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We are going now, which is landing on one of those runways. martin savidge is live in a 777 simulator with a pilot trainer, mitchell. our viewers know him well. 777 needs a runway 8,000 feet. les abend says runways are 10,000 feet. this is all hypothetical. i know 777 er could land on a much smaller runway if there was an emergency, if fuel was low, right? how short around can you do it? >> well, first of all, its a simulator, a simulator is not exactly as the 777 might act, but it is doggone cl...

The relationship between the two pilots. >> at the same time, the co-pilot will be putting out a may day call. so, for me, the importance of the simulator goes beyond just simple procedures. it is key to the training. these guys have to sit in the simulator every year and pass a simulator test. >> are they going through that simulator now, the fbi, to determine whether he had been practicing these scenarios you werus the mentioning? >> i think it is very real. depending on what parts of the rout...

Simulator. you have worked on one? >> that is correct. >> as a pilot, how much time did you send on the simulator? >> going through training, one hour blocks or up to three hours if you are flying a full mission. >> is it loaded with random air strips? does it show you places you can put a plane down? >> yes, it can. you will have a database of the region you are flying in and the runways in the region you are flying. >> would you ever delete your files on a simulator? does the computer get over...

Minutes ahead of time. >> that was my next question. because its one thing for who knows what happened in the cockpit. you are telling me someone on the ground would have had to see that change as well. thats the way the system is designed. a message was received on the ground. acars is about the only way they would have gotten there. they would have received it and they should have known 12 minutes ahead of time that plane. lets focus on part of what you showed us and the fact that we know abou...

And you are right at the end. speeds 40 miles. >> crashing here? >> 40 miles an hour. it can be done. but again, its a simulator. >> are you on the runway now -- youre off, it arent you? >> well, its gone -- gone just beyond the edge. >> okay. >> but in theory, you know, with that speed. and this landing gear, say some of the biggest and most fortified of any aircraft like this, its survivable. thats what youre talking about here. this is emergency. not going to turn the plane around again, refu...

The search for flight 370 spans millions of square miles over land and over sea. the equivalent of trying to find a grain of sand in manhattan or trying to find one typo in 600 bibles. to make matters worse, the search for flight 370 is becoming a race against time, as well. the flight data and cockpit voice recorders have batteries that are designed to keep sending out pings to help locate them. that effectively would last for 30 days. and since were now 12 days in, that leaves 18 days until th...

Turned, we dont know if it was a programmed turn, or if it was hand flown. it could have been turned with the auto pilot. if theres an emergency, pilots are trained to ave yat, navigate and then communicate. they might not have had time to communicate, i like to keep that in mind also as this is going along at this point. >> i like the fact that the guy had 18,000 hours in the air, that should give people confidence that are flying in that airplane. the fact that he had a simulator tells me enjo...

Hazardous materials that could have exploded? what we know is that the plane turned, we dont know if it was a programmed turn, or if it was hand flown. it could have been turned with the auto pilot. if theres an emergency, pilots are trained to ave yat, navigate and then communicate. they might not have had time to communicate, i like to keep that in mind also as this is going along at this point. >> i like the fact that the guy had 18,000 hours in the air, that should give people confidence tha...

Once youre in the aircraft, anything is possible. >> also, the malaysian media is reporting that a half dozen remote landing strips were found on the 53-year-old pilots flight simulator recovered from his home in suburban kuala lumpur. they were preprogrammed into the simulator said to include strips in the indian ocean, the maldives, vsri lanka, and the suggest it could be on u.s. territory was dismissed out right. >> some news reports are saying that the missing flight could have landed in the...

>> thats correct, reverend. the big thing here is that one of the pilots could have programmed both flight plans, and then when the other pilot returned to the cockpit and asked, is it ready to go? yes, weve got the flight plans programmed in. theyll put it up on the primary flight displays, see that the flight plans been programmed in, were good to go. >> all right. were looking at different angles throughout this hour the show today. and just ill end this part of this new segment, because we h...