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News expert. greg thanks for taking time this morning. >> good morning, steve. >> i know we had you on yesterday. you tended to agree with the assessment that this plane had been intentionally diverted from its route by someone who knew what they were doing. we now have the malaysian authorities saying they have looking, visiting the homes of the pilots, they took a flight simulator i think from the pilots home. i wonder from an investigative standpoint, theres all sorts of possibilities here we...

Searching the flight simulate their the captain of the plane had in his home? >> well, pretty much as for this entire investigation so far, facts are few and far between on the ground here. we dont know officially what was on that simulator. it was taken in by police from the pilots home yesterday. so they have had it for a good 24 hours. theres a story being quoted on reuters saying that there is a -- a program which tells you how to fly through different type of weather conditions. but should ...

Things. this is clearly a simultaneous criminal and civil investigation. i think were seeing an improvement in the level of cooperation im getting, the best information before the best experts. theyre doing things like looking at that pilot depicting where it was used or -- >> which by the way nothing weird for a pilot. they tend to be fanatics. youre a pilot. right? they love flying so that he would build himself a simulator is not necessarily -- >> absolutely right. he was very open about it. ...

And co-pilot. they have found a flight simulator inside the home of the co-pilot as well as a history of him allowing people to go into the cockpit. pictures they found in his home, were learn iing now tontd out malaysia monitored here, so hearing what the police are saying now is who ever took the plane did not know that the aircraft can give a ping every 30 minutes the aircraft is in the air. >> mike, let me ask you this. what significance do the malaysian authorities give to the fact that one...

Simulator it was at his home. it did seem to be something that you could sort of -- that he constructed himself, sort of home-made flight simulator. what investigators will be looking at is basically what we is doing with this flight simulator? was there any path similar to the one we now know the plane actually took? these are the kinds of details that theyll be looking for but we dont have any indication yet of what they found. all that we know is that theyve taken that simulator out an they a...

Simulator. the police also visited the home of the co-pilot. according to malaysian airlines the pilot and co-pilot did not ask to fly together on 370. >> you heard there the police removed a home made flight simulator from zaharie ahmad shah. this is an experienced pilot, known as an aviation junky, created his own flight simulator. not that unusual he would have it but police are looking at it as a precaution to see if there are any clues as to why or how the plane might have taken this wrong ...

Days ago, triggering the aviation mystery thats baffled the world. here are the new developments as we know them today. pakistan says no trace of the missing plane ever showed up on its radar systems. and pakistan says the plane would have been treated as a threat if it did show up. right now police are examining a flight simulator taken from the pilots home and new scrutiny is baring down on both the pilot and copie lot. plus, the search for the missing airliner is switching gears. why it may h...

There was not more fuel added to the plane, even though they have taken the simulator from the pilots home, i understand its not unusual for a pilot to have that. does all the information help substantiate the view that the pilot should be examined further or does it rule them out in your sue? view? >> in my view it is those pilots or others that are enforcing their will on the pilots and making sure they do what they are told to do. i have to tell you, fredericka, this whole thing has been very...

Simulate tore which you can see another screen. who used that is one of the questions that needs to be asked. authorities reassembled it and of course they will be dusting it for fingerprints to see if anybody else used that simulator and if they have links to anybody else who was on board there. this might be a crucial piece of evidence. take a listen. >> we have dismantleded it from the room and assembled it at our base and we are getting sxermts to look at it now. >> a couple laptops were als...

Human element if you like, and obviously at this stage, they are focusing very much on the pilot, and the co-pilot and the police are searching the homes of both of to pilots in the last few hours, and taking away plastic bags of evidence, of documents and we dont know what is in the documents in relation, because the police have been quiet about what they are look g f looking for and what i can say and what we do know is that the pilot, the 53-year-old pilot did have a simulator in his home. he...