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Significant changes in altitude after they lost contact with the cockpit. it flew up to 45,000 feet and then descended uneven unevenly erratically to 23,000 feet. walk us through these scenarios, what youre seeing over there in the simulator. youre there with a pilot trainer. help us appreciate better what is going on, martin. >> reporter: wolf, we were just trying to go through these numbers that are being reported here. the first thing that struck us was the altitude. 45,000 feet. thats incred...

Was it these areas? were the pilots literally wrestling with the controls? ive got one question for michael of the "times." do you as a result of this, sir, well maybe when wolfs ready for this, but do you as a result of this, have a preferred option for why this took place? >> i have no idea. and given all the things that have come out in the past few days it would be knee enaive of even speculate on that. one thing we talked about earlier was there were a lot of lithium batteries on this plane...

Improvement. police have been outside of his home since flight 370 vanished. they have not yet entered or searched the home according to malaysian officials. flight 370 may have flown up to five hours after the last contact with the pilots. there are more theories and questions about what happened. was there mechanical and communications failure? could it have been a suicide crash by one of the pilots or did someone enter the cockpit and take over the plane? >> there seems to be a real trail tha...

Who is joining us in beijing. for the loved ones who are waiting this the clearly a heartwrenching experience. >> a heartwrenching experience, wolf and with every day new theories that gives these people some kind of hope even though one believes that hope has all but vanished. now what would be a worst-case scenario for everyone who deals with plane crashes, that of a hijacking or terrorist attack appears to be what people are saying is their best case scenario. several family members we talk t...

Set of things. maybe it affects other 777s. thats why its imperative and they will find it, imperative they find probable cause. ultimate cause could take three or four years. >> youre an expert on terrorism. have you seen any indication that anyone out there, any terror group, lone wolf terror group have claimed responsibility or talking about this, chatter, if you will? >> the short answer is no, wolf. we did see chinese martyrs brigade which is something weve never heard of claim responsibili...

Oceanographic institution. hes part of the team that found air france flight 447 in the atlantic ocean off the coast of brazil. how difficult is it? the waters of the indian ocean, specifically, from those waters are very deep. what, about ten times the height of the empire state building. >> yeah, thats right, wolf. its going to be very different, much more difficult than working inside the gulf of thailand where the water depth is less than the length of the airplane. here were talking about w...

That were now collecting, the u.s. navy moving ships into the indian ocean, we just heard it from a commander in the u.s. navy seventh fleet. what are you hearing? >> its time for the malaysians to actually give some more information. and its ten past 6:00 in the morning in kuala lumpur, but the shear breadth and depth and turn, wolf, this has taken in the last hour, the suggestions that are now flying around that youve been reporting, of what this plane did, where it went, how it behaved, what ...

See if that plane met all of its air worthiness directives. everything is on the table but its just a bit suspicious that that primary radar feed that the military put out is enough and rolls royce is denying the notion that the aircraft was pinging data on the performance of the engine. >> i think theyre not commenting. i dont know if theyre formally denying. >> you know, wolf, such a mess. not to beat up on the malaysians, they just got caught off guard over their head with a huge investigatio...

Problem, wolf, at this point from our perspective is that theyve done a poor job of managing the. >> whos they? >> the malaysian authorities in charge of this. so the actual investigation at a law enforcement level can only go so far to determine whats happening. and so thats one thing with the police. but the actual authorities that know radars and know the communications systems of the aircraft with the controllers on the ground at the airport in kuala lumpur, you know, what actually the infor...

A day ago. the last words heard from the crew of the plane were, quote, "all right, good night." that, according to the "strait times" newspaper. one of the crew members seen here earlier in cnn video. the last message reportedly sent as plane entered vietnamese air space. asking experts to help analyze radar data that suggests the plane reversed course, headed back across malaysia. lets bring in our cnn aviation correspondent, rene marsh, watching this for us. lets begin, rene, with the airline...