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All these various countries should have been brought in in the first place. because that was the highest probability of finding anything. now, as the days pass, i'm not very confident that they're going to find what we're looking for. >> greg, the reality is that at this point, this is a search story, i would think. and let's give people some indication of the scope of the search. we tried to do it yesterday. let's reinforce that today. is it not accurate to say that the search operation being conducted for this plane basically similar to planes and ships trying to find a single plane parked u...

Is possible has been squeezed out. >> okay. >> because as soon as the acars were turned off, the data part. the box, itself, wasn't turned off. that's how we got the ping, six hours of pings. the electronic box was still active. it was just the data downburst. once we lost that, we lost the transponder. the airplane went out of radar coverage and we don't have eyes in sky, the satellite data to track this airplane. now it's anyone's guess and we will not get any more data. if the airplane is found and we have a cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder, it may shed light, but the cockpit...

>> that's correct, reverend. the big thing here is that one of the pilots could have programmed both flight plans, and then when the other pilot returned to the cockpit and asked, is it ready to go? yes, we've got the flight plans programmed in. they'll put it up on the primary flight displays, see that the flight plan's been programmed in, we're good to go. >> all right. we're looking at different angles throughout this hour the show today. and just i'll end this part of this new segment, because we have other big news to get to with new information from malaysian officials. according to mala...

Would want too go in there and fly a simulator after they've just flown for eight hours. >> that's what i'm wondering. >> it's apparent this pilot was just immersed in flying in some way, shape or form. >> greg, if in a simulator that sophisticated, what are the chances we can delete the computer files? >> i'm not an expert but the forensic guys who do the work will probably get some of those deleted files, in not all of them. >> authorities are still looking into when they were deleted. they are making no connections right now. >> okay. clearly if he has deleted files, he might have just been...

Flight simulator. the question is when it was deleted, why it was deleted, if it was deleted right before the flight as if it was something premeditated. greg feith with the national transportation safety board, is this information notable to you on a scale of one to ten? can you hone in on this and tell us how important it is. >> i think right now it's a 7 to 8 only because these fly simulators, especially as elaborate as the captain's flight simulator, can enable him to go out and log flights. they'll fly around, record that information into a file so that you can play it back and typically ...