Page 24 - Flight Simulators News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

And this is, as i said, it's a progressing story. and i'm at it, and i hope to get more information from him. i do believe that he knows more than what he is telling me, but that he is all he is telling me for now. >> okay. a stung report by mah iram makrishnan for us tonight from kuala lumpur. joining us right now is nbc news correspondent tom costello who has been following this story for the past three weeks. tom, i have to tell you, you and i were talking, and you are the expert in trying figure out the flight path. you've been doing a brilliant job. i wonder how we do put together as a wo...

Used satellite data in this fashion. is that correct? >> no. for those of are who were not strong mathematic majors, i'm impressed by the entire thing. the concept that the satellite can detect that minuscule shift to calculate that location is incredible. >> we have heard a lot that at homes or pilots having access to flight simulators is a fairly common occurrence. in your experience is an in-home simulator something that many pilots have? >> yeah, in fact i had one on my laptop computer. with the high level of automation on the airplanes, the best way to learn it and to stay sharp with it i...

That the plane's unexpected sharp turn south 40 miles after takeoff was no accident. the fbi's already looking at the pilot's flight simulators. but our next guest says they'll need a lot more evidence to find out what really happened. tim murphy is a former deputy director for the fbi. we continue to focus on these pilots because we have nothing else to focus on. is that where you would focus? >> i think if the fbi is doing this. and they're not leading the investigation. they're assisting in the investigation, providing guidance, providing, hey, maybe you should look at the pilot, the co-pil...

Happen, it's sort of like muscle memory. they go back to a mental process they've already done before. if the engine does quit on a small airplane, they've already done it 15 times in the simulator and the airplane as well. >> coming up on 3,000. >> both the engines are wound back. >> i feel like we're losing thrust, we're losing thrust. >> although i'm not a licensed pilot, i've had plenty of flight instruction. i got the chance to land my own plane in the hudson river in one of the university's 36 flight simulators. i can tell you one thing, even in a training exercise, it's nerve-racking. >...

Overwritten can be meaningful. >> it depends what the erasure is. all of us who have flight simulators, you want to land, try to see if you can land. most of us don't do it successfully. but you want to try to see if you can land at the weirdest places on earth. so just flying around the earth and seeing different places might not tell us much of anything. that's what you do with -- like a microsoft flight simulator. where they went, what was there, what wasn't there, what's missing, the pains taken to take it away, if anyone else was on the flight simulator. all those things. i'm pretty confi...