loved ones sought help and warned others of the impending terrorist attacks but more missing flight 370, silence, no calls, no texts, no tweets. one theory that the phones

didn't work because of the plane's altitude. 45,000 feet was much too high for a signal right? possible but rare. >> no nearby cell towers. >> there was a point where there were a couple of major cities and towns and villages is it possible that those cities could have gotten to a tower? however, it is also possible that they weren't able to communicate. we have to be in touch to have a conversation. those onboard were able to have conversation because the planes were flying low.

but experts say, most of those calls were not made from cell phones but airline phones which use radio or satellite technology. one that has been faced out due to its high costs. but it had phones in the business class. they may have been disablded. but cnn analyst says the more likely scenario is that no one called even when the plane reversed course. >> the lights would have been dimmed. it was almost an hour into the flight. it was a very tranquil night. i understand the weather was good. nobody would have noticed anything. it would have been business as usual. if the cabin was depressurized,

at 30,000 feet passengers would have passed out in seconds. if they had. jen masked, they would have lasted 15 minutes. they are not ruling this out at all. if you believe someone onboard was trying to knock out the phones how difficult would it be to do that? who would know how to do such a thing? >> they say it would be relatively easy. the equipment including the phones could be disabled through the entary entertainment system. it is something that the pilots could do. it is located inside of the

cockpit. if that is turned off. passengers would be able not to make phone calls but unable to track the plane's flight and notice that this plane had turned around. we don't know what was going on around there if the systems were working ining or not. you can join the search for flight 370 on your computer. thousands are trying to find the missing plane. the colorado based company owns one of the world's most complex satellite networks. to learn more about how you can help go to cnn.comslas nxt nxcn. stay with us.

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martin savidge is live outside for us. if you would, take us through the significance showing that there was no routing change at all. >> i mean, certainly what it was, people said there had been a 12 minute window that a course correction had been some sinister taken away. but let me explain what i'm talk igabout. it is located in the cockpit on

this screen. for this particular scor story communicates every half hour. it doesn't require in put for the pilots. it sends out information. if that course change had been preprogrammed, it would have been with this which is the flight management system. think of it like the gps management for your car. they programmed it in 12 minutes ahead of time and the plane made the turn. that is not to say they couldn't turn the plane. i'm going to warn you. i'm taking it off of auto pilot and that is the way that this turn could have been made.

we believe the turn could have been made. another way that this could have happened would be through the automatic pilot. you wouldn't have to touch it here. >> very simple. there is a heading select here. we choose the heading that we are on. and all we have to do is choose the heading that we want. >> you can feel the aircraft as it makes it's turn. the fact that it wasn't programmed is very interesting but it doesn't rule in or rule out somebody taking control of the aircraft or pushing it up for united states. what would have happened if the plane had lost all the power? >> this is the scenario that mitchell and i have talked been

a number of times. it is hard to imagine that it would lose all of its power and the reason for that is there are five or six back up power ben raters. that is now four power generators. the apu in the tail, we have what is called a turbine which is a propeller it makes the spin. the air flow makes it spin and you get the electricity. with all of those systems it is hard to imagine where it goes out. you have to figure that is so catastrophic that it is hard to imagine a scenario where the power goes out and the plane can be operated. >> we want to bring in our

analyst miles o'brien and has been listening and has a lot of questions for you. but pick one of them. >> okay. i want to run this by mitchell and martin. the audio control bpanel. i counted 16 buttons. there is the audio control panel. granted you get used to that as time goes on. it is easy. you are broadcasting to the folks. so you have a high time captain who would have been flying and if he wasn't the flying pilot in this case. if he wasn't. he would have taken over. and you have a lower time first officer 200 hours in the aircraft in a chaotic situation. time is limited. and you have to get oxygen masks

on. all of these things have to happen in rapid sequence. the two things that he should be doing is trying to get a may day call. he has this 16 button panel. and he may or may not have been able to communicate to the air traffic controller. the other thing he should do is go to the transponder and there is a scenario where he could have turned the darn thing off.

all i can say, you can imagine, whether it is a small bomb or a window just broke. limited useful consciousness at 35,000 feet. the need to get down quickly. he may or may not have that muscle memory audio control panel. or the operation of the trance ponder. and that would have fallen to him. that is just a scenario that is worth thinking about.

>> they are trained and trained again i highly doubt that. he is a young guy and had 200 hours in the aircraft. >> it is nothing to nesneeze at. let me bring in the rest of our panel to join the discussion.

>> it may to me be possible that communication to me, may not be the first thing on their mind. they may not be attempting to communication in the beginning. we might also add if you take the scenario and they can do that in the scenario is to put on the oxygen mask. it is not that easy. it can disturb your mask and your glasses and it is difficult to talk and fly.

>> i have great empathy for anyone on that plane. for someone to indicate in the last session that i didn't have that. i would want to correct that quickly. i have said that time and time again that you have to be concerned about the family. i'm looking at the facts and i'm looking at the things that i see. i was structured in the beginning of saying who touched that airplane. one or the other took control of the plane. thank you all very much. one terri's many expert says

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that those on flight 370 may have survived. >> well, i would say it is possible. one of the things that would influence that and i know martin and mitchell would be doing a good job. he told me it was possible to take out surkait breakers and disengage them and the people in the back would become hypoxic and pass away. that would give us an opportunity to look at these theories and put it in the right context. when i look at this table, i find that some of the scenarios, not at majority of them, some still offer the possibility that there might have been survivors from thishorrible accident. some that were in the crash.

i would like to focus on people than on the equipment. i was pleased to see them the other day talk about the rescue not the recovery. when you look at the imagery and the size of that, it is the size of the large evacuation rafts that are on the size of the large boeing aircraft. maybe that is what we are seeing. maybe the resources are ready. i think there is more that we could be do iing. >> the australians have a ship on the way. we have the ability to refuel the helicopter.

it is something that we should be prepared for. it would be wterrible to not ge them the help, if we identified them as a raft. >> do you think that somebody would have known what to do? >> the flight attendant would if

they survived. some of them were trained if they were in a flight or unthe water. >> the life rafts were deployed. until we know that everybody is passed away we have to do everything we can even if it is going to be to rescue one or two people. all right. jeff appreciate that. appreciate your time and your thoughts. thank you so much. we'll bring the panel back after one more round after a quick break. need to ah contact your insurance company with the vin number. oh, i just did it. with my geico app. vin # is up to the loaded. ok well then jerry here will take you through all of the features then. why don't weeeeeeeeeeee go out to the car. ok, i'll just be outside... ok, yeah. his dad is my boss.

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certainly it is possible that these pilots could have done this directly. they could have been dealing with the problem headed for home and something else had gone wrong. it could have been a big problem with a small pilot error. so, rather than say what i think it is i'm going to say i don't believe it is the pilots. >> all right. >> i would say, cameras, not allow them to long it anymore from the inside and not be able to get in from the outside. they have had discharge of firearms in the cockpit they have flown by airports, it is time for transtarentcy.

>> this decompression, what if, those that whatever caused that decompression also damaged the oxygen system that was designed to feed the pilots and there was no oxygen. suddenly you have what we have been calling the zombie plea. >> i know you believe that is very possible. i'm a pilot too. i firmly believe that people are innocent until proven guilty. we will continue to dig on this story and continue to watch the details until they come out and change every day. thank you all and we'll continue our coverage in a moment. don lemmon picks up with the latest on the version.

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hello, thank you for joining us. right now i need to tell you that a chinese search plane is set to take off looking for evidence for flight 370. as the sunrises over the indian ocean now, crews will launch a new effort to find out what happened to 239 people onboard that missing jet. the french gave them a new satellite image floating in the ocean. chinese and satellite images spotted it in the ocean. we have an update from malaysian

authorities. they say it showed normal routing all the way to beijing. we are covering every single apgle angle of this for you. so let's get right to it for you. yes and absolutely they are understanding that they have a tough task ahead of them.