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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...

Flight and we could track an airplane such as mh 370 if it had been equipped with this. >> greg, what do you think happened? >> i firmly belief right now, it was, and we talked about it all week, i was relatively certain of it when i saw the hook in the radar data, it had to be human intervention. it wasnt preprogrammed in autopilot. they were headed to beijing. it isnt smart enough to turn itself around if there was an explosive decompression and the pilots pass out, it doesnt have that functio...

Deliberately diverted. based on -- youve been following this as closely as anyone. do you agree with that assessment? >> steve, ive been talking about that since last week. when you look at the official information where we only had one flight track based on civilian radar, there was still a number of possibilities, whether it was a mechanical problem with the aircraft, some sort of explosive decompression that may have rendered the cockpit crew and the passengers. but when they gave the radar u...

Would shut off either a cataclysmic event or somebody did it on purpose. the transponders which transmit at tour altitude speed. they havent found any debris in the area where the transponders were shut off, so that would suggest potentially somebody did that on purpose. >> greg, do you want to pick up on that, please? >> absolutely. tom brings up a good point. if there was an explosive decompression. lets say a window blew out or a door blew out and material was actually sucked out of the aircr...

Something that says distress? can the air talk about that fast? >> if you talk about explosive decompression, were trained to deal with that. thats why he has an oxygen mask next to his shoulder so he gets that on before any kind of problem occurs. i dont think it was explosive decompression. >> okay. wont be that. back to you, evan. whats left? where do we go with this? the man, ali, say, what was your motive in giving free tickets to the two guys? i assume as a civilian, why would a guy come f...

Terrorism is out of the picture and hijacking is out of the picture, the list comes down to very few things which you then have to look at more closely. i have to admit at the beginning of this, i discounted the idea of some kind of structural failure because it seems so unlikely the safety record of boeing 777 is very impressive. but when you stop to look at the short list of possibilities, i took a look again of something which is called explosive decompression, which is when the plane is at c...

Can the air talk about that fast? >> if you talk about explosive decompression, were trained to deal with that. thats why he has an oxygen mask next to his shoulder so he gets that on before any kind of problem occurs. i dont think it was explosive decompression. >> okay. wont be that. back to you, evan. whats left? where do we go with this? the man, ali, say, what was your motive in giving free tickets to the two guys? i assume as a civilian, why would a guy come forward and say i gave them the...

Emergency situation. one of the other things, of course, is pressurization issues. if you have a high altitude pressurization problem, catastrophic decompression, the time of useful consciousness in the 20,000 to 30,000 foot range is a matter of seconds. while crews are trained to deal with these emergency situations, these rapid decompressions or explosive decompression situations, again its all a matter of timing. and similar to a -- where he was flying the crew passed out because of oxygen de...

Just as its supposed to. but something else expands, too, those cracks in the 737s fuselage. suddenly, theres an explosive decompression. its force is so powerful, a flight attendant is sucked out of the plane. >> i saw what i think was the stewardess feet as she was being sucked out of the plane. magazines, briefcases, shoes, you name it, anything that wasnt tied down was going out that hole. >> an 18-foot section of the plane is gone. passengers sitting nearby can see the sky above and the oce...

Suddenly, theres an explosive decompression. its force is so powerful, a flight attendant is sucked out of the plane. >> i saw what i think was the stewardess feet as she was being sucked out of the plane. magazines, briefcases, shoes, you name it, anything that wasnt tied down was going out that hole. >> an 18-foot section of the plane is gone. passengers sitting nearby can see the sky above and the ocean below. all thats holding the 737 together and just barely are the floor beams and the plan...