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Some path to get this aircraft down to a point where it code is appear. they dont say who they say it doesnt necessarily mean emergency. >> another question. how long can this plane fly at 12,000 feet because we know the last ping picked up by satellite happened what five or six hours later. >> right. right. thats another key factor to hang on to. remember this plane if it was an emergency still flu for a very long time apparently. so mitchell any idea how long they could fly 12,000 with the fue...

Quickly determines he has no choice but to ditch in the pacific. >> my mother mentioned that she didnt hear any yelling or screaming. she did hear a lot of praying in different languages. the mood was very, very serious. >> the pilot radios a nearby coast guard cutter for assistance. and a plan is formed. the stratocruiser will circle above the ship for the rest of the night, lightening its fuel load and waiting for daybreak. >> you want to be as light as you can because with less weight you can...

We cant see right now. all this week, cnns martin savidge has been trying to give us perspective, reporting from inside a 777 flight simulator. he joins us again tonight with flight instructor mitchell casada. i understand this plane can fly 16 to 18 hours on a full tank, but it was heading to beijing and only had about seven hours of fuel. so could it have reached the area where this debris was found? >> reporter: thats the same question had. thats why early today we programmed everything that ...

Casada. i understand this plane can fly 16 to 18 hours on a full tank, but it was heading to beijing and only had about seven hours of fuel. so could it have reached the area where this debris was found? >> reporter: thats the same question had. thats why early today we programmed everything that we knew of flight 370. seven-hour fuel load and we pointed it south. a number of factors we couldnt account for. headwind on the route, what altitude they may have flown at simply not known. running tha...

Like anything to you that could be flight 370? >> i have, jon, and from the angle im looking at it, sometimes it looks like a container, sometime like ulgsd -- you said earlier, it could be a stabilizer on its side. various angles it could look like a piece of aircraft. jon: authorities took a look of this part of the ocean because theyve done a refined analysis, i guess you would say, of the potential track. now they know a bit more about the potential flight track of this plane and based on th...

Where would it go? those are questions that investigators have to deal with. we talk so much about speculation, but in the command post we have reasonable deduction. we use it all the time to take us where we want to go. i would say the reason were on this debris off the australian coast is because of the reasonable deduction made by the ntsb and the navy, and the investigators, because they took the satellite pings, they took the fuel load, the known weather conditions, and they said, hey, we o...

And then we got the ping that said the air kraft was airborne for six hours. now you have to calculate how far will that airplane trafl given its nor mall cruise speed. the f.a.a. and it really was the f.a.a. and boeing who sat down and looked at the aircraft performance based on fuel load and what a cruise performance-type air speed would be and they determined where fuel exhaustion would have taken place. and it happens to be where they put that new search section. greg, appreciate you joining...

The ground on the runway in kuala lumpur and take off in just a moment. fuel will be the real consideration. we believe they were loaded with seven hours of fuel. let me show you something here on the dash board. i can call up the fuel load. its listed here on this tv screen and these are the wing tanks. its got, well, nearly 20,000 kilos of fuel in each wing tank and nearly 30,000 in the center tank. our total fuel is nearly 70,000 kilos. thats not anywhere near as full of fuel as this plane co...

Satellite and radar data and then factored in the weather, jets fuel load and glide time. today australian authorities consistently lowered expectations. the dire weather conditions are a factor, and the images are hopeful but not definitive. >> the objects are relatively instinct on the imagery. i dont profess to be an expert in assessing image ricer but those who are expert indicate theyre credible sightings. >> if the debris is confirmed, because its in interinternational water, the investiga...

Long that no one noticed? >> they are everywhere in the world. its used for training during past wars and all that sort of thing. i used to fly flight instructor out of a little tiny airport near near gainsville, florida called willisston and it was 7500 feet concrete and i think it was 100 -- either 75 or 100 feet wide. can you land a 777 right there. can you land a 777 a lot of places that you cant take off because you burn the fuel down, its light, you can land on a very short runway. you jus...