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That may explain what happened there. but those flight data recorders on the a-320 series are robust. theyre enhanced like data recorders with an increased number of parameters it monitored. so is the answers going to be there. >> ron, also part of this is as they go through the debris on the ground and, you know, theyre going to looking at where is what, right, and thats going to tell them potentially more of this story, that at this moment, we dont have all the details on. >> correct. if thats...

Investigation under way. the official investigation is the egyptians because the crash happened on their te tori and to a plane just taking off from an egyptian airport. investigation involve it is russians as a russian plane full of russian citizens that died, the french because the plane that crashed was an airbus a-320 so it was manufactured by a european company, head cansquartered in france and france the home of airbus is involved in the crash and that investigation also involves the germa...

Sudden deceleration and a very sudden -- happened at 28,000 feet. the speed here is what is particularly interesting here, richard. 404 knots is what it was traveling at. and then suddenly, within about 20 seconds, it went to 62 knots. so a very dramatic reduction in speed. and this plane, as you know, this an air bus a-321 which is really a work horse stretch version of the a-320 family thats flown around the world. on its way from sharm el sheikh to st. petersburg, russia, packed with we belie...

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Air, it wouldnt have just done a steady stairstep kind of climb down. it would have spiraled down, it would -- some other formation. but it wouldnt have just slowly descended, even though it was 4,000 feet a minute, thats a reasonable landing rate, if you will, but obviously, they had no place to land. and again, fortunately, we have the voice recorder, the french authorities and investigators will read that out, we may have more information on that tomorrow, and im sure theyll be looking very q...

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The entire time the 10 minutes after the co-pilot apparently according to the prosecutor those almost 10 minutes when he started bringing the plane down he did not say a single word in response to people trying to get into that cockpit. >> now, the a-320 has about a two hour loop on that voice recorder and they had taken off about 45 minutes or so earlier. so there should be a lot of information, a lot of chatter, a lot of conversation with air traffic controllers, a lot of conversation between ...