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And anything else that would have an input to telling us exactly what happened. it will corroborate what went on in the cockpit as far as the controls and the engine the altitude all of the control surfaces and tell us exactly where and what that plane was doing while he was manipulating the controls. >> paul that plane hit the mountain at 400 miles per hour or faster. would that necessarily damage the second black box to the point where we couldnt extract information? >> well hopefully not. the...

That could override the pilots actual intent. what is your assessment of what could have happened base on the information we have? >> fly by wires, essentially what that means is the pilot puts in control input and those dont go directly to the control surfaces. rather they go to a computer which decides she put in this much input this is how im going flight controls. this aircraft limits what you can do because its a system that limits allowing you to pull too many gs or fly too high, for examp...

Recorder, dont have answers for us, theres going to be tremendous pressure to bring up significant parts of the aircraft. and that will be some task. >> what would jeopardize that message, a corrosion issue or simply because of the way in which the material is recorded over itself? >> well, lets assume that the black boxes are fine and intact and they work fine. the cockpit voice recorder captures the last two hours on a loop. this was a seven-hour flight and whatever happened the event which ca...

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 ...

Manufactured from 2015 forward. it doesnt help anything in the past. >> and there are 20,000 planes up there now. could take a lot of time to retrofit. speaking with mark weiss, our aviation analyst, longtime american airlines pilot, he made the point that a boeing 777 has more metal in it than the airbus, which was the air france plane, which has more composite, which is therefore more likely to float, making parts of the 777 less likely to float because that metal content. does that make sense...

Plane. but this one by a 20-year-old pilot. he says the loss of transponders and communication makes perfect sense in a fire. and there was most likely an electrical fire. it was probably a serious event and the flight crew was occupied with controlling the plane and trying to fight the fire. what i think happened is the flight crew was overcome by smoke and the plane continues on the heading probably on autopilot until it ran out of fuel or the fire destroyed the control surfaces and it crashed...

One-by-one until you have isolated the bad one. if they pull the buses the plane would go silent. as for the flights ultimate end he suggests that the flight crew was overcome by smoke and the plane continued until it ran out of fuel or the fire destroyed the control surfaces and it crashed. joining me now is former fbi special agent and chief operating officer of the sufan group don berrelli who is a retired captain. the practicality of this latest theory you would turn off the communications y...

Plane they dont tell the story. back with me now is bill nye. bill, you went to boeing and also worked separately on black boxes. tell me your experiences and what you believe is the importance of the black box. >> the black box means you dont know what is inside, that is all. in here, it is bright orange so if youre a diver under water you may find them. or on land you can find them. the idea is, you heard of the flight data recorder. the least important thing it keeps track of is the voices in...

With t will the so-called black boxes answer the questions? bill nye is back with me. tell me what is your experience and what you make of the importance right now of one of these. >> the black box means you dont know whats inside, thats all. theyre bright orange, so you are a diver under water, you might find them. but the idea is, youve heard of the flight data recorder. it keeps track of all sorts of data on the plane, the position of the control surfaces, the tloltd and so on. the thing in t...

Fly-by wire systems has a manual backup where the pilot can disconnect the fly by wire system and fly the plane using mechanical links between the control surfaces and the cockpit. so it remains to be seen what happened to this particular airplane. but there have been in-flight problems in that regard. >> anthony, also, you know, the plane took off from egypt and it was going to russia. but the communication seems to be a little confusing. egypt has said they know its crashed, theyre recovering ...