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Regular route flight that trip would be saved in the flight management computer as a code and then they fly that trip every time they fly that flight. >> mm-hmm. and same reckoning of this? because i'm trying to give every benefit of the doubt to the pilots that we can until the facts dictate otherwise. this does line up like a bad fact. this isn't routinely and not ne people? >> i don't see any reason they would do that unless they had -- perhaps a specific reason, they had to have an alternate, they were running low on fuel, something like that, then they might say, look, i want to have this...

You can go back and retrieve this flight and see how it flew, what flew, and look at it without your hands on the wheel and see what it is that you did before. that does get stored. >> like any other data on hard drive. jay, in terms of using a simulator, how often do people delete, why do they delete? is there a needle leet? >> there is no need to defeel leath it. the files are saved when you intentionally save them. so, if they had files that they want toddle leet, they would have saved those files first. if they were just in a casual flight, just for entertainment or for practice, that flig...

Might have been practiced here. we have faa inspector mr. david suocie and jay laboeuf in the new day studio. have been pract. we have faa inspector mr. david suocie and jay laboeuf in the new day studio. >> we are cruising along. >> what are you flying now? >> we have the cockpit up, a 777, all the flight information, air speed, horizon, altitude, and we have here the center console, carrying the flight management computer and this is where the pilots would enter all of the waypoints for the trip that they would be flying. >> david hurricane is the obvious -- this is something that would be v...

>> any information would help. last thing that's important to do here, the big disclosure from officials in malaysia, not necessarily new information but new information they figured sought that 12 minutes before the co-pilot said "all right, good night" they inputted data for this additional waypoint. is that something that would be done and not communicated ordinarily, jay? >> well, typically, the flight management computer would be loaded with the complete trip from start to finish. and so for them to interfere with that, two have to go in and interrupt the program that had been loaded and ...