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I would hope that they would err on the side of getting that information out there. but we too have to protect our capabilities. >> mary, you raise an interesting point. that even if they can't find what the information that's been overwritten, the mere fact that information was intentionally overwritten can be meaningful. >> it depends what the erasure is. i guess i have to confess this. 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. you want to...

Retrieving deleted computer data from the captain's home flight simulator that was fairly expensive relatively and an elaborate setup in his home with three monitors and some flight simulators have less. files were erased on the simulator on february 3rd. the first time american assistance has been requested to help solve the flight's disappearance. president obama spoke about the search calling it a top priority for the united states and saying the government has made every resource available to the mailingsian government. joining us now, nbc news terrorism analyst and former fbi special agen...

Personal computers, so, you have to periodically delete files. i don't see that as sinister in any way, however, they need to be investigated those files need to be recovered. >> of course. are flight simulators at home common, uncommon? >> they're pretty common. you know, pilots are in the business of aviation because they love aviation. it's much more than a job. it's a tremendous passion that extended well beyond their flying for whatever agency or corporate outfit they're flying. >> and steve, what do you make of all the data we have, all the evidence, the flight's path was reprogrammed to...

Regular route flight that trip would be saved in the flight management computer as a code and then they fly that trip every time they fly that flight. >> mm-hmm. and same reckoning of this? because i'm trying to give every benefit of the doubt to the pilots that we can until the facts dictate otherwise. this does line up like a bad fact. this isn't routinely and not ne people? >> i don't see any reason they would do that unless they had -- perhaps a specific reason, they had to have an alternate, they were running low on fuel, something like that, then they might say, look, i want to have this...

Automated message. by that time the plane went west. this all happening without word from the co pilot. when he spoke 12 minutes later at 1:19 a.m., he said all right, good night. >> kelly has been following the latist for us. >> a spoiks man says he had a clear intent of doing something bad in this plane. adding to his skrefrn gative recoveries from the flight simulators. it shows half a dozen remote landing slips. he waited ten-days before reporting it. there is published reports of people living on the island of maldives say a low flying plain at 3:58 a.m. on march 8th.