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Aircraft. and procedurally this is what you would be doing. it still leaves open the question of no communication. particularly going through a heavily trafficked air corridor. >> yeah. >> mary, does this tell you anything about the pilot and the co-pilot's actions? >> yes. it does. it says they were fighting mightily but it also says one other thing. in some planes, we hadn't talked about this. in some planes there is an emergency descent mode aside from the pilot niinitiating it. if the plane senses that the pressure has fallen below what it should be, the plane itself. this will happen in t...

>> experts say even if it was a wing with a fuel tank that was empty it is doubtful it will float past ten days. also this morning apparently they were able to track, shortly after the airplane made that big turn to the west, it dropped down to 12,000 feet and experts feel that was intentional to avoid radar. if it was at 12,000 feet, considering the fact that apparently there was -- or some traffic, that is a very busy air corridor, atç 12,000 feet it would have been cleared pretty much to fly anywhere. >> the floatation devices, they say when you're on an airplane your seat floats. wouldn'...

Learn more at first5california.com/parents welcome back. we're tracking breaking news tonight. a source close to the investigation of malaysia airlines flight 370 tells cnn according to military radar records, the plane made a sharp turn and dropped from 35,000 feet to 12,000 feet. let's see what that drop in altitude would look like. we want to go to martin savidge in a 777 flight simulator with flight trainer mitchell casado. a turn to 12,000 feet into a busy air corridor, i mean, what would that be like? i'm sure people would notice that. >> reporter: yeah, it surrounds dramatic. but we s...

Malaysian airlines, the transportation minister, as well as the department of civil aviation. it was a very sad moment when he announced that unfortunately, anderson, still no answers as to what happened. >> of course, that -- now that we know that the plane did, in fact, end up in the water. the question is, atika said, is why. richard quest, that is obviously due to continuing effort of investigators over the last several days. a lot of people may be following this over the weekend. there was new information that at one point, the plane was flying at some 12,000 feet, very low for an aircraf...

Let's not -- i don't want to get us all going in the direction where there's only one cause. something -- if, indeed, this happened mechanical, there's got to be more reasons than just one that this all happened. >> simple deduction. thank you very much. we appreciate it. stand by, everyone. stand by, everyone. it's the top of the hour. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com this is cnn breaking news. i'm don lemon in new york. new information now. this is breaking news here. brand-new information about the malaysia airlines flight 370's path and altitude. a cnn source tells us malaysian mili...