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We are now in a simulator. its a struggle to get the plane there. it was never meant to fly this high. and even though we have a real good pilot, tell us what its like to keep the aircraft here. >> its very difficult to control. part of the problem you have is this plane is on the brink of stalling, going too slow, but at the same time almost at the brink of going too fast. a raiser edge of balance. lets talk about that sudden decent thats been described. a plane descending pushes over the top. ...

Did for us was to give us those two arcs to work with which does narrow the search area down. >> jim, we know that the prime minister also said theyre refocusing their energies on looking at the passengers, the pilots, the crew that was onboard. one of the things that people have had questions about is the fact that the captain, zaharie, had built a simulator in his home. is that common? >> well, look, i know lots of pilots that have simulators in their homes. i certainly wouldnt waunt to specul...

Simulator, it really cant be done. >> the actual numbers of 45,000 and 23,000, martin, may be slightly off. they sort of admit that the radar capability of the malaysians might not have been as strong. but the fundamental point of going up and coming down, do the two of you believe that would have been possible in these circumstances albeit not to the extremes? >> mitchell? im going to put it to you. >> that is definitely in the realm of the extreme. going up and down like that, i mean, flying a...

That could be the most crucial part of this story. martin savidge is live in a 777 simulator right now. this is becoming the center of this entire story. i guess could you talk about first what it would be like to fly at 45,000 feet above the 43,100 foot approved level of this 777 plane? >> reporter: yeah, the real problem were having here, because weve been trying to emulate in the simulator here whats been reported, its almost beyond the laws of physics and the physical ability of an aircraft ...

On the missing plane to the. this time on what could be the two most important people in this mystery. the pilot and co-pilot now a major focus for investigators. trace gallagher has more in the west coast news room, trace? >> and megyn, the more we learn about the flight path and variations in altitude and shutdown of communications the more investigators are focusing on the possibility that a trained pilot may very well have still been in control of this aircraft. so lets begin with the captai...

Going to be a political effort as well now for the malaysian government. they have to get the governments, all these countries on board. they have to share data. they have to look at the passengers as well. here in malaysia, i can tell you that soon after the announcement from the prime minister that it looks like there was a very, very strong body of evidence to suggest that the plane was deliberately turned away from its flight path by someone on board. the two pilots here, both of the homes o...

Had an extremely senior captain in the left-hand seat, and here again, you have a very senior captain, and 18,000 hours. that is way up there in terms of the number of hours. what we can deduce is with the family details and cases before where the pilots have gone awry and almost perfect family backgrounds with children, and so we cant sort of necessarily import too much from that. >> and the fact that he had a sim simulator in the house is out of the ordinary this is. >>le with, the size of the...

Approaching 700 miles an hour. i mean, this is -- the plane would be breaking apart at this point. >> this is where stuff is falling off the aircraft at this point, i mean, major stuff. there could be structural damage that would make it almost impossible to fly, which then that brings us to the next thing, trying to level off. to think that this airplane reported leveled off at around 23,000 feet? its hard to believe it was still structurally intact to do that. and the g forces alone on the imp...

Plane, how easy would it be to land a plane like that, given the wide area it could have landed, without any radar detection? >> well, i think if you get low enough you dont worry about radar. you can fly this thing on what we call map of the earth where youre right down on the deck. could this cap have done that? i dont know. but i would love to see the authorities get into his home and download whatever is left on his simulator. because thats a very sophisticated simulator. and he may have don...

You? >> yes, it absolutely does, reverend al. and i think it also raised them with jim tilmon the other day. look, they should be into the computer at the pilots flight simulator examining everything he did on that simulator. i mean, was he practicing turning off equipment and making a hard turn. was he practicing this route that is a flight route that maneuvers itself through the islands towards india? i mean, he might have been practicing that route on the simulator. i mean, that would be a bi...