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Another new development tonight malaysia airlines ceo acknowledging flight 370 was carrying a cargo of lithium ion batteries. he did not say how big the shipment was. that's very important, he did not clarify how big it was. these type of batteries have been implicated in other incidents. they are flammable. tonight cnn's martin savidge is back in a flight simulator along with mitchell cosado. i don't think you guys have ever left the simulator frankly. this is one aspect investigators are looking at, the possibility of a fire on board. there were these potentially flammable lithium batteries....

Flight to beijing, this aircraft would have flown straight for seven hours until it ran out of fuel and ran straight into the ocean. >> and martin, the pilots have said that the priority is to stabilize the plane and navigate before they communicate back with the ground. but would there not be any opportunity in there just to make it clear to those on the ground that something was happening or would there even with be an automatic signal to the ground that there is an emergency on board? >> well, both of those could have happened. the acars system if it was working is an alternate communicatio...

Welcome back. another new development tonight malaysia airlines ceo acknowledging flight 370 was carrying a cargo of lithium ion batteries. he did not say how big the shipment was. these type of batteries have been implicated in other incidents. they are flammable. tonight cnn's martin savidge is back in a flight simulator along with mitchell cosado. i don't think you guys have ever left the simulator framgnkly. this is one aspect investigators are looking at, the possibility of a fire on board. there were these potentially flammable lithium batteries. could a fire have started in the cargo ho...

Misstatements made by malaysia air and malaysian government authorities. we thought we had a timeline and then they will say something and back away from it. >> the facts are fight thing. we know the airplane took off, the a-car was shutdown, it turned off course, and the transponder was shutoff, beyond that it is just speculation. >> imagine there was a fire on the board that erupted after the pilot said good night. but in other fires, the pilots radioed to the ground they had a fire on board. same with value jet. >> that is one of the more

What would have happened? would it glide to a calm stop or when it runs out of fuel, did it end up crashing into the sea in a violent way? >> we know that aircrafts glide. we saw that in the miracle on the hudson with sully sullenberger. that could be on the co-pilot. if a progressive failure of all the electrical systems occurred. that's not unprecedented. in 1996, a value jet out of miami took off. they had a fire on board down in the cargo hold. that in the ntsb report showed a progressive failure of flight controls and electronics. this is not without precedence. it could have happened. if...