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Met working with underprivileged children. >> if you were allowed to choose a pilot on board of the plane, i would definitely choose him. >> reporter: why is that? >> i feel confidence and trust in him, because of the joy and the passion in flying, and, you know, if something had happened to this flight, i would think, and in fact, i would believe that he would have made sure of the safety and the welfare of everyone else before he even thinks of himself, and that is the kind of person that he is. >> reporter: much has been made of the flight simulator that the captain had in his home. >> it i...

Does it read like a deliberate turn? >> it looks like a deliberate turn, the question is whether the pilot did it or someone else? i fly flight simulators on my mack and change the heading in a matter of seconds. you dial it in the heading and sul you'll see the magnetic arc -- >> that is so nerdy and impressive. >> i can go major aviation geek on you. i'll spare you that. the point is in flight it doesn't take a lot to change direction of the aircraft. >> and it's a sharp turn like that. it could have been some sudden change in circumstances that triggered that? >> it could have been an intru...

Now at last count, you saw how big the circle looks, a 35,000 square foot area that has could be combed through. is it possible that we never find this plane? >> you can never say never. but right now, with what we don't have, any kind of wreckage that would be on the surface, what you would expect, especially if the airplane that large went into the water, it would have been a catastrophic break-up, you would expect to see a lot of floats. we don't see it. the longer with we go, if the aircraft is in the water, it may spread out and we may never find the origin or bulk wreckage because it cou...

This is a pilot's eye view of runway 14, branson, missouri, where the pilots were supposed to land. this is runway 12 at clark airport. also called trainee county airport, seven miles away, where they actually landed. >> one runway at 140 and one runway at 120 is 20 degrees difference in the direction that those runways are pointing. >> pretty close. >> very close. >> that's one possible explanation for why that 737 landed at the wrong airport, according to this man. he's a longtime pilot and president of a company that builds software for flight simulators. at the leesburg executive airport i...

>> has that changed much? >> not that much. they now changed the hours. they are better requirements, better training. >> but i assume a pilot and copilot for a u.p.s. jumbo jet, they get paid decent salaries. >> they do, much more than the commuter planes and probably much more proficient, with hundreds of thousands in flight simulators, and they've flown many, many miles. >> we're standing by for this press conversation. what's the most important thing you want to hear? >> essentially that they can recover the black boxes, that's number one. they have the air traffic control tapes. they know...