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Those deleted files? >> i think so. i hope so. at least, it will tell us what it was he was practicing. and what locations he was aiming for and what the headings and settings were that he put into that flight sim. >> the designated path from kuala lumpur to beijing, china, was programmed into the aircrafts flight management computer, which controls speed, direction, even altitude. but according to the transpon r transponder, 26 minutes after takeoff, that prearranged course was dramatically alt...

Those deleted files? >> i think so. i hope so. at least, it will tell us what it was he was practicing. and what locations he was aiming for and what the headings and settings were that he put into that flight sim. >> the designated path from kuala lumpur to beijing, china, was programmed into the aircrafts flight management computer, which controls speed, direction, even altitude. but according to the transpon r transponder, 26 minutes after takeoff, that prearranged course was dramatically alt...

Off the coast of australia, nothing so far. a huge attention to what happened in the cockpit. could some clues be buried deep in its memory. that is something the fbi is trying to find out. >> we know the pilot had deleted some of the data from the system or there was data deleted from the system. we dont know it was the pilot. like your old male-mails and ot computer files. our pamela brown is in washing wi washington with details. pam, why dont we start with you and give us an idea of what inv...

Part of their investigation into his home, they are also going to be looking at his computer, websites, that the captain and first officer, who are both under scrutiny, they will look at that as well. >> just so we are clear, the flight simulator is on a computer. it is just microsoft flight sim mu lay tore that you can go buy off the shelf. it just had a lot of customization to it. it is just an ordinary computer program like a gaming program that you might find. there are three things you are ...

Turn like that? well, its not uncommon -- who has extensive experience to put in an emergency, go back to base sort of turn in case they run into trouble, but it also raises question about whether there was some sort of plot being worked out and this was all part of that plot. and so, its a really rather large development, one that the investigators can use to try to piece together a story, but what they really cant do is answer the question until they get some sort of wreckage. hopefully a blac...

Malaysian authorities say so far, any, all the searches that have been done of the captain and first officers homes, computers, the flight sim sim later, its turned up nothing suspicious. >> its not like they got that computer two minutes ago. it doesnt take much for a forensic review of the hard disk to say was this a, was there like a practice on the simulator so they can now say hey, it looks like he followed that rehearsal that was on the flight simulator. i think one of the questions that i...