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In quantico, virginia, theyre combing through the hard drives that include software owned by the planes captain. why? >> some data has been deleted from the simulator and work to retrieve this is ongoing. >> investigators arent saying what data was deleted or if the captain or someone else deleted it. as one simulator user said, all of us load and delete files in the sim continuously. 777 pilot les abe said he may have felt there wasnt enough space and may have deleted a basic training exercise ...

Would want too go in there and fly a simulator after theyve just flown for eight hours. >> thats what im wondering. >> its apparent this pilot was just immersed in flying in some way, shape or form. >> greg, if in a simulator that sophisticated, what are the chances we can delete the computer files? >> im not an expert but the forensic guys who do the work will probably get some of those deleted files, in not all of them. >> authorities are still looking into when they were deleted. they are mak...

Investigation became a criminal case. investigators reassembled that simulator focusing on evidence that points to premeditation. this morning once the commotion died down authorities told reporters about this new evidence. >> some files have been deleted from the simulator. i would like to say that the passengers, the pilots and crew remain innocent until proven otherwise. >> reporter: investigative source also tells fox news they are trying to answer a series of questions as one example did th...

Missing malaysian flight 370. nbc news learned the fbi is assisting in the analysis of a hard drive of computers taken from the pilots homes. investigating the detailed law of the flight simulator confiscated from the home of flight 370s pilot. however, another aspect of the mystery nearly took over malaysias news conference today. family members of the missing chinese passengers tried to storm the event before it began. chinas home to more than two-hirds of the missing passengers did and the go...

Concerned, were still talking about a big area and were still talking about an area that is concentrated toward the south. its a massive part of the indian ocean near australia. the australians are deeply involved in this, as is the u.s. navy. theyre using this poe -- poseidon aircraft. here is the complication, even if they find debris at this point, they would use ocean currents to try to figure out where the debris came from and try to determine where the point of impact would have been. this...

In november of 2012 and deleted some files this year. will that contain a landing, takeoff plan? where was the airport? if it was an airport in the south indian ocean that could have been significant. or we could have been deleting a simulation he didnt like. >> some data has been deleted from the similator and ulator a would like to say the pilot and people remain innocence until proven. >> reporter: they believe they will be able to get the files.

Youtube clip he posted on internet. bill: age 53. copilot. age 27. catherine herridge live in washington on this. what are we learn about these files, catherine? >> reporter: good morning, bill. malaysian authorities confirming a piece of evidence that the a review of the 52-year-old pilot. saw hairy shahs simulator were deleted. that the forensic reviews, simulator was focused on evidence of premeditation that deleted files were red flag. malaysias acting transport minister telling reporters a ...

>> oftentimes are able to retrieve files that appear to have been deleted, but werent. they were artifacts of those left on the hard drive. >> while experts of the lab in quantico, virginia are trying to retrieve missing files from that hard drive, theyre looking at how the data was deleted. >> if you were just deleting files to provide more room, youd just delete it once. you wouldnt go through and completely destroy the file. >> many in u.s. law enforcement are baffled because they left is sim...

Looking in. and say, hey, we have expertise in this, we can help you find the deleted files. i dont think the united states wants to be running this investigation, but i think they want to be more involved than they are now. the fbi has a few agents on the ground in malaysia that are taking in the information that comes in but arent really playing a larger role than that. >> michael, we were talking about how elaborate that simulator was in his home. do we have any idea how long he had this? whe...

Flight simulator. the question is when it was deleted, why it was deleted, if it was deleted right before the flight as if it was something premeditated. greg feith with the national transportation safety board, is this information notable to you on a scale of one to ten? can you hone in on this and tell us how important it is. >> i think right now its a 7 to 8 only because these fly simulators, especially as elaborate as the captains flight simulator, can enable him to go out and log flights. t...