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The details raise questions about whether pilots got enough training before they took boeing's new aircraft into the skies. cnn's senior investigate was correspondent drew griffin has been digging on the story. >> the 737 max was promoted as a newer, more efficient version of boeing's popular plane, so similar to the older versions of the 737 that only minimal pilot training was required. boeing's chief test pilot described the training in the interview with flight global saying airlines could take their 737 pilots, give them 2 1/2 hours of ground training on an ipad and they would be good to ...

>> thank you, from flight global. i apologize, my line clicked in about 25 minutes after the hour so i missed some of the calls, have you released the registration of the aircraft and also repeat any details specific when the aircraft took off about how long it flew and the direction, i apologize if you already said some of this information. >> the registration number was n 4494s and we believe he took off at 7:32 p.m. >> and the crash time? >> we -- again, all of this information is extremely preliminary but we lost contact with him at 8:37 p.m. >> operator next call. >> another question. >> ...

If at all? >> not sure how much they can do. it has been again so long since the crash. and i imagine modeling ocean currents could be extremely difficult. we have seen certain graphics publications to show this is not inconsistent with the crash off the coast of -- western australia. so -- while this does dismiss some of the more bizarre conspiracy theories i don't think it gets us that much closer to actually locating the keys to the investigation which are the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder which are absolutely essential for the understanding of the disaster. >> all rig...

Watching this so closely hoping to get some answers. david will be connecting with us throughout the day from hong kong. david, thank you. at this moment we want to turn to greg waldron, asian manage editor for "flight global" joins us live from singapore to talk about what a very encouraging development, i want to find out from you, based on scarce info we have now. how confident are you that this is in fact mh-370? >> well it seems consistent with the flaperon of a 777, aircraft. the size is right. this would probably be a part of the aircraft that would float assuming it got loose from the ...