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Possible to show a simulation of this running out of fuel. because its a simulator, we can immediately get out of fuel like hes done. were out of gas. follow the screens in the center. what are we seeing here mitchell? >> the engines roll back here. theyre failing. youve got the warnings here on the cast. fuel quantity pumps and everything has failed. theres many pages to go through. basically the engines are failing. engine fail left and engine fail right. >> the auto pilot was set at 5,000 fee...

You level off. you apparently have figured out its not that severe and you get it on automatic pilot or you put it on automatic pilot and youre overcome by smoke or lack of oxygen. you pass out, passengers pass out. airplane has plenty of fuel, on a predetermined course and it will now fly for hours until it runs out of fuel. so thats the scenario. we dont know if it really happened that way, but many speculate it could have. >> miles obrian, though, the plane did make several turns. so would th...

Thing, the malaysian government and malaysian airlines have decided they dont want the scrutiny, the public eye, the responsibility anymore. i dont know, and like i said yesterday, we all said yesterday, the families must be absolutely outraged and were seeing it right now. they ought to be ticked off. >> you think the world press is going to leave it alone because the malaysians say its over? >> i think it will take a while for the investigative reporters to try to work to see what they can fin...

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...

Were no other pilots on board by process elimination it comes down the captain and the first officer. >> you were making the point if it goes in this direction, the co-pilots experience on a simulator would have been excellent given how new he was. >> yeah. look, we are now well and truly into deeply unpleasant territory. and, you know, with all due respect to william and "usa today" article is basically judge and jury from the source in malaysia of an unnamed police officer who has basically de...

Analysis on the computer hard drives. some files were deleted. that may have been normal house keeping. they are hoping to learn more about what either one of them may have been planning if anything. did they take out an insurance policy, e-mails, practice flying in a simulator that took them off the end of the world. they are looking for anything and everything. at this point they have nothing. nothing to suggest that there is anything in the background that would lead them to fly the plane to ...

Obvious what happened. >> yeah, we dont have anything clear cut here. i like the guys in the simulator to try one idea. lets assume the left engine is the first engine to be started generally. lets assume the left engine flamed out first. if you guys could put it -- and lets go with the 12,000 foot altitude, which weve been talking about. i dont believe a lot of these altitude numbers weve been hearing about it. so put it on autopilot with asymmetrical thrust with the left engine off. if one eng...

>> the vessel has lost 105,000 barrels of oil so far. >> its coming up so fast, its shooting five feet above the surface. >> so did you ever worry about shallow water? >> not in alaska. should be turning. >> we asked captain hazelwood to walk us through the events of 25 years ago. in a simulator at his alma mater, the state university of new york maritime college. take me back to that moment. back to a chain of events after the exxon valdez left port with hazelwoods decision to change course. ha...

Should be turning. >> we asked captain hazelhood to walk us through the events of 25 years ago. in a simulator at his alma mater, the state university of new york maritime college. take me back to that moment. back to a chain of events after the exxon valdez left port with hazelwoods decision to change course. hazelwood was worried about ice from the columbia glacier. large chunks had broken off and floated into the shipping lanes. where would it have been on the radar? >> it would have been com...

Makes electricity by the wind, so the aircraft descending without power would generate electricity. everything turns out again. so it is theorized maybe the plane ran out of fuel, eight minutes later, it is generating electricity again, and this acar system sends one last ping before the plane presumably hits the water. thats the theory, brooke. were still working on trying to test it in the simulator. >> martin savidge, thank you very much. from the partial ping to the families, we cant begin t...