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I'm really fascinated, and we talked about it at the top of the program, this partial attempt at a hand shake. let's zero in a little bit more what could have possibly caused that. do you believe the idea that perhaps as the plane went into the water, it might have caused a surge that would have attempted this partial hand shake, anything to that? >> surge is a wide term, but when i think of a surge, you're talking about an electrical supply difference, which in my mind wouldn't have caused that but what would have is the input, something being input into it. so yeah, i think that's highly pro...

You pass out, passengers pass out. airplane's got plenty of fuel. it's on a predemmtermined cours. it will now fly for hours until eventually it runs out of fuel. that's the scenario. we don't know if it really happened that way. many speculate it could have. >> miles o'brien, the plane did make several turns. so would that be possible under an auto pilot scenario? >> you would have to put in the way-points for those turns. that given the scenario you just laid out is highly unlikely. what that pilot would have done is exactly what marty and his friend -- i'm sorry spacing on his name -- >> mi...

They watched the engines flame out on both sides and watched it go into the mountainside. that was on autopilot that. is an example of what would have happened. >> martin savidge, if a plane runs out of fuel, as is believed happened here, how does a plane this size enter the water? are there different scenarios? is it a glide down? >> reporter: these are things we've been trying to simulate. put it into neutral, if you will, and we'll show you. we can't shut the engines off, the simulator doesn't allow that. but we have tried this, put the engines in neutral, take the plane off of autopilot an...

But it took putting the plane back together, all 2 million pieces of it, to figure that out. bottom line, the so-called black boxes aren't perfect. and they're not black, either. they're usually orange. on an airplane they're tucked inside an insulated case and surrounded by stainless steel. they're built to withstand temperatures as high as 2,000 degrees fahrenheit and catastrophic impact. after twa flight 800 went down in july 1996, just 12 minutes after takeoff from new york's jfk airport, the plane's black boxes were recovered but they offered little. >> both the voice recorder and the dat...

Connect again at 8:19. this would suggest the plane stayed in the air longer, potentially making already massive search area even larger. that's the significance. the other breaking news, a high tech navy sense or for picking up pings from the plane's black boxes landed in perth a short time ago but will take several sailing days to get into position and can't do its job until the debris field itself is located. >> i heard it described earlier today we're not trying to find the needle in the haystack trying to find the haystack. we're trying to find the farm the haystack's on right now. >> tha...