let me go to matthew wald.we're looking at pictures there which are this flight simulator that the pilot used. this is his that he had in his house. what is the significance of this? i understand it's not unprecedented that some pilots do indeed have simulators at home. but should we read anything more sinister into this? >> it means he likes his work. i should say that the people whom the copilot invited into the cockpit were not random. they were mostly pretty girls. that's not unheard of. pilots say that over water flights tend to get boring. i'm not sure what i can read into that. and i'm not sure we should be ready to slander the dead. there may be time to do it later but i'm not sure this is the time. >> but on that particular point -- and listen i accept what you say about the copilot inviting girls. thousand w though i was surprised you can do that anymore. i remember kids going into cockpits years ago. certainly post 9/11 i was amazed you could still do that and adults would go in and out. but let's mo

. >> matthew wald, thank you very much. stay with us. we go back to richard quest now.anymore of this stage from the airline? we know they're expected to have some kind of press conference but we're not quite sure when. >> we're waiting for the press conference. we wouldn't really expect to hear anymore until there's a certain element of certainty about what they can tell us. they've told us that the plane is missing, they've lost all contact. i completely agree with matt and with your other guests on this point. this is aviation code speak. this is the way they telegraph without actually saying that the plane has crashed. but because the 777-200, let's ignore the fact that this one's a dozen years old. it will still have modern communications, ultramodern communications. it will have had satellite. it will have had high frequency. it will have had data links. what we will be waiting to go see, of course, is did the airline receive automatic data from the plane when the incident happened? now, we know from 447 from air france, the first indication of what happened was b