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Interest of the u.s. in this, obviously you want to be helpful in any kind of aviation accident because we have obviously had planes -- 777s and all that. but in terms of just what we would want to explore going forward -- >> we have multiple interests in this. first of all, aircraft safety. airline safety. is there some flaw in the maintenance of that airplane. is there something wrong with the procedures at the kuala lumpur airport. secondly, the issue of terrorism. was there a terrorist act? ...

If one stops working, you go to the second one. so to have a redundant system and both of them not operating, that means it was done by some human being. >> john, you also think if this new information pans out that human intervention is involved here. >> certainly the sequence of events leads one to believe that there was somebody sequentially turning things off in that airplane. i mean, theres just no other conclusion. i agree with several of the previous witnesses saying that. >> john is ther...

Off. >> and you say you can know that definitively why? >> well, because you have two transponders. if one stops working, you go to the second one. so to have a redundant system and both of them not operating, that means it was done by some human being. >> john, you also think if this new information pans out that human intervention is involved here. >> certainly the sequence of events leads one to believe that there was somebody sequentially turning things off in that airplane. i mean, theres j...

To do that. and the idea it would happen separately these two systems obviously adds some weight to that theory. but they havent concluded thats the explanation. >> the second system i understand well talk to experts about this coming up is theres a circuit breaker that could be used to turn off the second form of transmission device. but again, minutes apart, it seems, at least some 20 minutes or so. well talk more about that coming up. jim appreciate it, richard quest as well. we should take a...

Miles an hour. the zone it was traveling 82 was a 70 mile an hour zone but this train, any way you look at it, was going above the posted speed limit. i want to bring back in nic robertson, who is out at the crash site right now. also, john golea, former member of the national transportation safety board. nic, one of the things people have been talking about all day indicating governor andrew cuomo this morning said he believes speed will end up being the major factor in this accident. we now kn...