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Larger investigation. jon? jon: thank you, trey. meanwhile, more than 30 people are injured after a flight landing in new york encounters severe turbulence. dramatic video from inside the boeing 777 shows terrified passengers and crew members as well as bloodied overhead luggage combater ifments that occurred just before the landing. one passenger says they were kept in the dark as the plane made its rocky descent. >> were talking about big shake like, you know, like the plane going up and down,...

>> it doesnt matter how many times you have done t you do it religiously. that is absolute foundation of safety in aviation. >> this video shows him training on the 777, flight 370 was the first time flying. >> just coming out of rigorous training. >> captain shaw, with 18 hours in the air and a stellar reputation. >> we go back three yea30 years. >> a former pilot.

Off. a-card system being turned off. the plane turned, at least twice, probably three times. >> and most perflecting, no distress calls. >> there are so many ways, vhf radios, many, many way, none of it happened. >> could the difference of mh 370 be deliberate? passing through the security at the night of the flight. he was only 27 years old. farid. >> young to be flying a 777 in the u.s. he had gone through the gates, and passed and was with a senior guy. >> he had no known motive or

So far no miracles. >> theres more than a thousand 777s out there. that speaks to the crucial nature of finding the aircraft. not just for the humanitarian reasons of those on board. but theyve got to know what happened. and the only way youre going to do it is to find the aircraft. will we find it? i hope so. as long as we continue to look, there will be a chance it will be found. >> since its disappearance, investigators have searched over 144,000 square miles in the southern indian ocean. in ...

Reputation. >> kept zahari and me, we go back about 30 years. we started flying together. >> nick huslan a former chief pilot for malaysia airlines. >> my wife is a chief stewardess. so if my wife is onboard the aircraft, i would like zahari to fly the plane, then, because ive got great confidence in the guy. >> and there was real confidence in the aircraft theyre about to fly, the boeing 777. >> its a great airplane. its got a sterling record of safety. >> that aircraft is actually the pinnacle...

Reason to take down the plain. >> there was no. you go from a small plane to a big plane. this was his promotion. >> richard quest gained permission to fly in bon one of his last training flights on the boeing 777. there was no question, he was a qualified, he landed. perfectly.

>> i would like him to fly the plane. i have confidence in him. >> there is confidence in the aircraft they are about to fly. the boeing 777. >> it is a great airplane. a sterling record of safety. t >> after making their final preparations, the pilots are ready for push back. >> at 12:32 a.m., the pilots taxi to the runway.

Now. two minutes after talking with air traffic control, 40 minutes into the flight, the transponder goes dark. it. is the instrument that sends out a signal to air traffic control. it tells what height, which direction and speed it is traveling. suddenly, this giant 777 is blind to the world. >> there is no easy explanation for why it happened. >> either it was intentional, someone tried to turn all the systems off at once or the pilot was kept from communicating or a mechanical failure that to...

Blimp, they dont know with the speed erratic. it is mh 370. >> if you see something flying toward your country at 500 knots, that should raise concerns quickly. >> it didnt seem to. by now, the 777 is believed to be hundreds of miles off the original course. >> we dont know what is normal for their military. the big part of the problem with the investigation, is that the malaysians were tight lipped what what they knew, what they knew it. >> the air force continued to traffic the plane until it ...

Of malaysia airlines flight 370. it starts right now. >> the follow suggest a cnn special report. >> it has been five years since a state of the art aircraft disappeared. >> nobody expects a 777 to vanish. it doesnt happen. >> where is malaysia airlines flight 370? >> hundreds of loved ones missing. years of searching. >> it is in the most remote part of the world. >> the surprises. >> debris found off reunion island in the indian ocean.