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Some path to get this aircraft down to a point where it code is appear. they don't say who they say it doesn't necessarily mean emergency. >> another question. how long can this plane fly at 12,000 feet because we know the last ping picked up by satellite happened what five or six hours later. >> right. right. that's another key factor to hang on to. remember this plane if it was an emergency still flu for a very long time apparently. so mitchell any idea how long they could fly 12,000 with the fuel load? >> fuel load that they had you might cut the range as much as half. >> reporter: there ar...

Quickly determines he has no choice but to ditch in the pacific. >> my mother mentioned that she didn't hear any yelling or screaming. she did hear a lot of praying in different languages. the mood was very, very serious. >> the pilot radios a nearby coast guard cutter for assistance. and a plan is formed. the stratocruiser will circle above the ship for the rest of the night, lightening its fuel load and waiting for daybreak. >> you want to be as light as you can because with less weight you can go slower. fly more slowly. so the impact on the water is going to be lessened. but also you want ...

We can't see right now. all this week, cnn's martin savidge has been trying to give us perspective, reporting from inside a 777 flight simulator. he joins us again tonight with flight instructor mitchell casada. i understand this plane can fly 16 to 18 hours on a full tank, but it was heading to beijing and only had about seven hours of fuel. so could it have reached the area where this debris was found? >> reporter: that's the same question had. that's why early today we programmed everything that we knew of flight 370. seven-hour fuel load and we pointed it south. a number of factors we coul...

Casada. i understand this plane can fly 16 to 18 hours on a full tank, but it was heading to beijing and only had about seven hours of fuel. so could it have reached the area where this debris was found? >> reporter: that's the same question had. that's why early today we programmed everything that we knew of flight 370. seven-hour fuel load and we pointed it south. a number of factors we couldn't account for. headwind on the route, what altitude they may have flown at simply not known. running that we found the plane easily could have made the region where this debris has been discovered. in ...

Like anything to you that could be flight 370? >> i have, jon, and from the angle i'm looking at it, sometimes it looks like a container, sometime like ulgsd -- you said earlier, it could be a stabilizer on its side. various angles it could look like a piece of aircraft. jon: authorities took a look of this part of the ocean because they've done a refined analysis, i guess you would say, of the potential track. now they know a bit more about the potential flight track of this plane and based on the fuel load and the flight track that it was last seen maintaining, this is the general area of oc...