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Turn took two minutes to complete. that is a very long time to make a 90 or even 180 degree turn. an extraordinary amount of time for this aircraft. in fact, well try to give you a sense of what that kind of a 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 you were a passenger, once we straighten off, you would not sit here and say, boy, this is like, something really, really wrong. this is a very subtle, slow t...

Us down, kind of a dive. nose down. again, all the alarms that youre getting. bells and whistles warning you youre going way too fast. youre going to overspeed. doubtful they did anything like this. theres the ocean straight ahead. so pull it back. remember, if it really was over an hour and 40 minutes, that deced descent could have been very, very gradual. so what were saying here is those actions do not indicate emergency. its not a sharp turn to go to some emergency landing. and its not neces...

>> yeah. >> uncomfortable. >> its uncomfortable us even here watching it. steve wallace, as an accident investigator, you know, were going through these particular scenarios. and i think that mark weiss brings up a very good point. if you have an oxygen mask on and youre trying to communicate and all these things, you know, what does all that mean? go ahead, steve wallace. >> well, im surprised they dont have them in the simulator because they train to do that. ive flown smaller pressurized airp...

The pilots and what are they finding? >> in particular the one blo belonging to the captain, we have learned that there were deletions. this contained the flight sim y simulator that they have looked at. some were done after authorities began exsal am inning this. or some didnt enter the home. it is hard to explain this and i think the fbi is trying to figure that out now randy. a lot of concern that there is only two weeks left for the

It approached vietnamese air space and then dropping down rapidly to 12,000 feet. cnns martin savidge has been standing by for us throughout this coverage in a boeing 777 simulator. martin savidge, what are you working for us, going to give us on the other side of the break? >> don, just as you pointed out, what were doing is taking those numbers youve got, the altitude and the sharp turn. were plugging them into the system here. and well see if it really plays out. if it really works in the air...

>> is it possible what dr. diehl suggests? >> possible to turn that nob to the left. i cant imagine a pilot doing that, though, to be honest with you. >> even in a smoke-filled cockpit, even in a moment of -- >> even under those circumstances, i cant imagine a guy doing that. i think too he would probably communicate and that had not happened either. so i dont think so. >> all right, craig has been in a simulator for 777 cockpit. lets go now to craigs report. >> one of the aspects of the disappe...

Slippery, and weve never done it before. and hes got to stop. >> oh my goodness. >> theres the reverse thrusters. weve got it on full max auto braking. and see, you did not embarrass yourself on national tv. hes managed to do it with room to spare. you know, this is a simulator, of course. you can only take it so far. the real thing you would have a lot of other things bearing on you. not to mention emotions. but at least it shows that in our particular case, it could have been done on a 4,000-f...

Where that turn began just to see what, if anything, fell off the airplane for one thing. but if it is, in fact, true that those inmarsat pings are correct and it flew on, its a really good point that at 10,000 feet, the fuel burn is entirely different. and the range is much less. and so it may be the entirely wrong place that theyre searching. >> interesting because earlier i said i would love to see martin savidge put this information into the flight simulator and see how that scenario would p...

>> is it possible what dr. diehl suggests? >> possible to turn that nob to the left. i cant imagine a pilot doing that, though, to be honest with you. >> even in a smoke-filled cockpit, even in a moment of -- >> even under those circumstances, i cant imagine a guy doing that. i think too he would probably communicate and that had not happened either. so i dont think so. >> all right, craig has been in a simulator for 777 cockpit. lets go now to craigs report. >> one of the aspects of the disappe...

Emergency beacon, no may day calls, no sign of trouble. and that has resulted in a number of questions about these two men. william takes a look at what weve learned about the captain, the co-pilot, and what was happening in that cockpit. >> megyn, one plane, 239 lives. dependent upon the character, judgment, and expertise of these pilots. deliberate or accident? what happened on flight 370 will always reflect on what these two men did or did not do. 53-year-old captain zahaire shah joined the a...