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Joins us. what do you make of this, the turn and rapidly going to a lower altitude, 12,000 feet? >> i think it points very clearly to some kind of a very large, catastrophic mechanical event on the plane or possibly an explosion. that depleted the cabin of the pressurization. the standard operating procedure for a depressurization is a turn and a drop in altitude. and i think the drop in the altitude had to do with getting oxygen. and certainly not to avoiding radar. youre still visible on radar...

Control of pilot on the yoke but turning the heading in which case the computer would still be flying the plane, autopilot under control and hit those way opponents we talked about perfectly. could you show us how that would work? >> go ahead, tell us. >> the autopilot is controlled through this panel. we call this the remote control panel. all it is, the number you see here is heading. degree magnetic this is compass, cartesian points, north, east, south, west. all you have to do is turn the no...

Information from the latest information we have gotten here from sources who are close to the investigation about this military radar, saying that the plane dropped to an altitude of 12,000 feet. so if there is, indeed, something catastrophic that happened onboard, im trying to figure out who, indeed, would be in control of the airplane and whether or not this airplane would end up over -- why it would end up over the indian ocean where were looking or would it be in the strait of malaka. do you...

We believe the turn could have been made. another way that this could have happened would be through the automatic pilot. you wouldnt have to touch it here. >> very simple. there is a heading select here. we choose the heading that we are on. and all we have to do is choose the heading that we want. >> you can feel the aircraft as it makes its turn. the fact that it wasnt programmed is very interesting but it doesnt rule in or rule out somebody taking control of the aircraft or pushing it up for...

Plane. but this one by a 20-year-old pilot. he says the loss of transponders and communication makes perfect sense in a fire. and there was most likely an electrical fire. it was probably a serious event and the flight crew was occupied with controlling the plane and trying to fight the fire. what i think happened is the flight crew was overcome by smoke and the plane continues on the heading probably on autopilot until it ran out of fuel or the fire destroyed the control surfaces and it crashed...

Flight simulator story. kyung, early morning hours there in australia, 8:00 a.m. in perth. are search teams gearing up right now for know full day at sea? what kind of resources are we looking at? >> i think im actually hearing it right now. im about 500 yards, im told, from where these planes are actually taking off. we could hear some turbo props starting up. these are the p 3 orions. one is scheduled to take off right now. they will be leaving from this air base and heading four hours away to...

>> reporter: i think im hearing it right now. im about 500 yards im told from where these planes are taking off. we can hear some turboprops starting up. these are the p-3 orions. one is scheduled to take off right now. they will be leaving from this air base and heading four hours away to that remote area. at daybreak, there was one that took off and then those two civilian long-range planes. there will be more today, a total of six planes in all heading to that remote area four hours away. >> ...

Early morning hours there in australia. 8:00 a.m. in perth. are search teams gearing up for another full day at sea? what kind of resources are we looking at? >> reporter: i think im hearing it right now. im about 500 yards im told from where these planes are taking off. we can hear some turboprops starting up. these are the p-3 orions. one is scheduled to take off right now. they will be leaving from this air base and heading four hours away to that remote area. at daybreak, there was one that ...

>> from the very beginning theres been questions whether we were getting all the information, whether all the information was coming together to a central location, and its my understanding you still have question about that. >> i do have questions because its not definitive. it was convenient with the debris field was if the aircraft did go in that heading. also convenient that thats approximately the area that the aircraft would have run out of fuel because it was about the same distance as it...

A crew did exactly what their books told them to do, by descending and getting off the airway and that kind of coincides with that westerly heading that would have taken them to the indian ocean. now, if they were succumbed by smoke and fire, the airplane perhaps flew by itself for a while. so either exhausted its fuel supply, or crashed because the controls were perhaps melting. >> sure. now, it would make no sense to anybody like me, who doesnt have experience with this sort of thing, that the...