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Martin savidge. he is in a 777 flight simulator. martin, every night we've asked you to take a look at a scenario in this flight simulator and answer a couple of questions for us. tonight, we would like to look at this theory about a zombie plane flying on after the flew and passengers were unconscious or dead. this says, if the theory is true, what would the condition of the passengers be? would they have been overcome -- be overcome by fumes as well? martin, can you take a look at that for us and report back a little bit in the show? >> reporter: we absolutely will. we've been planning it ou...

Any sign of that, pick it up? 777. >> you know, that's pretty simple answer and part of the problem here. radar is ground-based so radar can only see 50, a hundred, maybe 200 miles off shore from wherever it is located on land. this debris field is 1,500 miles offshore. no way a plane flying in that area could be tracked by radar. the only reason that we think the plane was in that area was because of this satellite communication that existed between its black box and the satellite itself. so, no, radar would be of no help here. but conversely, in the previous conversation, one of the reasons ...

For us in bangkok. david, this is significant at very least. >> yes, that's right. we haven't had any firm leads like this for a long, long time. a lot of rumors, a lot of searching, but nothing like this. and the malaysian authorities, they're saying, they can confirm there has been a new lead. but they're being very, very cautious at this time. saying they want to have it verified. the australians are trying to verify it at this time. they have a plane flying over. we understand bad visibility. more planes are going and also ships. we understand they're also asking for help already. we know ...

For us in bangkok. david, this is significant at very least. >> yes, that's right. we haven't had any firm leads like this for a long, long time. a lot of rumors, a lot of searching, but nothing like this. and the malaysian authorities, they're saying, they can confirm there has been a new lead. but they're being very, very cautious at this time. saying they want to have it verified. the australians are trying to verify it at this time. they have a plane flying over. we understand bad visibility. more planes are going and also ships. we understand they're also asking for help already. we know ...

For us in bangkok. david, this is significant at very least. >> yes, that's right. we haven't had any firm leads like this for a long, long time. a lot of rumors, a lot of searching, but nothing like this. and the malaysian authorities, they're saying, they can confirm there has been a new lead. but they're being very, very cautious at this time. saying they want to have it verified. the australians are trying to verify it at this time. they have a plane flying over. we understand bad visibility. more planes are going and also ships. we understand they're also asking for help already. we know ...