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Airline pilot, it is hard to visualize what might have gone on inside the cockpit of flight 370. martin savidge is back inside a flight simulator to walk us through some of the details. richard quest also joins us, spent time with malaysia airlines before this incident. martin, you've been taking a closer look at the maintenance information system known by the acronym acars. tell us more about it. >> yeah, this is one of those things that up until now the average flying public knew nothing about but of course any pilot at least on an aircraft like this would know. acars. think of it as an alte...

We're on the ground. after you're on the ground and land and taxi off the runway, you're no longer a factor for any traffic so there's no point in you being on the screen, you turn it off and save the air traffic controllers the hassle of trying to declutter the screen. >> but never in the air, only once on the ground and the flight is over. >> richard, the fact that the acars was not functioning, again, we don't know why, what does that tell you? >> what it tells me is that either it was disabled and degraded or something so dramatic happened that it -- that it literally cut it off. but here'...

Practiced. >> obviously that's something investigators have now in their possession and are going to be looking at to see what they can learn from that flight simulator. jim, stay with us, we're going to stake a short break and have more on how the flight could have flown for so many hours undetected. how is that possible. plus how the families of the missing are coping. we'll talk to a grief counselor who spent time with some of them. we'll be right back. ork for $17? yup. all 5 of you for $175. our clients need a lot of attention. there's unlimited talk and text. we're working deals all day....

And do we know if police have talked to the family? >> reporter: we do know that the police have talked to the family. we know that the pilot's family has not been at the house recently. we don't -- we're not really able to confirm whether or not they left the day before this flight happened. those little details, there's a lot of inconsistent reporting in the press. as you know from watching what's happened this last week, the authorities have also not really been consistent in exactly the whereabouts of the pilot's family. >> appreciate you looking into that and also there has been a lot of ...