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Or was there still -- some sort of catastrophic event on the plane where they lost all electronics and navigation and ability to communicate and did the pilots then try to make it back to malaysia in theory become incapacitated and plane kept on flying? a lot of theories out here and we havent even gotten into all of the 007 james bond theories about the plane landing on some island somewhere. you can see how right now the focus is only on what we know and what we know is a plane was last seen h...

Engines, a myriad of scenarios. >> looking at this, i wouldnt know where to begin. obviously a lot going on for a pilot. did it strike you as strange the pilot had a simulator in his home? >> jenna, i really dont think so. i think its encouraging. because of the scenarios involved with potential emergencies, this guy could merely be having a simulator to play those out. he was a training captain. its his responsibility to train co-pilots coming onto the fleet. >> gives us an idea how complicated...

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By the late 1930s, 80% of japanese oil was imported from the united states. by 1940, fdr imposed an embargo of natural resources to japan. finally, all oil export were stopped. >> there are those who say that war was inevitable after the united states cut off aviation, gasoline and high tensile steel and things like that. is that true? >> the fact that they thought that war was inevitable is partially true. i say that because the japanese committed themselves to a full war effort after the embar...

Thorough once-over before rejoining the fleet. thats after passengers aboard a southwest 737 watched a large hole rip over at 36,000 feet in the air on friday. a flight safety expert told me earlier today what likely happened. >> southwest operates aircraft in whats called a high-cycle, high-fatigue environment. they run up and down. in other words, the plane goes from ground to altitude, back down which is a pressurization cycle quite frequently, much more so than a lot of other airlines. what ...

Where there are better collections of oil and then guiding the fleet. about 15 vessels out there. guiding the fleet to other patches of oil where they start those fires again. we saw about seven fires yesterday burning. very hot and very big fires. they claim they can get thousands of barrels a day out this way. they are going to keep on doing it until there is no more oil to burn. >> extraordinary images. give me an idea what this smoke does to the environment, whether it the water, the wildlif...