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Whatever, fumes. everybody is now unconscious, but because the plane is on a new heading and because it's on automatic pilot and it's got six hours of fuel, it will fly and fly and fly until eventually it runs out of fuel, the engines turn off and then the plane begins a descent into the ocean. now it's not clear if that descent would be dramatic or whether it would be gradual. there are a number of features on this airplane to make it gradual. either way, without human control, once it gets to the water, it is likely to have a catastrophic ending. that is the ghost plane theory. we're not sur...

New debris sightings and a more focused search area still haven't answered a key question about the missing jet liner. why did it fly for hours and hours to one of the most remote areas on earth. cnn's martin savidge plays out a haunting scenario from inside a boeing 777 flight simulator. >> reporter: morning, carol. it's called the zombie plane or it's called the ghost plane or the plane without a brain. whatever you call it, it is an aircraft that is now no longer in human control. here's a scenario in which it can happen. the plane would have reached cruising altitude. everything seems norm...

Then the plane had to go back up to optimum altitude of 35,000 feet. how would you take the plane back up from 12,000 feet to say 35,000 feet. you would have to do it manually by pulling back or have to reset the auto pilot? >> yes, and if you reset the auto pilot, there's electrical power in the airplane. >> and you're going to burn fuel to climb back up. >> if this report is true, and this is a source telling cnn, it hasn't been officially confirmed, if the plane did go down at 12,000 and went back up to a cruising altitude, which it would have had to in order to have gone as far as it did, ...

Malaysian site over the straits of malacca and we know nothing else about it until today. >> there is a source that the plane at one point flew at some 12,000 feet. >> yes. after the turn, immediately after the turn, the plane is said to have descended to 12,000 feet and one implication being so the pilot could fly back along the route without getting in the way of danger of other air traffic that would be at normal altitude. >> that's based on a source that has not confirmed. >> if that is true, the plane had to go back up to maximum altitude to get the range of what we are told today. he wou...

Do you share mary's point of view that in light of this new information about the sequencing that it's unlikely that you have an indication that the piles did this intentionally? >> i keep coming back to the fact that the aircraft changed course for some reason. it didn't apparently go wildly out of control. it changed course. now, why did it change course? it seems to be under human control. now, the fact that nobody telegraphed those actions ahead of time doesn't change anything. i'm just hesitant to now think that we have solid facts and we should go in one direction and disregard all other...