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Investigation. the kind of phraseology that were using ive used before, others have. ive heard it in times in the dark of night. so it doesnt automatically jump out to me. >> would you repeat something six minutes later that you already said before? >> it depends on what else was going on at that moment. i dont know what else he may have heard or caused him to say that once again. thats a puzzle. i dont have the answer for that. >> mary, if you were investigating this, would you put any importan...

Ill-fated turn. >> weve got to look at what we know. we know the acars went out of. we know the communication saying, all right good night. the transponder was turned off. its vital. it gives position. it gives squawk, 2157. we know from yesterday what the transcript said and we know it was at flight level three-five-zero. this is unequivocal data but its the last we have. we know that they were told to go to 120.9. they didnt go. what were the emergency protoco protocols. there was a distress c...

Lost communication. >> the rest reads like a normal cockpit transcript. someone saying good day and good morning while the plane was taxiing. during the takeoff at 12:42 a.m., someone said "departure malaysian 370." about 15 minutes into the flight, another voice transmission. "malaysian 370 maintaining flight level 350." then the final words recorded "good night malaysian 370" as sources tell cnn theyre treating the left turn a criminal act by someone on board. >> theyre not using the transcrip...

Not unusual, but it was cancelled because of low air traffic volume. so effectively, they dont have to go out to five miles, climb to 4,000 feet, it turn right, climb to flight level whatever it is. they can just go direct to the next way point. so i think there was some specifics in there that tell us that actually its fairly normal in terms of the conversations that existed. and also that theres a -- theres inconsistency in some of the radio calls. sometimes they dont always sign off and say "...

Cockpit transcript. someone saying good day and good morning while the plane was taxiing. then during the flights takeoff, someone said departure malaysian 370. about 51 -- 15 minutes, main tining flight level 3-5-0. and then just before the final words were recorded, malaysian 370 contact good night. this as they tell cnn theyre treating the planes sharp left turn as a quote, "criminal act" carried out by one of the pilots or someone else on board. revealing what appears to be a routine flight ...

Out, we decided to with the simulator run through everything we knew of 370, going from waiting at the gate, the passengers loading, then the pushback, the taxi on the runway. the takeoff. everything. and pretty much it came out exactly the same. i wont say used the same radio calls, but almost the same step by step. so it doesnt seem under the ordinary, with the exception that mitchell, one point towards the very end, malaysian 370 maintaining flight level 3500, meaning 35,000 feet. and just ab...

Knots. and when it gets to 12,000 feet its going to level off on that heading and the throttles are going to come up and that airplane is going to hold 275 knots or whatever that heading is set until it runs out of gas if no one intervenes. that may explain at the high powered setting this they were going faster than 250. if he used flch to do an emergency descent, that filter flight level change, that gets you down the very fastest. the auto throttles pull them back to idle. at 12,000 fight the...

Simulator, martin savidge and mitchell casavo. and miles obrien and richard quest. theres a question that miles brought up two nights ago if one engine konked out before the other. can you show us how that would impact the planes heading? >> reporter: right. miles and i actually spoke on the telephone and sort of worked this through. so mitchell casado will shut down one engine. >> this is the fuel control for the engines. left engine, right engine. pull the fuel control lever cutoff. you can se...

Even though it is a jumbo jet. and in this scenario weve set up is that one engine will turn off. essentially, the fuel begins to run up, we lose the left engine. the simulator shows that now. theres the engine shutdown. tell us whats going on on the screen there, mitchell. >> this is the left engine gauges, right engine gauges. and were basically seeing this engine shut down. so, its decreasing. this is the temperature inside the engine, its decreasing because its not working anymore. the speed...

About how information has changed one from being accurate to not accurate. but if that is accurate, the idea is that it looks like it could have been a controlled descent. i think thats important as opposed to the aircraft just descending as if its crashing. or intentionally dropped to 12,000 feet by the pilots. >> okay. stand by. les? >> well, its -- its a great point. i think that if there was some compelling reason to get down lower, albeit loss of pressurization or a fire, you know, to evacu...