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Plane. the only thing he said that makes sense is perhaps one pilot locking the other out of the cockpit and then turning the plane around on some weird kind of suicide mission because nothing else seems to make sense. total electrical failure, you know, some kind of explosive decompression of plane, none of it fits all of the indications, all of the evidence here. >> well, were not going to get to the bottom of this until we find the black boxes, this we find this aircraft. now, that is a possi...

Stage, with clear skies and a veteran pilot. then it disappeared from radar. no warning, no distress call. there were conflicting reports about whether it may have tried to turn back. >> nothing causes an airplane to come down from 35,000 feet, other than things that can be catastrophic. >> reporter: things like total structural failure, loss of both engines, complete electrical failure or pilot error. two passengers who boarded using stolen passports have raised concerns about terrorism. >> the...

Its hard for me to imagine an electrical failure, to have total electrical failure. thats just something out of the blue. the aircraft really needs to have electrical power. its designed that way. there are all kinds of redundancies built into the system so you dont end up flying blind, so to speak. so i think that we are dealing with a situation here where the questions still are looming largely over this full atmosphere. did the airplane actually crash, or did it land someplace? >> thats a big...

Route and this sort of dogleg that it took, in your mind, does that tell you that they had trouble, just good-old fashioned guiding? >> its called dead reckoning or pilot flying by looking at the ground with a map. that very well could have been the case. if they did have a total electrical failure, if they were down to a map, a compass, and a clock, which is how many ships still navigate around the world. all our navigators are taught to do that. pilots are trained to do that from the very begi...

People, when you look at this new information from this malaysian official and you look at the route of that plane, what do you think happened? do you think it was catastrophic electrical failure? do you think it was possibly a hijacking or terrorism? what do you make of it? >> i think it doesnt answer either question. you dont have the catastrophic mechanical failure that blew it out of the sky like twa-800 had. but because it still stayed in the air another hour and a half after whatever happe...

>> i dont know what it is about. i dont challenge them on that. but why didnt he do this 16 1/2 years ago? i have no knowledge of any of these things he speaks about. first off, its clear to understand one thing. the fbi and ntsb are two separate agencies. this fbi has criminal jurisdiction under title 18 of crime aboard aircraft or destroying american flag aircraft. the ntsb is the investigative agency for the crashes and things like that, mechanical, electrical failure, pilot failure, things l...

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We have plenty of time, but water levels are rising. thats the danger. you could have short-circuits, pump failure, electrical failure. and if that happens, then were in deep trouble. gregg: they say they have nine backup plans. whats the worst case? >> they even admit that water levels now are at about 7000 feet above sea level. if it goes to 1400, thats the magic number, 1400, even they admit all hell could break loose at that point. gregg: like what? >> pumps could fail, water circulation cou...