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Recovery of the black box. so we can find out all the circumstances surrounding this downing. >> have the ukrainians asked for lethal assistance, weapons, ammunition, things between the nan lethal articles you mentioned? >> theyve requested a lot of material. some of it lethal in nature. but the focus has been and remains an the nonlethal side of assistance. >> they have asked for weapons -- >> im not going to detail everything on the -- >> all right. that was the pentagon press secretary john k...

The cockpit voice recorder only records 30 minutes back. youre never going to hear what happened seven hours, three hours, five hours. and the flight data recorder records two hours back. you may get information about what systems were working and not, but i dont think youre ever going to get hard evidence of a deliberate act, and i think the indication is going to be that it was some type of a mechanical failure. >> the question i have goes back to this, how everything. were talking with captai...

Of a electronic machine? >> i doubt it. the cockpit voice recorder only records 30 minutes back. youre never going to hear what happened seven hours, three hours, five hours. and the flight data recorder records two hours back. you may get information about what systems were working and not, but i dont think youre ever going to get hard evidence of a deliberate act, and i think the indication is going to be that it was some type of a mechanical failure. >> the question i have goes back to this, ...

That at that point the cockpit crew, whoever is left of the cockpit crew would be incapacitated or dead more likely if it was a decompression or heavy smoke or something like that, which also suggests that mercifully the passengers might have been dead for that whole stretch out over the indian ocean as well. the final end there, you were asking about that, and we dont know this, but the way a plane typically comes down when it runs out of fuel, and that must be what happened here is eventually ...

All we know now is how it began with the last words from the first officer a little after one income the morning march 8th and how it ended according to todays fateful verdict slipping into the south indian ocean a little after 8:00 a.m. that same morning. what did happen on that plane? what is there for relatives and the beloved to contemplate for the rest of their lives and for us who travel by air to imagine, to consider each time we head skyward? yes, kuala lumpur, we have a problem there is...

>> yes. >> some man-made decision was involved? >> it indicates right now, the evidence indicates that a knowledgeable individual had interaction with a computer and beyond that there was no communication. there was electrical power on the airplane, we know that. we know that there was electrical power on the airplane and available for several hours meaning greater than six. so put all of that together, it reduces the likelihood of a mechanical cataclysmic event on the airplane or an on board fi...

Time but they have to be packaged just right and there was an accident that killed two crew members when lithium batteries got -- >> i mean the passenger manifest. >> passenger manifest, youve got to go back and look at all those things again because as we fail to bring something really hard forward youve now got to go back and revisit things that were dismissed earlier. they said they looked at those people that got on with false passports and they cleared them more or less. chinese said they c...

With its 239 passengers and crew. we dont know if someone deliberately took this plane to its fate or whether a mechanical failure led to the horror or whether there was some combination of foul play and unforeseen horror. we dont know. today over the turbulent ocean southwest of australia planes looked and looked and found nothing. whether those objects seen by satellite last sunday were part of the airplane no one knows. theres been no way to tell. tonight we go back to where reality and mans ...

That was the last thing we heard from the plane. but they say they got the transcript of ten minutes of conversation before the plane took off and then 40 minutes in flight and then up to -- and it goes up to the very point where they say "all right, good night." and people whove looked at it say it shows nothing but normal activity. just routine transmissions. what that would tell you if its a real that nothing untoward came down in the cabin up to that point. nobody barged in or the co-pilot d...

>> some man-made decision was involved? >> it indicates right now, the evidence indicates that a knowledgeable individual had interaction with a computer and beyond that there was no communication. there was electrical power on the airplane, we know that. we know that there was electrical power on the airplane and available for several hours meaning greater than six. so put all of that together, it reduces the likelihood of a mechanical cataclysmic event on the airplane or an on board fire or so...