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How the airplane behaves in real life, we can simulate it, but in real life, that's very hard to say. >> mitchell, what's the peak for a commercial aircraft for altitude? >> the 777 200 is certified for 45,200 feet. that is the maximum altitude it can fly. that is not to say on some days it can't reach that altitude. some days it is really hot and the molecules are separated, they're far apart and it affects lift and it can't get to that height. >> this commercial aircraft beyond the 777, beyond the 777. >> beyond the 777, i mean you're looking at between 35,000, 41,000 feet. but going up to 4...

Asiana landing at san francisco a year and a half ago. and it's built on 747 technology and boeing builds pretty solid, pretty sound airplanes. air malaysia has 17 of them, of these 777 200 ers and they've been operating them for a long time. so, the airplane has a superb safety record. it's a little difficult for me to believe it's a mechanical problem. >> looking to the past sometimes can give us clues to the future. let's talk about some of the other incidents that we've seen and some of the theories that have risen out of them. let's look at tw 800, paris-pound flight exploded mid-air off ...

We are now on our way to beijing, as was the original flight plan. so, everything is set up in that particular way. one of the things we should talk about, carol, is the redundancy factor something the pilot here had mentioned. this aircraft, the 777 200 designed to go long distances and be out in the middle of no where. multiple backup systems and some suggested maybe they lost power and electricity to all of this. there are backups to that, right? >> there are a lot of backups. the electrical system, just that one system has six separate backup systems. the hydraulics is backed up eight time...

Caution. we have on the wall the dimensions of a 777 200, wingspan 200 feet long, the length about 200 feet long as well. when you talk of these potential pieces as seen many the satellite images, 43 by 59, 43 by 62, that could be any part of the plane or in fact these are busy water, it could be something else. and because the speed of the plane may have hit the water, hard to identify. it may not look like a piece of a plane from the air. that's the difficulty now. we're told by barbara starr who spoke with a senior pentagon official that the u.s., which of course has its own accurate and ca...

Two more passengers traveling on false documents. they're converging on this area in the gulf of thailand in the south china sea, the plane's last known location. on saturday the vietnamese military spotted two large fuel slicks on the water. now, it's not known if those are in any way connected to this missing 777, but it's all they have to go on at this moment so the search is concentrating in that area. three americans are among the 239 passengers and crew members including phillip wood, an ibm executive from texas. the plane, a boeing 777 200 series, nearly 12 years old, considered middle ...