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Example what would have happened. >> martin savidge, if a plane runs out of fuel as is believed happened here, how does a plane this size enter the water? are there different scenarios? is it a glide down? one engine loses power before the next? >> reporter: right. these are things weve been trying to simulate. put it into like neutral if you will and well sort of show you. we cant shut the engines off. the simulator doesnt allow that. it would do all sorts of computer problems. but we have trie...

Im really fascinated, and we talked about it at the top of the program, this partial attempt at a hand shake. lets zero in a little bit more what could have possibly caused that. do you believe the idea that perhaps as the plane went into the water, it might have caused a surge that would have attempted this partial hand shake, anything to that? >> surge is a wide term, but when i think of a surge, youre talking about an electrical supply difference, which in my mind wouldnt have caused that but...

They watched the engines flame out on both sides and watched it go into the mountainside. that was on autopilot that. is an example of what would have happened. >> martin savidge, if a plane runs out of fuel, as is believed happened here, how does a plane this size enter the water? are there different scenarios? is it a glide down? >> reporter: these are things weve been trying to simulate. put it into neutral, if you will, and well show you. we cant shut the engines off, the simulator doesnt al...

>> all right. well, lets begin with the fact you would have been flying about 45 minutes, were talking about the malaysian airline 370, about the time they begin to see some electronics being shut down. the acars system you mentioned. this is a communication system between the airplane and the ground, it can work in a number of ways. lets bring up the text so i can show you here this is what the screen looks like. would allow the pilot to send a text message, but at the same time, the airplane i...