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Carried as many passengers as flight 370, but there was one disappearance in 2003, in angola, at the country's largest airport there was a boeing 727 that had been parked for month, racking up $4 million in airport fees, which is four times the amount they paid for it after it was pushed out of circulation. one person, ben charles padilla, who was a certified air frame and power plant mechanic who was called a gifted mechanic and was able to fly small planes. also a father of two. minutes before sunset, padilla and another mechanic got on the boeing 727 that they were working on, tail number 8...

>> over 630 different potential landing sites that were established in this search radius because of the size of the 777 it would need 7,000 to land and an experienced pilot could do it less than that, about 5,000 feet but if it was landing be used for takeoff it needs that longer length. >> when you look at the hijacking theory there seems no reason why a hijacker would turn off the transponder and all sorts of abilities to track the plane and then just ditch it where no one can see. >> unless went wrong. >> that's why something else happened. something else happened. >> something else happen...

Need our focus. >> i have a question from jim sciutto for you. >> commander marks, the p-8 is a new air frame down there with remarkable surveillance capabilities. can you describe how that works in searching a size as large as the indian ocean? >> sure. the p-8 is the very latest in our technology. it's a significant upgrade over the p-8 and it's the most advanced type of the plane in the world right now. it's 20% faster and can fly at 500 knots compared to 420 for the p-3. it gives you more search time. and in terms of the radar coverage and software technology, simply a huge leap into the n...

The plane but you did not immediately destroy the air frame, those -- it could progress over a few minutes in a time where you would lose both of those depending on what was happening in the belly -- >> are you suggesting the plane could have been in auto pilot with everybody on board dead? wow, does anybody else believe it was a possibility? >> possibility. >> there was an air-worthiness that came out on the triple 7 recently, there is no way that asia air could comply with it. it warned of corrosion -- >> why would that shut down the communications system. let me ask you, as an investigator,...

That. we're about to go so slow we're going to fall out of the air. he's on the razor's edge of either toppling over the top too fast or too slow we're going to collapse down to the ground. let me show you what happens if you go over the top now and decide to descend at that rate. which you couldn't do, 40,000 feet, mitchell, push us over the top. >> let's do it. >> reporter: what you're going to find out there's going to be a tremendous g force that starts to build up. the alarms, the sink rate. what's that telling us? >> telling us we're sinking too fast and going too fast. you can hear the ...