Missing Plane’s Off-Flight Path Was Reportedly Programmed into Plane Computer

Missing Plane’s Off-Flight Path Was Reportedly Programmed into Plane Computer (Mediaite)

The New York Times has a new report out tonight saying that the missing Malaysia Airlines plane was diverted from its path not by autopilot, but by a computer system on the plane that had to have been skilled enough to program it in in the first place. The Times report says, “whoever altered Flight 370’s path typed seven or eight keystrokes into a computer on a knee-high pedestal between the captain and the first officer.”

Times reporter Michael Schmidt talked to Megyn Kelly Monday night about the breaking story, saying this means the divergent path could not have been taken manually by a pilot and that whoever did this “had to have known what they were doing.”

A waypoint was added to the route the flight was supposed to take, as investigators discovered as they went through the radar tapes.