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If there was no speaking whatsoever, it suggests that they may have been unconscious. with regards to the data recorder, we have a lot of information already just from the flightaware and flight tracking web sites that give a lot of data actually in real time. so we know that that aircraft flew straight ahead, that it descended at a controlled rate even though it was rather high not excessively so it was a controlled descent. the speed was maintained so it was not a stall. the fact that it went ...

Roughly, based on the flight tracking websites about three minutes before it started to make a rather rapid but steady descent. youre looking at that, thats the blue line which is the altitude. so at this point, wolf, the cockpit voice recorder which is still missing, thats going to be critical because we will be able to hear on that recording what were the pilots saying were they saying anything was it total silence? that could be an indication of something as well if they were incapacitated or...

Make this crash even more perplexing. this is an aircraft that were talking about here essentially as pamela said the workhorse of the aviation community. we know that it has an impeccable safety record. the aircraft had received its maintenance check just yesterday. and the captain of the plane we can also tell you has been with the airline for more than ten years. so what could have gone wrong? you can see that the planes rapid descent, it was very steady. when you look at these flight trackin...

Just momentarily is having one safety recommendation, and that is global flight tracking. this is coming from the international civil aviation organization. preliminary findings and study on february 2 to 5, 2015, asking for global flight tracking. right now we track aircraft for about every 30 minutes in oceanic flights. they are probably going to be pushing back to do that tracking every 15 minutes, even as low as 10 minutes. and this is good news, because when we have, since 1948 80 oceanic r...

Start with you, david. talk to me about the data and the fact that in todays day and age, you would think that we would be getting information from this plane, and why arent we we? >> well, at best right now, we have clis. the clues are simplyt not enough. we can only speculate. and thousands of things could have happened right now, and no excuse for not having this information right now. and emarsat said they could put free flight tracking to know where the aircraft is and information about the...

Be a messy commute, its going to be a messy ride if youre going by car. as far as air goes, youre going to see delays today. and the national outlook, what it looks like right now, were talking about creeping close to 2,000 delays at this hour. again, its still pretty early. so all the boards like here at reagan, they look good. im seeing many flights are on time. however, you see cancellations at the obvious places like mississippi, where those deadly tornadoes touched down yesterday. so we see...

Learning what will happen and how will we move forward and get flight tracking immediately and whats the quickest way to do it that airlines will do it thats affordable. theres 11,000 airplanes with equipment on them but now immarsat says they can use this equipment. they expect by the end of the year to have flight tracking on all 11,000 aircraft. >> thats something we talked about with you. all aviation experts have talked about the need to this and fact its almost onboard. it couldnt come soo...

According to many of the flight tracking websites, there are roughly more than 500 delays. not all of them necessarily having to do with weather. these are the delays that were seeing now in the hundreds. as far as airports go, were seeing the most delays at charlottes airport. also in philadelphia. were seeing delays at ohare as well as a few in atlanta as well. as far as cancellations go, were seeing some in boston as well as newark and laguardia in new york. for more on whats happening in new...

Find out more information there. we will have much more on that throughout the show. first we have this fox news alert for you this morning. >> all right. so this is where we begin a blind chinese activist jong cheng leaving china on a plane for the u.s. peter does is has the details whats the update, pete? >> julia united airlines is in the air with chen, his wife and their two kids on board reportedly in business class but surrounded by heavy security and based on our own online flight trackin...

>> he ruled out a vice presidential slot on the national ticket, but he did not seem to rule out a possible run in the future. maybe in 2016. shepherd? >> shep: eric, trenton, new jersey. lets get to the republicans who are running. new poll shows one candidate skyrocketing and a front runner in free fall. a live update coming up from americas election headquarters. fox urgent, amanda knox is minutes away from setting foot on american soil for the first time in about four years. shes heading hom...