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Other guest said it is just as easy to make a radio control as to set the transponder. so that doesnt -- i dont think that means anything. pilots trained if you have a decompression problem to put on your oxygen mask the first thing you do then you start a rapid descent, youre required to descend to an altitude where no one needs oxygen in four minutes. this took eight minutes. >> to clydes point, this terrain and the circumstances that the pilot would have been facing? >> he would have turned f...

This in his spare time. we do that on a regular basis as part of our job. doing that on your spare time is very telling, very professional. >> is the simulator good for that kind of practice? >> thats what a simulator is for. >> if i said sudden decompression, something like that? >> lets do it. >> go ahead. set us up. tell us what happens. >> all right. were at decompression, the airplane, we got a warning saying theres decompression problem. rapid or otherwise. were basically going to try to g...

Thanks, barbara starr. lets look at the other side. the possibility that maybe there wasnt a villain, be it a potential hijacker but it was one horrific accident. joe johns, youve been looking into that for us. what is it about the flight path and behavior that tells investigators that it could be accidental as opposed to intentional. >> jim, this goes into the category of things that cant be ruled out as long as a black box is not recovered. a sudden change in direction suggests that something ...

bond hearing. >> and the oldest and most traveled space shuttle welcomed this hour at the museum where it will live out its days. more than 13 months after its final mission "discovery" on public display in a hangar near dulles airport in virginia. its part of the national air and space museum, home to that stuff that wont fit in the building youve probably visited on the mall in d.c. "discovery" flew into dulles on tuesday and its sister shuttle "endevour" was bound for los angeles an...