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Area. instead investigators are focused on this large area over a whole lot of land and water. an area stretching above and below the equator. areas the plane might have crossed while making its last satellite transmission. we do know investigators believe the disappearance was a deliberate act. that means it wouldnt be an accident. but there is still far more theory than fact in this ongoing mystery. today officials indicated theyre investigating whether whoever was piloting the jetliner after ...

Information might be in there. on a long shot chance, was this diversion from the normal flight track prerehearsed. the police are taking this to a new level of investigation above standard accident investigations. theyre looking for a criminal act. typically aircraft accident investigators, were more focused on what happened. so theres a parallel investigation going on here. >> so, john, then a flight simulator, it will have a certain memory much like a cell phone? people will look at a cell ph...

And try to get the black boxesl skpair you have to find the wreckage area based on where you find sporadic wreckage. >> there has been much made of the communications systems that would have been working on the plane. the system which pings off satellites and a transponder which would have worked off ground radar. it appears they were disabled. is that something only done manually or if you had a catastrophic event like fire, explosion or other complication could those things have served to disa...

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Looking for deleted files. really, why would you have a simulator in plain sight in your home? it may turn out to be deliberate but i dont think so. i think you have to look at the simplest explanation, an aviation accident analysis. that is typically looking at a malfunction in the plane. there is a way to generate that kind of sequential failure mode of the transponder. there are antennas where you could have a fire that originated and started knocking out these systems sequentially while the ...

Of that simulator. bill: very good look at some videos online now. martha, this where we think we are now. five days ago this was the search area, south china sea, gulf of thailand, andaman sea. remember the two search areas about five days ago? roughly 35,000 square miles and look where we are now on this monday morning? just advance it one time for me, if you can, thank you. 2500 square miles, okay? thats the fuel capacity that was on board this 777, suggesting that if you were to consider all...

>> reporter: an expansive area, but still off australia our sources say this is the most likely place flight 70 is. david kerley, abc news, washington. in malaysia the investigation into the backgrounds of the pilot and co-pilot is intensifying. authorities are focusing on the home of the 53-year-old pilot, concentrating on a flight similarity he built himself. one source called him a tech geek who would let his friends try out that simulator if they wanted to see what it was like to experienc...

Authorities are turning over those tapes? the simulator to american investigators for that type of thorough investigation. because a lot of people believe the malaysian government is trying to cover up the truth here. >> well, i think that the u.s. is as happy as they have been with the investigation right now. it has taken almost two weeks. but after some prodding from the aviation investigators on the ground, and yesterday from secretary hagel who asked for more transparency, the u.s. is now i...

Instead investigators are focused on this large area over a whole lot of land and water. an area stretching above and below the equator. areas the plane might have crossed while making its last satellite transmission. we do know investigators believe the disappearance was a deliberate act. that means it wouldnt be an accident. but there is still far more theory than fact in this ongoing mystery. today officials indicated theyre investigating whether whoever was piloting the jetliner after it wen...

Afternoon. what can you tell us about what that investigator was saying? >> chuck hagel had this to say when he was asked if the results of the u.s. investigation ruled out terrorism. >> on the terrorism question, i dont think at this point, we can rule anything in or out. >> sources close to the investigation tell us the deleted files on captain shahs simulator, which have been analyzed for the past week at the fbis quantico laboratory, may be revealing. malaysian authorities did not search his...