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>> the developments are coming as u.s. intelligence officials tell cnn they believe that the pill on the are responsible for the jet's disappearance. we are joined by aviation analyst mary. it is so good to have you with us. what specifically are authorities looking for in that flight simulator that was in the captain's house? >> yes. some flight simulators save your recent work, save your recent routes flown. if the captain had flown a route similar to what they are picking up on the satellite pings or entered in other airports, maybe in the regions where they think the plane has gone, practi...

>> are we supposed to -- it sounds strange to us, we think about flight simulators. he had one in his home. should we make anything of that? >> not without some more evidence than that. if they go in and see that he was simulating this flight and the strange trajectory it took, that would get your attention. history of the few planes that have been brought down by suicides is that they never really discovered much in examinations of house and relatives and things like that. egypt air was a big case in the 1990s and that guy's background didn't indicate that he might take the plane down as he d...

Others in malaysia air that mip helped. they'll be looking at other pilots that might have trained on a 777. they'll be looking at any kind of problems, unrest, people who were disgruntled, and in doing that they're going to expand the net pretty far. but it's a pretty small group of people who are expert 777s. >> it's understandable why family members are so frustrated, they're not getting information, they don't have their loved ones, and people are really feeling like malaysian authorities are keeping information close, they are not trusting authorities. do you see this as relatively unders...

It begins to disappear essentially, a very deliberate 90-degree left-hand turn. that's very well understood. the systems begin to turn off. perhaps only able to turn off at the hand of someone very experienced in aviation. that begins to point them towards the cockpit. malaysian officials, of course, searching the homes of the two cockpit crew members, the two pilots, taking the flight simulators from one of the houses. you can begin to see a pattern not just u.s. officials but malaysian officials today even saying they are looking at the cockpit crew. they are looking still at all of the pass...

I remember years ago an faa inspector that i worked with said that he gave a flight check to a then-twa pilot and he said that the pilot was so good that he must have had a flight simulator in his basement. and it actually turned out that he did have a flight simulator in his basement because he had a passion for aviation, he was consumed with aviation, and it was just something that he did. so i don't think we can read too much into the fact that this captain had a flight simulator. a lot of kids have flight simulators on their computers. this captain's was a little more extravagant because h...