and we went back to her. did mr. hakes ever ask you to make up an alibi for him or to lie to the police? she said no, that he came here after work that night, he stayed all night. hakes girlfriend told police he arrived there around 9:45 p.m., but if he left the restaurant at 9:00 p.m. and his girlfriend lived only 15 minutes away, there was a 30-minute period he couldn t account for. then a background check revealed a startling piece of information. michael hakes had been convicted of rape and attempted murder in arizona and served ten years in the arizona state prison for that. and he had been out of prison for about one year as of that time. hakes employers at the restaurant didn t know he was a registered sex offender, and apparently neither did michele harris. we were convinced right away that something untoward had happened.
programm programmed everything that we knew of flight 370, seven-hour fuel load and pointed it south. a number of factors we couldn t account for. headwind on the route, what altitude they may have flown at simply not known. running that we found the plane easily could have made the region where this debris has been discovered. in fact might have been able to go a little bit further. but eventually of course the engines just quit. it just stops. they do. they just run out of gas and the airplane would start a gentle e descent toward the ocean floor. when it runs out of fuel does it continue on a gradual glide? if it did in fact crash into the ocean how would that have happened? this was a question i was talking to mitchell about before we came to air. assuming do both engines quit at the same time? or is it possible one keeps going and the other one sputters
we can t see right now. all this week, cnn s martin savidge has been trying to give us perspective, reporting from inside a 777 flight simulator. he joins us again tonight with flight instructor mitchell casada. i understand this plane can fly 16 to 18 hours on a full tank, but it was heading to beijing and only had about seven hours of fuel. so could it have reached the area where this debris was found? reporter: that s the same question had. that s why early today we programmed everything that we knew of flight 370. seven-hour fuel load and we pointed it south. a number of factors we couldn t account for. headwind on the route, what altitude they may have flown at simply not known. running that we found the plane easily could have made the region where this debris has been discovered. in fact might have been able to go a little bit further. but eventually of course the
casada. i understand this plane can fly 16 to 18 hours on a full tank, but it was heading to beijing and only had about seven hours of fuel. so could it have reached the area where this debris was found? reporter: that s the same question had. that s why early today we programmed everything that we knew of flight 370. seven-hour fuel load and we pointed it south. a number of factors we couldn t account for. headwind on the route, what altitude they may have flown at simply not known. running that we found the plane easily could have made the region where this debris has been discovered. in fact might have been able to go a little bit further. but eventually of course the engines just quit. it just stops. they do. they just run out of gas and the airplane would start a gentle