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Les, you flied a 777. you talked a lot about this e & e compartment. do you think it could have been compromised on mh-370? >> anything can be on the table. but in order to get into that compartment from the cabin, youve got to disrupt cabin service, youve got to lift up a rug, it goes on and on. so somebodys going to notice this. and if you get in from outside the airplane the access is different. somebody may have noticed. i know malaysia may have some lax security procedures but there are pro...

With all of these theories -- we have seen them all. we have discussed them all. were discussing them here. is there anything were going to see wash up in the ocean, like we have seen this piece of debris thats going to get us these answers or does it all still come back to needing that flight data recorder? >> yes, theres a very important piece and thats the ray dome of the aircraft the front of the aircraft, which is also honey comb similar in texture and size and thickness to this piece that ...

And all of that is separate from the a&e compartment. that would be isolated to that part of the aircraft. >> mary schiavo and david suchie, thank you both. even if crews recovered debris from flight 370, theres one question remaining, did this crew deliberately divert the plane? up next, friends and family defend the captain. plus, another earthquake jolt, the los angeles area. this is the second one in just weeks. we have details on this coming up. are you still sleeping? just wanted to ch...

Fire but hydrochloric acid and the sulphuric acid in vapor form still continue to exude. if those batteries were stored in the front id be looking for evidence of that. those two gasses together could be deadly. >> in supplement to what david is saying, if it got into the e and e compartment, lower compartment that has all the avionics and so forth, that doesnt have halon to it. it has a system that automatically -- if it senses smoke it will reverse the air flow. now if the pilots put on their ...

If the halon extinguishes the fire but hydrochloric acid and the sulphuric acid in vapor form still continue to exude. if those batteries were stored in the front id be looking for evidence of that. those two gasses together could be deadly. >> in supplement to what david is saying, if it got into the e and e compartment, lower compartment that has all the avionics and so forth, that doesnt have halon to it. it has a system that automatically -- if it senses smoke it will reverse the air flow. n...

Flight 370, the series about what happened or what could have happened to this jet ranged from the logical to the absolutely outlandish. whoever or whatever turned off flight 370s tracking system shortly after takeoff may be the key to solving this mystery. just how it tough is it to do that? joining me is cnns aviation correspondent, richard west, joined by a 777 captain with 18,000 hours in the cockpit. captain, i wanted to ask you, i heard you on our morning show "new day," suggest there is t...

Somebody could have actually gone into the e and e compartment. electronics compartment below the pilots and start turning things off. >> where is that? >> i dont know. im not really sure. >> give us a sense for non-pilots. you say its below the cockpit. how do you get there? where is it. >> on some large transport aircraft there is actually a little hatch there that maintenance uses to get into this compartment and work with the black boxes. thats where all the black boxes are underneath inside...

The e and e compartment, which is generally somewhere in the vicinity of the cockpit itself, that could disrupt a lot of things all at one time and electrical fires are pretty spooky. there are a few situations where they crash and once it starts it moves very rapidly. it could definitely take everything off the line. >> we had the former chief of staff of the federal aviation administration on the show yesterday and he said one possibility that hasnt really been pursued by investigators as much...