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Those deleted files? >> i think so. i hope so. at least, it will tell us what it was he was practicing. and what locations he was aiming for and what the headings and settings were that he put into that flight sim. >> the designated path from kuala lumpur to beijing, china, was programmed into the aircraft's flight management computer, which controls speed, direction, even altitude. but according to the transpon r transponder, 26 minutes after takeoff, that prearranged course was dramatically altered. was it a hijacking, or a rogue act by the pilot? or was the crew seeking an emergency landing...

Those deleted files? >> i think so. i hope so. at least, it will tell us what it was he was practicing. and what locations he was aiming for and what the headings and settings were that he put into that flight sim. >> the designated path from kuala lumpur to beijing, china, was programmed into the aircraft's flight management computer, which controls speed, direction, even altitude. but according to the transpon r transponder, 26 minutes after takeoff, that prearranged course was dramatically altered. was it a hijacking, or a rogue act by the pilot? or was the crew seeking an emergency landing...

Off the coast of australia, nothing so far. a huge attention to what happened in the cockpit. could some clues be buried deep in it's memory. that is something the fbi is trying to find out. >> we know the pilot had deleted some of the data from the system or there was data deleted from the system. we don't know it was the pilot. like your old male-mails and ot computer files. our pamela brown is in washing wi washington with details. pam, why don't we start with you and give us an idea of what investigators are looking for in this data on the hard drive. >> bottom line, the fbi is throwing a ...

Part of their investigation into his home, they are also going to be looking at his computer, websites, that the captain and first officer, who are both under scrutiny, they will look at that as well. >> just so we are clear, the flight simulator is on a computer. it is just microsoft flight sim mu lay tore that you can go buy off the shelf. it just had a lot of customization to it. it is just an ordinary computer program like a gaming program that you might find. there are three things you are going to be looking at. one, what websites was this person looking at to get an idea of what their p...

Turn like that? well, it's not uncommon -- who has extensive experience to put in an emergency, go back to base sort of turn in case they run into trouble, but it also raises question about whether there was some sort of plot being worked out and this was all part of that plot. and so, it's a really rather large development, one that the investigators can use to try to piece together a story, but what they really can't do is answer the question until they get some sort of wreckage. hopefully a black box. >> obviously, and kerry, you brought up the pilot, i just want to bring up this sort of ad...