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expedition yesterday and failed to return safely last night. >> sandra: operated by oceangate expeditions, a company in the past year has begun taking tourists for $250,000 apiece to explore the wreckage, which is located on the ocean floor of the atlantic around 350 miles south of newfoundland. alexis mcadams has the latest breaking details. >> just having the developments roll in here, its a small vessel, so an active search and rescue mission hoping to find the five mission speciali...

Impacted in a field in the midwest. why couldnt that have happened here, jesse dixon? >> the difference in this particular situation is obviously they had some kind of decompression situation, and the pilots failed to get their oxygen masks on in time. the transponders, if i remember, were not turned off on that particular airplane. thats the difference in the situation. the transponders were turned off. thats the only way to identify this aircraft positively. and the a cars and stuff were turne...

Or is this a terrible accident? >> well, i think something we have to keep in mind. we keep looking for the choice. which check box do we have. i think theres a possibility we have a situation that began one way and evolved into something else. we dont know someone didnt take control of the airplane and then run into a situation later that took them out in terms of keeping control of the airplane. >> but what i dont understand, let me go to jesse dixon jr, i remember the payne stewart leer jet. ...

Impacted in a field in the midwest. why couldnt that have happened here, jesse dixon? >> the difference in this particular situation is obviously they had some kind of decompression situation, and the pilots failed to get their oxygen masks on in time. the transponders, if i remember, were not turned off on that particular airplane. thats the difference in the situation. the transponders were turned off. thats the only way to identify this aircraft positively. and the a cars and stuff were turne...

Or is this a terrible accident? >> well, i think something we have to keep in mind. we keep looking for the choice. which check box do we have. i think theres a possibility we have a situation that began one way and evolved into something else. we dont know someone didnt take control of the airplane and then run into a situation later that took them out in terms of keeping control of the airplane. >> but what i dont understand, let me go to jesse dixon jr, i remember the payne stewart leer jet. ...