things like that says someone as experienced of the pilot of mh-370 would have had no need to proon a similarity. his view, the only reason we have been using it would be to try unfamiliar, untested routes. you know, you can fly any airport on the planet geographically and top graphically, correct. virtually any airplane. so there are millions of people out there who enjoy flight simulation and fly all over the world with this tool and it s not unusual for a pilot to practice. you want to fly a new route, right? get bored with the regular route to beijing. and he may have been flying i don t know if he flew those trips during his rotation as a pilot. and if he did woe want to practice. nothing nasty about that right there s so many questions here but again this is the key piece of data that we have. so obviously, everyone is going to be obsessing over it. thanks very much to both of you, ed and jay. next, one of the things investigators need to know, was the pilot practicin
end of their rope, it was a chaotic scene here in kuala lumpur. they went in a briefing room, tried to post a huge poster demanding answers. they were taken away forcibly by security before the press conference. john. again, jim, another key detail we did learn that will pop out to some peep, that flight simulator they now confiscated from the pilot, they say there has been some data that was deleted from that flight simulator and they re working to retrieve it. this could be nothing. it s interesting it took them a week to take ahold of this flight simulator to begin with in this investigation, now, they re learning they say some data was deleted. reporter: and so far, there s nothing on the simulator that s untoward. nothing whatsoever. he was an enthusiast. he was online on talking about flight simulation, and what a fun hobby it was. the indications don t point to
at that flight simulation, what was on the deleted data. no indication that there was anything significant. but they re looking at that. the other thing is whether or not this diverted flight plan was preprogrammed into the computer before communication was cut off. this is something that they re looking at but they ve not had any concrete details at this point. in terms of the search they now seem to be focusing on a very specific area off the west coast of australia. and looking at 600 square kilometers. that seems to indicate that they believe that perhaps the flight came over there and crashed into the indian ocean. the problem is it s been 12 days. in that time currents have probably taken the debris anywhere across the indian ocean. looking for it at this point is going to be very difficult, wolf. atika shubert in equal kual r
suspicious. the files are tiny and if they were just in a casual flight just for entertainment or for practice, that s why it would never be saved and there would be no need to delete it. a company called pmdg, manufacturer of the software captain shah used in his simulator said he had no relation to them. in an e-mail, they defended shah, saying those who connect his love of flight simulation to the plane s disappearance are engaging in wild conjecture that s insulting to pilots. if it was deleted, how do they reconstruct it? it s taking a known, good image of that data. because they re familiar with the program, they have an edge. so, they can go in, they can get an idea of the overall structure of that data and what it looks like on the inside of the file. from that point, they can go on to the pilot s hard drive and search on that for the specific