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Flight 68 is exact overlay on the inmar sat put out. and so that could have happened. now, could a 777 pilot fly at 200 feet behind in formation? thats why im interested what the simulator data that was erased, what the fbi labs at quantico turns out to see. i talked to a 777 pilot just before i came on here. a chap who i have known a long time, a 777 pilot, as well as 787 instructor pilot. he indicated that he probably could, if he had practiced some in the simulator, and was on auto pilot. so ...

Two-minute turn would feel like, and this is it, right? were doing it now. its barely perceivable. its slight, but if you were a passenger, you would not sit here and say boy, this is like something really wrong. this is a very subtle, slow turn. its sharp in that it will deviate you from the source to beijing eventually, but the perception that youre banking like in a fighter craft, thats not what the simulator reflects on that. remember, the plane was at 35,000 feet. we say it drops to 12,000 ...

Two-minute turn would feel like. and this is it, right? were doing it now. its barely perceptible. its slight, youll get it, but if youre a passenger, once we straighten up, you would not sit here and say, boy, like, this is something very, very wrong. this is a subtle, slow turn. its sharp in that it will deviate you from the course to beijing eventually, but the perception that youre like banking, thats not what the simulator reflects on that. all right, so, lets go into the altitude issue. re...

E-mails of the two pilots. >> they are going to scrub all of the e-mails and hard drive and simulator at quantityco under review. even though you may delete a file they can be retrieved later and i know the fbi is working to do that. we all delete files. but the question is what was deleted and could that be evidence of a route that was taken in this case. so, i think thats all under review. let me just say there are many theories floating around out there. none in my opinion connect all of the ...

But the perception that youre, like, banking like in a fighter craft, thats not what the simulator reflects on that. lets go into the altitude. the plane was at 35,000 feet. we say that it drops to 12,000 feet, but that reading on radar was over an hour and 40 minutes. so here is a precipitous drop. lets do a real -- if you threw this over the top and set us down kind of a dive. nose down, again, all the alarms youre getting and bells and whistles warning you youre going way too fast, you are go...

>> and we now know some of the files were deleted? >> and thats a concern. if the captain was using the simulator to do dry runs to plot for whatever reason hes going to do something, he wants to practice it to make sure he can pull it off. thats where the calculated part comes in. the question is what were those files? and when were they deleted. >> this electronic data is going to be, in my opinion, very important. every major case that ive been involved in in recent history, some key koent ha...

They are trying to figure out what might have been deleted and if the pilot practicing a route similar to this case. michael mccall says the hope is it will help the investigation. >> theyre going to scrub all their e-mails. i know the hard drives and the simulator of quantico under review. having worked with the fbi as a federal prosecutor. even though you may have deleted a file, they can be retrieved later and the fbi is working to-do that. >> mccall says it is hopeful now that satellite imag...

This is breaking news into cnn. coming from a source close to the investigation that says military radar that tracked that missing flight 370 between 1:19 and 2:40, it showed the aircraft did change altitude after making a sharp turn over the south china sea as it headed toward the strait of malacca. as low as 12,000 feet. which is leading our 777 pilot here to believe that there was possibly a catastrophic event inside the cockpit. les abend joins us. steve wallace is an investigate going to jo...

Modification to the flight plan was made. >> two minutes after the last voice transmission, the planes transponder fails or is shut off. the aircraft then flies on its new course, but erratically up and down. >> they flipped that off. and then they altered altitude. they went high, then they went low. one aspect of the intense forensic investigation was whether there was premeditated. the captain had practiced maneuvers on his home simulator and deleted the files. >> the pilot deleted the files ...

Modification to the flight plan was made. >> two minutes after the last voice transmission, the planes transponder fails or is shut off. the aircraft then flies on its new course, but erratically up and down. >> they flipped that off. and then they altered altitude. they went high, then they went low. one aspect of the intense forensic investigation was whether there was premeditated. the captain had practiced maneuvers on his home simulator and deleted the files. >> the pilot deleted the files ...