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You because you both are professional pilots, you both are experienced, you both have been at the helm of these types of jet liners. we wanted to find out where you sit on some of these things. so colonel field, let's start with you. what is your take, that it was someone or something that doomed thisly if the? >> well, i haven't ruled out mechanical failure of some sort entirely but that's only about 10%. i think most of the evidence that we can -- we can believe right now, and there's a plethora of speculation out everywhere, is that this airplane was commandeered by the -- by the pilots and...

Them shifting the search zone. the australians are driving that certainly in their waters near the indian ocean, they are moving it more southwestsome this about coordinating data from what they heard about the thai radar exposure or how do we explain it? >> well, let's hope that's what it s hope they have been able to continue the smooth the data and get better data points. the first set of points was literally a fourth of the globe. now they have refined it, hopefully that it's that and we have -- still haven't been told exactly what was or what wasn't on the various data points and the comp...

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...

Maine up there a half an inch of rain, see it throughout the day, even through tonight. again, your last day, guys, hanging on tight. keep in mind the winds, these guys gusting up, talking about midwest and eventually in through tomorrow, start to see some of the strong winds but one day, we can handle this, right? one day, tomorrow, looks so good. we can all smile. except for you. grimace. >> that's right r >> be just like a straight-line smile. as good as you get. >> thanks. >> sure. take a break on "new day." when we come back, more breaking coverage of the disappearance of play 370. focu...

>> 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 ...