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Out, we decided to with the simulator run through everything we knew of 370, going from waiting at the gate, the passengers loading, then the pushback, the taxi on the runway. the takeoff. everything. and pretty much it came out exactly the same. i won't say used the same radio calls, but almost the same step by step. so it doesn't seem under the ordinary, with the exception that mitchell, one point towards the very end, malaysian 370 maintaining flight level 3500, meaning 35,000 feet. and just about six minutes and 40 seconds later, repeats it. and that seemed a bit odd. >> it's a little odd ...

Knots. and when it gets to 12,000 feet it's going to level off on that heading and the throttles are going to come up and that airplane is going to hold 275 knots or whatever that heading is set until it runs out of gas if no one intervenes. that may explain at the high powered setting this they were going faster than 250. if he used flch to do an emergency descent, that filter flight level change, that gets you down the very fastest. the auto throttles pull them back to idle. at 12,000 fight the auto idles will come back up and fly at 12,000 feet. >> this is fascinating i think and very signi...

Simulator, martin savidge and mitchell casavo. and miles o'brien and richard quest. there's a question that miles brought up two nights ago if one engine konked out before the other. can you show us how that would impact the plane's heading? >> reporter: right. miles and i actually spoke on the telephone and sort of worked this through. so mitchell casado will shut down one engine. >> this is the fuel control for the engines. left engine, right engine. pull the fuel control lever cutoff. you can see that we have the engine rolling back the edt the temperature of the air coming out the back of ...

Even though it is a jumbo jet. and in this scenario we've set up is that one engine will turn off. essentially, the fuel begins to run up, we lose the left engine. the simulator shows that now. there's the engine shutdown. tell us what's going on on the screen there, mitchell. >> this is the left engine gauges, right engine gauges. and we're basically seeing this engine shut down. so, it's decreasing. this is the temperature inside the engine, it's decreasing because it's not working anymore. the speed of the engine is slowing down. and we can see engine "l" shutdown. that's engine left shutdo...

About how information has changed one from being accurate to not accurate. but if that is accurate, the idea is that it looks like it could have been a controlled descent. i think that's important as opposed to the aircraft just descending as if it's crashing. or intentionally dropped to 12,000 feet by the pilots. >> okay. stand by. les? >> well, it's -- it's a great point. i think that if there was some compelling reason to get down lower, albeit loss of pressurization or a fire, you know, to evacuate the smoke, there was a very compelling reason to do it, it probably still would have been do...