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Is what we call it. and would have headed right for the airport. and would have been just as they demonstrated there, a direct point. >> as the "new york times" reports, the waypoint that was added in was so far off course from the planned route to beijing. what does that tell i? >> that tells me they were considering another diversion or they were possibly -- they might have entered their original -- the departure airport, kuala lumpur. its hard to say. i mean, apparently the information only i...

Malaysian authorities say so far, any, all the searches that have been done of the captain and first officers homes, computers, the flight sim sim later, its turned up nothing suspicious. >> its not like they got that computer two minutes ago. it doesnt take much for a forensic review of the hard disk to say was this a, was there like a practice on the simulator so they can now say hey, it looks like he followed that rehearsal that was on the flight simulator. i think one of the questions that i...

Lets bring in someone who knows a thing or two about flying. daniel rose, a pilot and aviation attorney and also cnn aviation correspondent richard quest. so, all right, guys, welcome back to the program here. well get to this fire theory in a minute. on the news were hearing, there was nothing suspicious on the at-home simulator. nothing suspicious between the pilot and air traffic control. nothing suspicious in e-mails. your reaction? >> i think thats been the problem all along with this so ca...

The route happened about 12 minutes before the last communication. that all right, good knight. which again for those saying people in the cockpit knew was going on lends itself to that belief. how easy is it though for anyone to reprogram a flight in the cockpit youre in right now? >> well, we can show you that here in the simulator. its quite easy. its another piece of the avionics gear to learn about. this time the fms or the flight management system. its here. theres one up in the pilots pos...

>> i want to go to mitchell now. i want to talk about that flight simulator. you know how this 777 works, sophisticated airliner. so what do you believe? what do you believe happened having worked with the very similar airliner, especially with that simulator? >> well, as far as the simulator goes, a lot of questions have been raised about him having a simulator in his house. for a pilot, that is as per normal, nothing out of the ordinary there. pilots, its a passion to fly. its not just a job. ...

We do not have any concrete evidence as to where flight 370 might be. could terrorists be in possession of this plane? with me is fox news contributor casey mcfarland. look, it is thought to be this is a terrorist act. the simulator of the captain of the plane. could this be a dry run the way we saw in 94 in? >> tsz a dry run. we say what do we know? what do they know? what have we learned if this is a dry run? you can buy tickets with crash. if the bad guys are doing this what have they learned...

Because youre no longer talking to atc and the other atc is expecting you but it might not come right away so it may be several minutes before the new atc starts looking for you. >> bob, the idea of the flight simulators in the pilots home, what do you make of the suggestion he has it there and that it somehow indicative of some type of bad intent. >> i think the important thing is to look and see whats on the simulator, if theres something thats indicative that he was planning something, then t...

If it didnt, then thats something else, meaning the s.a.t. com had been turned off at that point and was turned on again later on seven or eight hours later. >> what so many people agree, it is highly unlikely this is just a big coincidence. david souci, thank you for your insight. john lucic, as well. richard quest, stick around if you will. more questions than answers for pretty much anyone involved in this now mystery. how did both communication systems on board that plane get turned off duri...

Authorities in plainclothes seen leaving the residence of fariq hamid and later seizing the flight simulator from captain zaharie shah. >> a reflection of his love for flying. >> reporter: investigators are interested in the simulated routes the pilot may have been flying that could still be on the simulators hard drive. >> the other thing that could be important is whether the pilot trained anyone else on the simulator. >> reporter: investigating the pilots requires a deep dive into their healt...

Tinkering, any planning or practicing maneuvers, will be stored on a hard drive. >> so in other words, if he had preplanned this, if he had had wanted to actually try it, he could have loaded all that information into the simulator as if it were the real flight. >> yep, absolutely, he could have. and thats going to be important for investigators to look through now and see if there was any premeditation to this. >> the problem with a tool like that, it could be used by a pilot to practice, to ho...