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U.s. for always thinking that hes always right. then he went back to organize an election where you cant vote no. you either might now or later. today, 12 whole days into the search for flight 370, the fbi is stepping up its involvement in the investigation. the u.s. agency has copies of the pilot and the co-pilots hard drives and its also going to be reviewing the flight simulator after word that data from that simulator was deleted sometime in february. >> were trying to offer whatever assis...

Is meaningless. the people add and delete, load and delete data from simulators constantly. but the owner of one simulator, manufacturer, says he believes it is unusual to delete data, because these files are very small and pilots often keep them on there to measure their progress in flight simulation. so getting differing opinions of whether its unusual or not to delete data from a flight simulator. now as far as that company you mentioned that manufactured the software for captain shahs home s...

Normal route to flight that the aircraft would be taking. >> so, theyre looking to see if theres anything suspicious that might indicate this pilot or co-pilot, the case of the simulator, that the pilot was rehearsing, if you will. thats the keyword ive heard all day. theyre looking for some indication of rehearsal. >> right now, nothing has been found, so certainly you dont want to cast dispersions where they dont belong. theyre going to look for that smoking gun piece of information. >> youre ...

Run the simulator, as well? did he have friends that could have been passengers on the plane. remember, if this was a criminal act -- we dont know that for sure. it could be an accident or criminal act. if it was a criminal act, the person who committed it is on board the plane or was on board the plane. 239 people, most of them are innocent souls. if it was a criminal act the suspect is on board. you have a narrow suspect list. you have to dive deeply into each and every person. >> as an aviato...

Approximation where it is it will rear its ugly head. it landed somewhere nicely or will be used on secondary mission or tried to do that and it crashed somewhere. bill: thank you from new york here. aviation professor and aviation attorney with your even simulator that you worked on for many years. thank you, sir. >> thank you, bill. bill: all right. heather: well investors looking ahead to comments from federal reserve chair janet yellen, now time to take a look at the markets right now. there...

Simulator. >> these can range from any possible number of combinations, emergencies and potential diversions, that these guys have to think about. it could be something as simple as the popping of the circuit breaker that would lead to a light that is used to look at the center console at night. you put the circuit breaker back in again. it goes through to looking at all four engines. they are going to have to fly, navigate and communicate pretty rapidly. we have heard of this mantra, the flight...

Direct access to the simulator, fbi technicians have the ability to retrieve deleted files. review of pilots and copilots emails did not turn up any evidence of premeditated plot. bill: what is on the files were hoping to hear. officials in thailand picked up the plane on radar. did not tell anyone for nine or 10 days. how significant is that or not, catherine? >> reporter: well, it does appear significant, bill. the thai radar data turned over in the last 24 hours raises questions about the del...

The disappearance of malaysia airlines flight 370 is still a mystery. here is what we know now the fbi is looking at the hard drive that was taken from the simulator in the pilots home. malaysian officials say some data was deleted prior to february 3rd. as for the search, u.s. officials tell cnn more evidence is pointing to the southern search corridor, in particular, a very specific slice, not the enormous entire indian ocean in the south, but an area, a swath near the waters off of perth, rig...

Marred drives. data goes on to a hard drive the same way frosting goes on to a cake. one layer at a time. and when you take a chunk of that frosting away, delete a file, it just creates room on the hard drive where more data is going to override it. >> if youre a person of this caliber, this is a tech guru. wouldnt he be savvy enough to delete the right way, meaning delete forever? >> yeah. but delete forever, in order to do that, you have to physically remove that hard drive from the computer. ...

In fact, they were, it seems to me that would take you in a whole different direction of your investigation, right? >> remember, were in day 11, and last friday, which would have been day 7 on the show we talked about where are the dossiers about the pilots? i dont think its prejudiced. its just common sense in the world we live in that you would have checked into the backgrounds. maybe theres nothing there, but it begs the question whether or not we soft pedaled it up until now. >> why not chec...