Altitude Variation News Today

Lets get straight to cnns richard quest. richard, what more are we learning? >> reporter: well, fredricka, this was the first indication of a connection, similarity, coincidence, whatever we want to say. theyve started reading out the data from the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder. its being done by the b.e.a., which is the french regulator. extremely experienced. according now to the ethiopian transport minister, there were certain similarities between lyon air back in octobe...

I think that the measures that we take have certainly improved and the measures taken now -- >> theyre not taken universally, though. >> no, theyre not and thats the reason that foreign airports are vulnerable. not to much our own airports as it is foreign airports from which planes originate and come to this country, and if somebody puts a bomb on an airplane, it can either be timed or set to altitude variation such that it is set to go off at a particularly vulnerable time. >> what do you -- l...

Means. >> reporter: this is the first time weve been told of an altitude variation of the aircraft. the many ply indications are that the aircraft was taken down an altitude under control and taken back up under control. what were told remember the aircraft took the left turn off the original flight to beijing and flies back over the malaysian peninsula, back over the malacca straits and then lost from military radar after dipping down and reappears on military radar 120 nautical miles northwest...