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Amount of skill and knowledge of the air space. and its not something that is just done, you know, on spur of the moment. it would have had to have been planned. so its very disturbing. but its starting to form a pattern that it is pointing with increased emphasis to the cockpit. >> absolutely. because once it avoided indonesian radar and malaysia -- it was wide open ocean, right? other than any kind of slight data that -- they were able to track. >> its surprising that nothing was found on the ...

Thing that theyve done. and its unfair to the families. >> steven, your belief is that boeing is playing a critical role in this investigation. ive not seen anything from boeing out in front on this case thus far. whats the basis for you saying that along with the malaysians theyre playing this pivotal role? >> well, i have been involved in most every accident investigation and representing families for the last 30 years. i know in every one of them under annex 13 of iko, the international civil...

Long haul. >> appreciate the updates. transcripts of conversations between the plane and air traffic control have been released. but theres nothing in it that can answer the question what happened. and a senior malaysian official confirming the malaysian government has received an fbi report on the pilot and co-pilot and what was on their flight simulators. apparently no leads there. with lead after lead turning up nothing, the answers family members want are getting more out of reach. jim sciut...

Little bits together, its clear that the assumptions are leading up to a conclusion instead of looking at all of the facts with an open mind and keeping all the possibilities open. and i think its a dangerous thing that theyve done. and its unfair to the families. >> steven, your belief is that boeing is playing a critical role in this investigation. ive not seen anything from boeing out in front on this case thus far. whats the basis for you saying that along with the malaysians theyre playing ...

>> let me just say weve been talking to government officials who say that the fbi has been looking at the computer hard drives and the flight simulators that the malaysians gave to the fbi, asking them to do an analysis. and so far according to our sources, they havent seen anything yet that would lead them to any conclusions about a nefarious action here. they dont have any concrete evidence coming out of those hard drives that would lead them to believe that they can pinpoint the captain. that...

And this is, as i said, its a progressing story. and im at it, and i hope to get more information from him. i do believe that he knows more than what he is telling me, but that he is all he is telling me for now. >> okay. a stung report by mah iram makrishnan for us tonight from kuala lumpur. joining us right now is nbc news correspondent tom costello who has been following this story for the past three weeks. tom, i have to tell you, you and i were talking, and you are the expert in trying figu...

Used satellite data in this fashion. is that correct? >> no. for those of are who were not strong mathematic majors, im impressed by the entire thing. the concept that the satellite can detect that minuscule shift to calculate that location is incredible. >> we have heard a lot that at homes or pilots having access to flight simulators is a fairly common occurrence. in your experience is an in-home simulator something that many pilots have? >> yeah, in fact i had one on my laptop computer. with ...

That the planes unexpected sharp turn south 40 miles after takeoff was no accident. the fbis already looking at the pilots flight simulators. but our next guest says theyll need a lot more evidence to find out what really happened. tim murphy is a former deputy director for the fbi. we continue to focus on these pilots because we have nothing else to focus on. is that where you would focus? >> i think if the fbi is doing this. and theyre not leading the investigation. theyre assisting in the inv...

Happen, its sort of like muscle memory. they go back to a mental process theyve already done before. if the engine does quit on a small airplane, theyve already done it 15 times in the simulator and the airplane as well. >> coming up on 3,000. >> both the engines are wound back. >> i feel like were losing thrust, were losing thrust. >> although im not a licensed pilot, ive had plenty of flight instruction. i got the chance to land my own plane in the hudson river in one of the universitys 36 fli...

Overwritten can be meaningful. >> it depends what the erasure is. all of us who have flight simulators, you want to land, try to see if you can land. most of us dont do it successfully. but you want to try to see if you can land at the weirdest places on earth. so just flying around the earth and seeing different places might not tell us much of anything. thats what you do with -- like a microsoft flight simulator. where they went, what was there, what wasnt there, whats missing, the pains taken...