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I would hope that they would err on the side of getting that information out there. but we too have to protect our capabilities. >> mary, you raise an interesting point. that even if they cant find what the information thats been overwritten, the mere fact that information was intentionally overwritten can be meaningful. >> it depends what the erasure is. i guess i have to confess this. all of us who have flight simulators, you want to land, try to see if you can land. most of us dont do it succ...

Retrieving deleted computer data from the captains home flight simulator that was fairly expensive relatively and an elaborate setup in his home with three monitors and some flight simulators have less. files were erased on the simulator on february 3rd. the first time american assistance has been requested to help solve the flights disappearance. president obama spoke about the search calling it a top priority for the united states and saying the government has made every resource available to ...

Personal computers, so, you have to periodically delete files. i dont see that as sinister in any way, however, they need to be investigated those files need to be recovered. >> of course. are flight simulators at home common, uncommon? >> theyre pretty common. you know, pilots are in the business of aviation because they love aviation. its much more than a job. its a tremendous passion that extended well beyond their flying for whatever agency or corporate outfit theyre flying. >> and steve, wh...

Regular route flight that trip would be saved in the flight management computer as a code and then they fly that trip every time they fly that flight. >> mm-hmm. and same reckoning of this? because im trying to give every benefit of the doubt to the pilots that we can until the facts dictate otherwise. this does line up like a bad fact. this isnt routinely and not ne people? >> i dont see any reason they would do that unless they had -- perhaps a specific reason, they had to have an alternate, t...

Automated message. by that time the plane went west. this all happening without word from the co pilot. when he spoke 12 minutes later at 1:19 a.m., he said all right, good night. >> kelly has been following the latist for us. >> a spoiks man says he had a clear intent of doing something bad in this plane. adding to his skrefrn gative recoveries from the flight simulators. it shows half a dozen remote landing slips. he waited ten-days before reporting it. there is published reports of people liv...

To retrieve it. the company that made the sim later is actually based in alexandra, virginia, right outside washington, d.c. and brian todd is here. you actually went out to the company and just got back here to the studio. what did you see out there, what did they tell you? >> they didnt tell us anything. they didnt want to speak to us. we were told the head of the company was not available, wolf. an update to what you just said. we have been told by law enforcement officials that u.s. law enfo...

The deleted file was overwritten or nuke and the fact that malaysian authorities say it was delete old february 3rd a specific date and recoverable data on the hard drive, a promising sign that investigators will be able to pull all or at least part of the information from that hard drive, but erin, what is found from the hard drive could end up being an insignificant detail. we just simply dont know. >> all right, pamela, thank you very much. obviously crucial at this point, because we just don...

Point in time? just as you were saying. >> an interesting point. by the way if it is true these five airports near the indian ocean were programmed, obviously, could be reasons not nefarious that would have happened. if it did happen arent question would be when was that deleted? because was that in the -- before february 3rd or after? aft, the guy wasnt trying to cover it up because it was sitting there, along with diego garcia, we know was also on that flight simulator. >> i think it is also i...

Not significant. a lot of pilots have flight simulators in their home. i have one in my home, probably not as elaborate as is. we that to practice and be good what we do. however when we talk about files being deleted, depends what is on the files. most of them can be recovered from fbi sources. so if we can recover those files, find out if they were locations, obviously that gives us someplace to look. bill: can one person do all of this or do you need help? >> you know, could one person do it?...

Or did one of the pilots have an agenda? well, the background of the pilots doesnt suggest they had an agenda. so we are left with the question -- the pilots or passengers? >> let me go back one step further to the pilot. we have this information about the deleted files off the flight simulator. is there anything in and of itself us is patient bus that? >> no, not at all. i have a flight simulator myself. i delete files all the time. essentially some of the flight simulators are just pcs with en...