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Navigation. it is similar to the gps in your car but a lot more complicated. we are coming up on igary, a checkpoint in the sky at which this aircraft will turn and make a slight turn to the right. b todd is the last point where they were seen. it was right about the handover from malaysian air space into vietnamese air space. it is a crucial time, no the a time when a pilot or co-pilot would say, go use the bathroom. >> any time you are crossing into another countrys air space, you have to chec...

It would be one of the two pilots. >> and as far as we know, you know, malaysia is not releasig lots and lots of information, there could have been other voices in the cockpit, too, right? >> could have been. sure. i mean, theyve showed themselves. in a u.s. carrier or european carrier, you wouldnt find extra people in the cockpit unless they were qualified and probably either faa employees or employees of the airline. >> and, tom, malaysian authorities have been camped outside of this pilots ho...

Towards. we have no reports of injuries or tsunami warnings, thats important, because ships are going to be in that area. it just adds to the whole weirdness, the sadness around this missing plane. lets return to our discussion of the last-known moments inside the cockpit of malaysian airlines flight 370. martin and mitchell casada are inside a boeing 777. this is about the time when the data reporting systems are said to have shut down. >> right, carol. let me tell you where we are. we are at 3...

That the malaysian 370 was at. we are beginning to take off. we are heading down the runway. everything you see mitchell doing is everything that the pilot and co-pilot would have been doing. im in the co-pilot seat. it is designed to mirror exactly the course. mitchell was just putting in all the coordinates that we will follow. we have followed their course. we will go with their altitude and move at the planes speed. all of this to design and give you the feel of what they were going through....

Carol, many people are wondering why malaysian officials havent searched their homes like they say. back to you. >> that is curious and were going to talk about that in just a little bit. pamela brown, thank you so much. tom fuentes law enforcement analyst and bob. the last words heard from the cockpit was all right, good night. we dont know who said this. is there a way to determine who said it and is it important? >> i wouldnt consider that to be surprising. i mean, if youre going off as a pil...

Minutes to an hour ago and following the highway in the sky. were on this pink line right here you can see on the navigation system. the reason were not touching the controls is just like 370, were on automatic pilot. were currently up at an altitude of 35,000 feet. so everything that we know about the plane at the time it disappeared, we are sort of re-creating and reliving here. lets talk about some vital equipment. a lot has been said about the transponder. where is it here? it is actually lo...

>> every flight we have whats called the pilot flying the pf and the pnf, the pilot flying and the pilot not flying. it is customary for the captain to be flighting left seat. if he was flying pf, he would be making sure that the plan is on track, flying, mentally engaged. first officer, pnf, pilot not flying, checking the weather, talking to air traffic control. >> remaining engaged. whats interesting is if there is not an input by somebody, a pilot, in this airplane, every ten minutes, the air...

There is a hijacking because the pilot could enter a code. it transmits. on the ground, thats recognized. thats what mitchell is talking about. one of the first things they would do is lets get somebody up on that plane. >> that may have happened. the malaysian government is not telling us. tell us that again. if the data reporting system shut down and also the transponder shut down, there would be many things happening on the ground. what would be happening? >> they would be aware on the ground...

Approaching 1,000. here is our speed. the goal is to eventually get to 35,000 feet. thats the last known altitude we knew and very shortly, here, mitchell is going to put us into autopilot, because the plane was flying at auto-pilot when it was last referenced. this was everything as it was happening a it was happening that night as we knew it. lets point out something pretty important here. the transponder. it was apparently for some reason off. why did it go off? here it is, this little device...

We are at an altitude of 35,000 feet. we are not touching the controls because we are on automatic pilot. it was a night sky then. everything replicating down to the roof. you will see that in pink what they were flying leaving from kuala lumpur to beijing and they never made it. they disappeared at a point right here. we are 71 miles away and resz than ten miles of arriving at that point in the flight. after that moment that communication was lot of after the line of all right, good night. that...