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Thailand and china there is no going under those radars. >> this batteries on board, catching fiemplt i will give this to jeff wise. heres what lori say. she says huge question, mark for me is the lithium batteries on board. could that be a cause of explosion and crash, huge question mark for me. could that be the cause? jeff wise? >> theoretically that could be the cause. fires can arise from a number of causes have havent been any indication cans. theres no evidence for a fire. there werent an...

All right good night. that doesnt sound like someone who is struggling with fire or some other malfunction would say. theres no indication of panic or concern. the fact that theres no clear motive doesnt -- its not positive either way. so the absence of any evidence for catastrophic fail yier, you also have to take into consideration the safety of the 777. its a robust, well-built platform. all modern aircraft are so redundant that they dont spontaneously come bust. these -- were talking about a...

France 447, we knew where it crashed, the transponder was on, the acars was on, but the black box wasnt found for two years. remember, we have the gps on the black boxes that last for about 30 days. the way these were found was by robots. >> how many square miles last time, very small? >> far smaller than 600,000 square miles. they found the debris field, and it led them to the black boxes. that will be key once we find the haystack, but we have to find it. thats what were trying to do. >> great...

Decompression. one is with a maintenance crew forget to turn back on the automatic pressurization. another is from a crack in the fuselage. its possible. at that point, you would assume if everyone else perished, except for the pilot, presumably there was lack of control surfaces, too. otherwise he would have taken the plane home and delivered the loved ones though perished back to the airport. there must have been something with lack of control of the plane. >> this is about electrical control ...

Makes it sound like theyre incriminating but they arent. lets not forget that. and really, frankly, nothing can be ruled out now. most every scenario you come up with you can run it through. some of the more plausible than others. frankly, the crew being responsible for this is a very plausible scenario but one of many that are still possible. >> les abend, you are the pilot here. you flew 777s. paint for me a picture where if the pilot, as some people suspect, took this plane off for whatever r...

The plane home and delivered the loved ones back to an airport, though perished. so there must have been something else. >> this is about an electrical system. john cook asks this, he says, what is the probability that an electrical issue rendered the acars and oxygen systems inoperable. geoffrey, what about that? >> jeffrey wise? >> no, geoffrey thomas. geoffrey thomas? >> sorry, okay. beg your pardon. look, electrical problem, youve got power from the engines, we know that, so you do have elec...

Crashed, the transponder was on, the acars was on, but the black box wasnt found for two years. remember, we have the gps on the black boxes that last for about 30 days. the way these were found was by robots. >> how many square miles last time, very small? >> far smaller than 600,000 square miles. they found the debris field, and it led them to the black boxes. that will be key once we find the haystack, but we have to find it. thats what were trying to do. >> great report. really appreciate it...

At, once its found by the search area, debris on the surface, they find the needle. its hard. we know from air france 447 the haystack found straightaway through transponder and acars, needle in terms of black boxes it took two years to find those. there are serious constraints with technology. this ping in the area, down to 20,000 feet and potentially depths of 23,000 feet. so theres discrepancies there. these things will be key. these are whether or not found debris field 447. >> many more hur...

Provides the classic aero satellite system. that is the interface between the jet and the acars. that provides position, altitude heading and speed. the acars was switched off. what we know about is these pings. yesterday were talking about these handshakes. they come in the form of a microwave. its all about doppler shift. >> explain this. >> what we can say is if the plane is moving away from the inmarsat satellite, you get this elongated wave. if its moving toward the satellite, you get this ...

Airplane, were scouring as they have been with planes and search vehicles of every type, nothing so far. why make the conclusion that -- the definitive conclusion it went down here? >> yeah, again, i dont think you can. i think its the most likely explanation. and im with michael on the time line issues, because theres no real way to tell who did what when if acars was off. i dont know where theyre getting all that information from. >> even what hes talking about in terms of the waves, the diffe...