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In the cockpit, the captain and first officer make their final preparations. >> okay. oxygen. check. instruments. check. >> in a 777 simulator, commercial pilot mitchell casado shows cnn the preflight prep. >> it's going into this system here. >> the pilot loads the route, programming the aircraft to fly to its destination. >> and it's essentially step-by-step going to take this plane from kuala lumpur all the way to beijing. >> the plane is ready. before taking off, paul weeks sends a message home. >> the last line was, this counts as one day, so that means it's only 27 days until i see you a...

Illegal passports. in the cockpit the captain and first officer make the final preparations. >> oxygen, check. instruments, check. >> reporter: in the sim yu ulat pilot mitchell casado shows martin savidge the route. and programming the simulator how to fly to the destination. >> so it will take this plane essentially from kuala lumpur to beijing. >> reporter: and the plane is ready, and before taking off, paul weeks sends a message home. >> the last line says that this counts as one day, so it means that it is only 27 days until i see you all again. >> reporter: around 12:30 a.m., malaysian a...

Learn more at first5california.com/parents welcome back. we're tracking breaking news tonight. a source close to the investigation of malaysia airlines flight 370 tells cnn according to military radar records, the plane made a sharp turn and dropped from 35,000 feet to 12,000 feet. let's see what that drop in altitude would look like. we want to go to martin savidge in a 777 flight simulator with flight trainer mitchell casado. a turn to 12,000 feet into a busy air corridor, i mean, what would that be like? i'm sure people would notice that. >> reporter: yeah, it surrounds dramatic. but we s...

Let's take that and go to martin savage with the flight instructor mitchell casado. you two have programmed the cockpit to fly over the indian ocean near this site of possible debris. could the plane have made it that far? >> that was the first test we did. we wanted to load the plane with the fuel they think they had. about seven hours worth and point it south. we showed earlier that this plane -- there is a lot of things we don't know, but this plane could easily have made it and had time to spare and gone further. we are right now over the southern indian ocean and the simulator, i can show...

Distance it could glide, yes. >> 20 miles, 50 miles? >> it could be past 100 miles if you had enough altitude, yeah. >> so obviously that is -- you know, it's critical -- i mean, if that were the scenario would certainly answer the mystery of why the plane would be so far off course into such a remote area. but the landing of that plane whether it ended up in a scatter point or whether it ended up ditched whole, there are pluses and minuses to both of that in terms of the finding. martin savidge, great work. thank you, mitchell casado, again, you've been invaluable to us. there's a unique circ...