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>> one of fariq's next flights would be his last, malaysia 370. and what about the pilot sitting beside fariq hamid? captain za mary ahmed shah, and the flight simulator he had built in his home to practice landings. >> yesterday, officers visited home of the pilot. >> it seemed like a potential lead until investigators declared it a dead end. >> the examination of the flight simulators revealed nothing suspicious for the authorities. >> like first officer fariq, zaharie lacked any apparent motive. >> many aspects of the case have been centered on the captain, and the more they've looked, the ...

The pug et sound. >> people who knew him were stunned by this. they hadn't seen the signs and you actually had a chance to speak with someone, a friend of his who knew him well. what did they say? >> reporter: right, we're beginning to get a clearer sense of what russell was like as a colleague and employee and friend. i spoke with somebody who worked with him for eight solid months. his name is jeremy californiaen he said what happened is completely at odds with the person he knew. he said he was an extremely hard worker and good friend and he had a terrific sense of humor. he also says that ...

Aircraft. to our knowledge, he didn't have a pilots license. so to be honest with you, i mean, commercial aircraft are complex machines. they're not as easy to fly as, say, a cessna 150. so i don't know how he achieved the experience that he did. >> reporter: alaska air group, the parent company of horizon, says this plane theft will push the airline to re-evaluate their post 9/11 security. but a former horizon airline worker says even a minimally trained ground service worker could do this with online flight simulators. >> part of his job description on tow team was to operate some of the sys...

Help out with, or -- when he was working with you on your flight he would work as hard as he could. >> you saw the home video of him doing those maneuvers. >> yes. >> reporter: he seemed like, to a certain degree, he knew what he was doing as a pilot or behind the controls. >> yeah. well, you can learn how to fly with flight simulators if you buy them. you can literally run them on your pc, mac, whatever. his part of the tow team was to operate some of the systems he was trained to do by horizon air which is part of the tow team. so, essentially, he took that knowledge and built off of it. >> ...

This is something that some of your competition brought up. at the third coming of 9/11. things move around all the time. engines are tested from airplanes or flight tested. they move around. it wouldn't necessarily bring any attention to anything. an airplane moving happened. what we have is a situation of a rogue employee, but now we have to deal with that plus the fact despite some stories where some stories were take the flip of a switch, that is not true. it takes some skill and knowledge of the airplane you'll not get from a computer program. >> we understand that he may be flight simula...