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Area of the world and we dont know yet. day ten. coming up, they brought up the issue of cell phones. could the cell phone records have been helpful? also when we talk about the cockpit here, what was the pilot doing with a simulator in his own home? what kind of information can be learned from that? also in another part of the world, who controls crimea. president barack obama making an unexpected statement today announcing stiff punishments against russia. will vladimir putin retaliate? a baiu...

Had this home built flight simulator in his home. does this make you less likely to think it was a hijacking or the pilot or not? >> well, again, from the very beginning i thought it was a hostile take over of the airplane. it was a hostile takeover of the aircraft. the fact that the pilot had the flight simulator in his own home, it is important to go back and take a look and see if you can recover some of the data to see if input programst about where you might want to land or how it would eff...

With the latest. >> reporter: thank you, sant ra, the investigation was formally declared a criminal case. and the head of the homeland security committee said computer hard drive and the pilots flight simulator was recovered. they now high as 46,000 and dropped. a seasoned investigator said the computers and simulator may show fdz of pre-meditation. >> if there was a practice in the simulation it would give them confidence. i look for practicing in low altitudes among the mountains and out of t...

I think one of the major developments that we may pursue is the flight simulator of the pilot. everybody should be focusing on that pilot and that flight simulator. but one must ask the question, did anybody else have access to that simulator to learn how to fly the 777, and if so, did that pilot provide that training. >> and what would -- if it were a terrorist act and the plane simply disappeared for it to be a credible terrorist act, wouldnt it have had to land someplace or that that plane co...

The 1999 egyptian suicide flight by the pilot as well as what we may see here, which is all fingers are pointing right now to looking at the pilot having a simulator in his house, there are a number of indicators that would suggest that whoever did this knew how to disable the transponders and did it precisely at the moment of handle auch between air traffic control -- >> people might not have noticed right away. >> correct. youre touching on -- no matter how much we reinforce the cockpit door, ...

Pilots. in fact, they have removed the simulator from the pilots home. now they are trying to find out if the pilot was doing a rehearsal flight plan or if theres a real investigation into flying into different kind of elements and what would this all mean. back with us, the cnn aviation analyst mary schiavo and john mcgau, and tom fuentes. before the break, john mcgaw, there are three things kind of missing thus far, especially to help ease the grieving loved ones. you say there needs to be gri...

Data, and we need something sufficient. a missing airplane, isnt that enough? >> yeah, thats more than enough. i dont know what to blame that on. i dont know if its a cultural thing or what it is. but it doesnt make any kind of sense to wait this long to find out whats in that house, because there may be some very important clues there on that flight simulator. >> lets talk about some of the reports that have been out there. we told you about an abc news report that says it appears it was prepro...

Flight simulator taken from the home of the pilot. our andrew stevens is joining us now live from kuala lumpur, andrew, who are officials saying about the importance of this flight simulator? >> reporter: well, at the moment, its key to this investigation because this very clearly has been put forth that the pilots are an integral part of this until ruled otherwise. we know there was deliberate action take up in the cockpit. we know it was deliberately disrupting the flight and that the communic...

Ocean. >> that is known -- no one has ever raised that. is there any indication from anyone that they asked for extra fuel? >> no. i dont know. but i think weve heard about it because obviously there would be a question why they would be asking for such a seriously large amount of fuel. >> very good point. jim, nbc news reporting the simulator was taken from the house during the search. you heard richard and i talk about it here. does that raise any sort of red flags to you? because apparently h...

Search for the missing plane. >> search of the pilots homes. we will tell you what they are doing with that system that was about that the captains home. we will be right back. simulator. i quit smoking.