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Why was the transponder, that transmits vital information to the ground turned off? our martin savidge is in a flight simulator that s in mississauga. just outside of toronto. you have it set up for about a minute before its last known point of contact. a little less than that. hello, john and micayla. let me show you where we are exactly b-today, the triangle here is us, the airplane. b-todd, is a reference point in the sky. it was the last known location in which there was an official report from the aircraft. we are just about passing over it now. mitchell casada is the pilot of this flight. we set this all up to be identical from everything we knew from flight 370. in other words, we took off from kuala lumpur. we have been flying for over 45 ....
But now that the u.s. is involved in taking a more active role, we are going to see stronger, more tangible evidence. the information we have is just so ambiguous and complex and confusing. that s the issue. we are following all these leads but it can be mechanical but it can be terrorism. i think, as we re seeing the days progress, it is leaning more toward some type of human, nefarious ac. i think that s the agenda or the angle everyone is looking toward. evy, thank you so much for your insight. i appreciate it. our martin vsavidge is insie a flight simulator. let s check back from with him. hi, martin. reporter: this is us, the triangle, 35,000 feet, night, over the south china sea. what we re coming up on is b-todd. this is the point of the last known reference for flight 370. we re almost there. it s a stationery and gifts store. ....
Navigation. it is similar to the gps in your car but a lot more complicated. we are coming up on igary, a checkpoint in the sky at which this aircraft will turn and make a slight turn to the right. b todd is the last point where they were seen. it was right about the handover from malaysian air space into vietnamese air space. it is a crucial time, no the a time when a pilot or co-pilot would say, go use the bathroom. any time you are crossing into another country s air space, you have to check in. you have to check in and say who you are, your intentions, your altitude, your air speed so that they would know and they are on the program, with the program. i asked you, the last words ....
At 2:40, the plane lost contact with air traffic control. that s about all we know. so, you are on board this sim mu lay tore and you have taken off from kuala lumpur. where are you now? we just reached a cruising altitude of 35,000 feet. while you were in commercial break would have been the time i would have gotten on the address system and told everybody, hey, you can, if you want, unfasten your seat belts, get up and walk around the cabin. that would have been announced. the plane is basically now in automatic pilot mode and let me show you this. this is basically your it may have gait may have gags navigat system. see this one that says b todd, ....