it would run out of fuel. but does that say it was a decompression with the crew unconscious? maybe not because, i mean, it took these turns, all these odd turns before it went in a long, straight line before running out of fuel. but that does tell us something about you ve seen so many you ve covered so many airline crashes and disasters over your long career sadly. yeah, sadly. it s sort of macob work. does this stand out? i mean, it seems to have captivated everyone s imagination partly because it so defies any of the normal explanatory frameworks. oh, yeah, just bizarre, the whole scenario. first of all, the fact we re 13 days out now and know so little of any value in determining what happened. the fact you mentioned earlier, the remoteness of where all this is happening. this is really unprecedented. you know, it s a modern day all those decades after. is there precedent in your
maybe not because, i mean, it took these turns, all these odd turns before it went in a long, straight line before running out of fuel. but that does tell us something about you ve seen so many you ve covered so many airline crashes and disasters over your long career sadly. yeah, sadly. it s sort of macob work. does this stand out? i mean, it seems to have captivated everyone s imagination partly because it so defies any of the normal explanatory frameworks. oh, yeah, just bizarre, the whole scenario. first of all, the fact we re 13 days out now and know so little of any value in determining what happened. the fact you mentioned earlier, the remoteness of where all this is happening. this is really unprecedented. you know, it s a modern day all those decades after. is there precedent in your career of times when crashes have happened and there s been a whole set of theories offered
turns before it went in a long, straight line before running out of fuel. but that does tell us something about you ve seen so many you ve covered so many airline crashes and disasters over your long career sadly. yeah, sadly. it s sort of macob work. does this stand out? i mean, it seems to have captivated everyone s imagination partly because it so defies any of the normal explanatory frameworks. oh, yeah, just bizarre, the whole scenario. first of all, the fact we re 13 days out now and know so little of any value in determining what happened. the fact you mentioned earlier, the remoteness of where all this is happening. this is really unprecedented. you know, it s a modern day all those decades after. is there precedent in your career of times when crashes have happened and there s been a whole set of theories offered and, you know, there s maybe six or seven theories people are
in charge of this investigation. then comes the defense minister acting transport minister. he s in charge of the investigation. just yesterday we listened to the prime minister. he made it very clear, i m the one. you know, everybody is in charge. right. there s competing roles to play here. it s just a problem. we admit it. that leads me perfectly to barbara. barbara, the u.s. government, i mean, has the u.s. government been involved, as involved as they want to be? would they have handled this, you think, differently, had they been in charge from the very beginning? well, look, if this happened in u.s. airspace or with u.s. airliner in the united states, the federal aviation administration, the national transportation safety board, the fbi, all of these agencies have decades of experience in investigating airline crashes. i don t think you can really i mean, we wouldn t really necessarily compare the u.s. or any of the major western countries to some other areas because th
cnn learned that they were stored in the cargo hold. why is that significant? they have been blamed as a cause of previous airline crashes. this piece of the puzzle is now being examined by investigators and of course even if the batteries being carried on the plane caused a fire, this doesn t explain other anomalies we have been talking about that have been discussed. why the plane may have changed course. an explosive report suggesting that this plane was deliberately put down. we know that the transponder on the plane stopped sending information 14 minutes after the data transmission stopped. martin savage is live in a simulator. it is fascinating watching you. you are flying the exact route of flight 370 on the simulator, correct? right. we took off from kuala lumpur