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That the malaysian 370 was at. we are beginning to take off. we are heading down the runway. everything you see mitchell doing is everything that the pilot and co-pilot would have been doing. im in the co-pilot seat. it is designed to mirror exactly the course. mitchell was just putting in all the coordinates that we will follow. we have followed their course. we will go with their altitude and move at the planes speed. all of this to design and give you the feel of what they were going through....

Minutes to an hour ago and following the highway in the sky. were on this pink line right here you can see on the navigation system. the reason were not touching the controls is just like 370, were on automatic pilot. were currently up at an altitude of 35,000 feet. so everything that we know about the plane at the time it disappeared, we are sort of re-creating and reliving here. lets talk about some vital equipment. a lot has been said about the transponder. where is it here? it is actually lo...

All right. were going to go back to martin savidge and pilot mitchell in a flight simulator and now flying beyond the point, right, martin, of where they lost track of that malaysia airliner. >> right. weve gone now probably about, oh, just, the area where roughly this aircraft was last known to report. so, we went around that. we can come back it it, again, if we want. its a simulator, you can do whatever you want, but the point is we designed this whole experiment here, if you will, to emulate...

Approaching 1,000. here is our speed. the goal is to eventually get to 35,000 feet. thats the last known altitude we knew and very shortly, here, mitchell is going to put us into autopilot, because the plane was flying at auto-pilot when it was last referenced. this was everything as it was happening a it was happening that night as we knew it. lets point out something pretty important here. the transponder. it was apparently for some reason off. why did it go off? here it is, this little device...

Asking why the transponders off, why we put that code in. theyre going to think it is a hijacking. >> we should point out, carol, allegedly, that has not happened. we have not had any reports that that emergency code was used. one last thing were on auto pilot. if i want today change course, as it suggested the plane did. if i did this, thats the alarm that tells me, the autopilot has been disengaged. i can turn it off and put us back on course. so, in other words, you can cant take this plane o...

There is no account that signal was ever sent. >> at 1:07 on saturday, the data reporting system was shut down and 14 minutes later, that trance ponder was turned off. tell us about the data responding system. >> there are a lot of things on this airplane that are sending out data. that can be a little broad in that term. sometimes it has been confusing. we are not sure what it is. mitchell, explain, what are the various things transmitting out information. >> you have acar to send short but vic...

Radar screen this transponder were flight 370 and at this altitude. can you turn it off? >> yes, you can. heres how you do it. just three clicks to the left and its off. but you would never do that, mitchell. >> we would never do that. never in flight. >> it would be like driving the wrong way down a highway and thats how a no go this sort of maneuver is, but it can be turned off. let me show you something else this transponder can do. put it back in the normal position. if i was hijacked, a way...

Communication, what does that tell you about what might have been happening in the sky, mitchell? >> if a plane is flying, if it was off course and it was flying for four hours after last contact, someones flying that airplane. someone turned it off. of course, someone was flying that airplane. if it was the pilots, if the pilots were flying when they were supposed to be, they would have been communicating with air traffic control. theres weather, volcanoes erupt and we have to go around it, but...

Traffic, so air traffic controllers no longer need to know where you are and they dont need any of your information, youre just going to clutter up their screen. you turn them off to declutter their screens and no longer a factor. >> on the ground you dont need it, you switch it off. thats the reason it exists. you also mentioned the shut down of some of the communication equipment. the radios, mitchell, a number of radios, not just one. theyre located right here. >> here and we have radios with...

You dont have to delete all the radio signals and radio stations. >> what we are saying is that if those systems were shout shut down as has been reported, it means the pilot or co-pilot was intentionally doing it or somebody that knew their way around a 777, 200 flight deck. >> how far into the flight are you now? >> well, we have just taken off. so, mitchell, where are we? >> were passing 18,000 feet. so this is the point where we would transition to what we call high-level air space. it is ju...