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He says the priority very clearly for him and for the airline at the moment is to look after and to be with and to give information to when they get it to the families of the passengers and crew on board that flight. he's not speculating at all at the moment as to what may or may not have happened. he's asked a lot of questions about weather, about pilot experience, this is all in the realm of speculation, until the investigation gets under way they're obviously cooperating fully with that as you can imagine, the last 18 hours or so has been an absolute nightmare for the families of the passen...

Looking at the erratic flate path of malaysia flight 370, that scenario seems unlikely. but we may never know for sure. cnn. >> i want to give you the headlines at this hour on the mystery of flight 370. investigators in malaysia are continuing their hard look at the two men in the cockpit when that missing 777 took off. the captain who had a flight simulator in his home and the co-pilot. police have sexed both men's homes. no word on what was found. also today, malaysian official believe the plane could have been on the ground when it last made satellite contact. that means someone would have...

What they were doing. >> that's what i wanted to ask you. being able to turn the systems off. and i know there are some redundancies. could this have been a hijacking? no matter who did it, they need to have real pilot experience? >> yes, and another clue, they were -- a seasoned pilot is not going to be wobbling around between different altitudes. so, what would they be doing down there? this gets curiouser and curiouser. the range pointed out by jim is staggering. could be from north australia to the himalayas. why would anyone do this? >> a lot of people are thinking

Pilot experience is one part of the investigation. how rare is it that you have one guy being trained for the first time landing in san francisco with that particular plane and then the other guy first time in the instructor role? >> reporter: the bottom line is here all the issues surrounding the pilots level of experience is going to be extremely critical to this case. were they communicating properly in the cockpit. another main focus seems to be on the automated flight equipment used to control the plane's speed. was it functioning properly. did the two pilots talk about it. all that will ...

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