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Get on a plane bound for the u.s., that includes checking all passenger and crew against the u.s. terror watchlist. okay, vulnerabilities still exist intelligence officials say the downing of metro jet was, in fact, an inside job, kristi, the authorities world wide have to zero in with secure access who can come in and out with their badges. >> we appreciate it so much, thank you. >> lets bring in cnn analyst peter bergen. i want to kind of flex out something that you brought up in the last segm...

Investigating authorities in the u.s. and other countries if it were not the pilots, if it was someone else on the plane, would we have a sense of this at this point? >> you would think you would. miles said that correctly. just because we narrowed it down or authorities narrowed it down to the captain and first officer doesnt mean weve proven the point and no pilot wants that be the case. but, i think that in terms of the passenger mode im not totally satisfied weve gotten the conclusion on any...

It is not measuring where it is on the plot. it knows it is on the line but it doesnt know where it is on the line. i guess one of the questions is, lets assume that the point of this was, pilot take over and like a flight 990 suicide. why not just put it in the drink right away? why fly it for six or seven hours? >> well, aviation, commercial aviation cannot stay in a vacuum. we need to find out what happened. air france 447 which crashed in the south atlantic, they searched for two years until...

Physical actions of turning off the transponder is absolutely critical. it shows that someone in the flight deck, someone with training was able to do both functions. in between the two the crew signals all right, good night. that is damning evidence that indicates something was going on in the flight deck. >> you were saying to me before we went on the air. and youve been involved in these investigations. in addition to whatever they may be able to find on the ground, that they may do some anal...

That egyptair with the pilot did commit suicide. >> let me just briefly set this up if i can. egyptair, flight 990 crashed in 1999 off the coast new england. and it was later determined by the ntsb and you were leading the investigation, that it was pilot suicide. tell us what you did there and how you think that might apply here. >> the difference was, we had five different sets of radar, monitoring egyptair. we were able to recover the data recorder and the voice recorder nine days after the a...

The question in who was behind that. there are a lot of warning signs along the way. the fact the trans ponder was turned off, the flight pattern changed abruptly. we have two iranians with stolen passport thats were not checked with interpol which we would have done in this country. one-way tickets bought with cash that the hijackers do, there are a lot of questions raised. one thing is very clear, chris. this was an intentional, deliberate act that unfortunately probably killed 239 people. >> ...

It is not measuring where it is on the plot. it knows it is on the line but it doesnt know where it is on the line. i guess one of the questions is, lets assume that the point of this was, pilot take over and like a flight 990 suicide. why not just put it in the drink right away? why fly it for six or seven hours? >> well, aviation, commercial aviation cannot stay in a vacuum. we need to find out what happened. air france 447 which crashed in the south atlantic, they searched for two years until...

Physical actions of turning off the transponder is absolutely critical. it shows that someone in the flight deck, someone with training was able to do both functions. in between the two the crew signals all right, good night. that is damning evidence that indicates something was going on in the flight deck. >> you were saying to me before we went on the air. and youve been involved in these investigations. in addition to whatever they may be able to find on the ground, that they may do some anal...

The question in who was behind that. there are a lot of warning signs along the way. the fact the trans ponder was turned off, the flight pattern changed abruptly. we have two iranians with stolen passport thats were not checked with interpol which we would have done in this country. one-way tickets bought with cash that the hijackers do, there are a lot of questions raised. one thing is very clear, chris. this was an intentional, deliberate act that unfortunately probably killed 239 people. >> ...

After a man hit another passenger for reclining on his seat. here is the air traffic controller audio recording. >> united, we have a passenger secured. >> neckive, passenger is not secured, the passenger has settled down, though, but an assault has taken place but at this time it is in the secure. >> the spokesman said the pilot made the call to return to dulls and fighter jets on stand by since the attack of 9/11 and our national correspondent is on this. security threat at automatic here? >>g...