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Welcome back to "early start," everyone. this is our breaking news coverage the search. the continued search for flight 370. still no sign of debris in the southern indian ocean. and jets and ships from six nations now scouring a massive search area for this missing plane. the newest and perhaps most compelling theory about what may have happened to the jetliner is centering on this so-called zombie theory. let's take you into the flight simulator where cnn's martin savidge explores one scenario with anderson cooper. >> those planes would begin with maybe some kind of an alarm that would go of...

Enough to mobilize a lot of assets to the area to continue the search. but what exactly happens to a plane when it hits the water? there are so many different ways it can. the flight that went into the hudson river landed safely and the passengers all got out. sully sullenberger was a hero because of it. is that possibly what could have happened here? martin savidge and our pilot mitchell join me inside the boeing 777 simulator. martin, a lot of conversation has been going today towards how to ditch an aircraft in water. if you're in crisis and have no communications, can you bring a plane dow...

Marty, said in the earlier block there is a possibility of a fire, an incapacitation of the pilots and passengers and this plane just flew as a ghost flight until it ran out of gas. mitchell, what happens when a plane runs out of gas? how would it end up in the water? would it land nose down? would it come down in any particular way? take me through it. >> it's profile. once you run out of gas the profile of the airplane is going to be very gentle. it's not going to be any dramatic nose down or turning or anything. it's just going to be a very gentle gradual decent. very similar to what you wo...

Not just the airplane but electronics in general. you'd almost have to be electronics engineer to disable acars. you could reduce functions, simplify functions, get it back to raw data. you couldn't completely shut it down unless you had -- almost to the point of knowing how it's designed. >> that's why investigators don't know whether somebody had the sophistication and disabled it or something else was going on in the plane that took out the system. fair assumption? >> yes, that's a fair assumption. the latter seems a lot less likely. it's so sophisticated, so many backups. it's designed to ...