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The plane is designed to be level and controlled and to make a slow descent and we are doing that. now, again, it's a simulator, so of course the engines, it's possible one would flame out after the other. mitchell believes that one engine would compensate automatically for that, right? >> yeah. we have a compensator in this aircraft, the 777. so yes. in an event of an emergency, i'm not sure if you had electrical power if that would happen. but any airplane, big or small, most of the time it's going to be designed to be stable. >> we're still descending and still level. it's possible that you...

The debris, then they can use it. >> david, what kind of formal pressure does the chinese government continue to try to exert against malaysia? >> there has been no love lost in this issue with the plane going down and the chinese, even the official chinese foreign ministry saying they want more evidence, as well. so through the days as this drags on, the chinese state media has put out very pointed editorials, at one point saying the malaysians at best showing a dereliction of duty. that's fed in in some way to this anger shown by the families. certainly, both through their actions in terms o...

Two additional turns. one sends them up to the northwest, the other one sends them down to the south to the area where we're searching. so in the heat of that battle as it were, would they have put in extra waypoints or stored waypoints? even those stored waypoints didn't make any sense or take him to an airport close by. unfortunately that's where this theory tend to fall down. there must have been something else going on. >> and richard, as you look at the map and you and i were looking at it, it does look as if there's an argument to be made that the plane was perhaps trying to avoid indone...

Back to a point you made earlier. it's also possible that even the impact of the plane could have caused this ping? >> yeah. it's hard to say for sure, of course. but there's any number of scenarios you could come up with that would sort of reactivate that box in some way to have it try to communicate with that satellite. whatever it was it was probably some sort of power surge. what would cause that? i think the first suspect would be the flame out of the engine. that's not going to be the exact spot necessarily where it went down. the other engine would be going for a little while but not mu...

Away. that's why the box has to be so big to accommodate all these possibilities. and yet even as it has that size, they try to cut it down a step at a time to increase the probability they'll find this plane. >> testimoom, thank you very mu. that's why this news tonight is so significant, because it does help try to focus the area of the search if in fact the attempt at a hand shake is when one of the last engines went out, or perhaps when it went into the water. we want to look at the tools that search teams can use in the indian ocean and will use. sonars, hydrophones, waterproof microphone...