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>> yeah. >> uncomfortable. >> it's uncomfortable us even here watching it. steve wallace, as an accident investigator, you know, we're going through these particular scenarios. and i think that mark weiss brings up a very good point. if you have an oxygen mask on and you're trying to communicate and all these things, you know, what does all that mean? go ahead, steve wallace. >> well, i'm surprised they don't have them in the simulator because they train to do that. i've flown smaller pressurized airplanes. they're designed you can put them on in a few seconds. they're right up behind you. rea...

United states that have a desire to move their people around. so this airplane was designed from the beginning to be maintained and used in countries like china and other countries where they don't have the technical skills and they don't understand english very well. so it's really -- it's almost like a computer for a multinational audience. >> and les abend is with us as well. when we see this it's fascinating to see what it looks like, most of us have never seen on a plane before. you fly 777s, you know the plane very well. we still don't know the circumstances of why that acars system or h...

Near that -- those components, so, that's -- that's my contention, then they slowly started to see that they were having an issue by messages on their screen and they are dealing with that. >> captain abend and retired colonel pete field, two very smart men, experienced in the field, pun intended. we appreciate you both joining us and lending us your expertise in this matter in the ongoing search for flight 370. chris? >> all right, thanks very much. we are following big stories this morning, big concerns coming out of crimea, just one more day to spring and of course, new information into the...

Investigators. they are still looking at all the things that we are sitting around discussing are things that they are sitting around discussing. >> yeah. i would say the most significant thing, though, is that what law enforcement officials tell me is that if this was terrorism, this is a completely new paradigm. this is something that they've never seen before. there was no chatter leading up to it, no claim of responsibility now. they scrubbed the flight manifest. they looked at all these people as hard as they could. and they've they really haven't found anything. so they say, look, if thi...

Sort of force its way in because they have this expertise on this issue. but otherwise, as we've seen so far they're still not very involved. >> michael schmidt, good to have you on the program as always. mary schiavo as well. captain abend is going to stick around and he'll be joined by two other veteran pilots bringing years of experience to bear on all the scenarios investigators are looking at. we'll answer some of your questions. follow me @andersoncooper. this more than 12-minute window between the programming and the last communication, we're going to take you to the flight simulator ...