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Immediate. he was in the process of transferring to the boeing 727, and he lives with his parents and siblings, and is that telling you anything? >> no, it is normal. people of culture doley later so a 27-year-old living at a home is strictly irrelevant. what it does tell me, because i know the makeup of the crew that would have been on the flight. there would have been, and that cap pain was an extremely experien experienced captain. why? because the first officer was inexperienced on the 777. and he was just transitioning, and he had spent months in the simulator learning about the 777, and ...

That was 2008. this plane was 11 or 12 years old and presumably those problems had been fixed. a problem with frozen fuel injection into the rolls royce engine in heathrow and reported that the wing tip had been repaired. from a physical structure position, this plane is as solid as it gets. >> rich, what do we know about the actually pilot, the lead pilot of the plane? i take it that this pilot posted videos of a flight simulator he actually had in his home? >> yes, captain shah is again very experienced captain, training captain, senior captain at malaysia airlines. he absolutely loved flyin...

Operational control of the airplane. they didn't pay attention. that's what it looks like. but keep in mind, these were not people that had just found the airplane. landing at san francisco is not in weather like that is not particularly a difficult act. it's not like hong kong airport or something. but we had basically two cockpit crew or actually three pilots in that cockpit who just didn't pay attention. it looks like. and that's what really happened. and again, there were all professionals but something fell through. >> well, well but you say they didn't pay attention. i mean this is the m...

Plane in san francisco. in this exclusive video obtained by cnn, you can see the plane start to descend, it then appears to strike the seawall, loses control and crashes. >> he was also flying with a check captain or a training captain. there were two other crew members, another captain and first officer who were also flying. again, remember, this is a very long trans pacific flight, the four crew members are there for relief. >> as this animation shows. the wide body jet clipped the seawall which creates a barrier before the plane hit the runway. today firefighters described a chaotic, surrea...

Flying 747s according to the airline, had only limited experience flying a boeing 777. just 43 hours. he had never landed that type of plane in san francisco. in this exclusive video obtained by cnn, you can see the plane start to descend, it then appears to strike the seawall, loses control and crashes. >> he was also flying with a check captain or a training captain. there were two other crew members, another captain and first officer who were also flying. again, remember, this is a very long trans pacific flight, the four crew members are there for relief. >> as this animation shows. the wi...