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Instructor mitchell casada. aviation analyst miles obrien and richard quest. martin, the map that the australians released last night says that the plane would have been traveling 400 knot as hour to get to the new search area. what does that tell us if anything about the altitude the plane was flying? >> reporter: well, were still not clear on that particular one. for instance, 400 knots sounds like a lot of speed. but its actually not as fast as what this aircraft would typically fly when it w...

Ive looked at it for that night. basically it was an east to west cross wind. it would have blown the plane a little bit to the west but would have no appreciable difference on the range. so basically 400 knots is as fast as the aerodynamic frame is designed to go at 12,000 feet. why they are just now realizing this, we talked about this a week ago. im a little mystified. they have the radar data now. theyve gotten their act together. theyre sharing this information. a lot of this is sensitive s...

The next step would be to get it on the ground. you want to stabilize it, see where things are. but very quickly you with like to get to an airport. >> martin savidge, mitchell casada, thank you. no trace of flight 370. more than two weeks after it vanished. and families are running out of patience. well see how theyre coping just ahead in a live report from beijing. so our business can be on at&ts network for $175 a month? yup. all 5 of you for $175. our clients need a lot of attention. there...

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 ...

I hadnt thought about the fact that maybe one pilot knew and the other didnt. if the screens have the same information and you see it change course, our thanks to martin savidge and mitchell casada. were the pilots looking to land because there was an emergency on board? this is a very popular theory. thats been burning up the internet. it is on the internet. could it be true? well tell you what the evidence really shows right after this. was getting him to wellness. w, without angies list, i ...

That does take a lot of capacity. >> you have to delete and add more. i dont see any real significance for the deleting of files. >> or if you thought in some way you are hiding it? >> there is that possibility but it is so normal. it is just almost like -- >> i think really what we are saying is that the computer forensic experts are going to have to figure that one out. >> they are looking at that and trying to retrieve the lost data. im sure they are also looking at lower data that wasnt lost...

So we saw martin savidge at the top of the broadcast. we asked him to do something. at this moment, hes in a 777 flight simulator along with flight instructor mitchell casada and hes answering a question from marcus. marcus says, the himalayas are vast. is it possible the plane could have crashed there where radar coverage may be spotty? martin, what have you got for us? >> well, essentially heres the scenario we set up. here are the him ma lay yeah mountains. we tried to simulate flying through...

Could you alter the course once you are in the air? yeah, it can and, in fact, pilot mitchell casada can show us how easily that is done. >> this is our flight path. i have the flight plan in here, all the legs. there is our airplane. it is a matter of typing in where you want to go. the waypoint or the radio navigation aid. we punch it into the computer. we verify thats what we want. now, we have a different route to go. the airplane will follow that route. it is a very simple key stroke. >> th...

Why was the transponder, that transmits vital information to the ground turned off? >> our martin savidge is in a flight simulator thats in mississauga. >> just outside of toronto. >> you have it set up for about a minute before its last known point of contact. >> a little less than that. hello, john and micayla. let me show you where we are exactly b-today, the triangle here is us, the airplane. b-todd, is a reference point in the sky. it was the last known location in which there was an offici...

Towards. we have no reports of injuries or tsunami warnings, thats important, because ships are going to be in that area. it just adds to the whole weirdness, the sadness around this missing plane. lets return to our discussion of the last-known moments inside the cockpit of malaysian airlines flight 370. martin and mitchell casada are inside a boeing 777. this is about the time when the data reporting systems are said to have shut down. >> right, carol. let me tell you where we are. we are at 3...