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Because theres an awful lot of things if its an electrical fire, for example, you can get arc temperatures and electrical short somewhere between 7,000 degrees fahrenheit and as much as 16,000 degrees fahrenheit. the electrical component of the fire acts as an ignition source for things around it. swissair 111 being an example. my lar insulation in the overhead had literally caught on fire after being ignited by the electrical short. the crew wasnt aware of it and they were running the cockpit s...

Once it was there they got on their masks, contacted atc after they stabilized the airplane. unfortunately the fire burned through the control cables, put the airplane down. so id be real hesitant to focus on the fire. but the big question is going to be how is that airplane able to fly for another five hours after the original sequence. >> mary, when a plane does run out of gas on auto pilot, how far can it glide? >> well, it can glide very far. in the previous accidents where that has happened...

And communicate. you talk to people. >> how do you communicate if transponder acars not working. im throwing around terms like im a pilot. im not. suddenly we know about acars. when those systems go down, how do you communicate. >> navigation and maintenance, im talking about radios, telephone, smartphone. you pick it up and go mayday, mayday, mayday. >> does it work at that altitude? >> at 40,000 feet you can talk to the world. >> youre saying a pilot has a phone in the cockpit, if everything w...

Time. thats still a possibility. lets say this was some type of 9/11 hijacking. leaving one and going to the other would have been the perfect time. thats when it went off course and never contacted the next atc. >> lets follow the line of thinking it wasnt turned off. it is a pretty involved process to shut down that acars system, no? >> you have to get out of the cockpit, underneath the belly of the plane. >> i was talking to a 777 sar plane. he said it is a big deal. even if you get down ther...

Might make it difficult for atc to see the moving aircraft. >> i understand that. why not keep them, then, on when theyre in air all the time? >> well, one thing these air craft were did he signed to do is properly -- designed to do is properly navigate and provide agreed service. no one can foresee everything. after this situation i believe theyll make a change. one changes they could make here is that the pressure switch in the landing gear, unless theres pressure on the gear, which means its ...

>> theres two transponders on this airplane. theyre independent of each other. you could have one that totally failed but you have a backup. the fact that neither transponder is providing information to atc, which is specific to that airplane, it identifies the airline tag, the fact that both of them were not providing information, suggests possibly an electrical failure, but not possible really because of the circumstances and the fact that there had to have been some other level of guidance on...

Where depressurization -- any of those read to you as possible? >> theres two transponders on this airplane. theyre independent of each other. you could have one that totally failed but you have a backup. the fact that neither transponder is providing information to atc, which is specific to that airplane, it identifies the airline tag, the fact that both of them were not providing information, suggests possibly an electrical failure, but not possible really because of the circumstances and the ...

>> theres two transponders on this airplane. theyre independent of each other. you could have one that totally failed but you have a backup. the fact that neither transponder is providing information to atc, which is specific to that airplane, it identifies the airline tag, the fact that both of them were not providing information, suggests possibly an electrical failure, but not possible really because of the circumstances and the fact that there had to have been some other level of guidance on...

Columbian jungle and they had top flight information right away. this is inexcusable out of malaysia. the united states needs to take a more forceful role and step out and take the lead. what would they do differently? >> they would put order in this investigation. what you have to do in the moment after an accident, you have to get your hands around the neck of the information. that means you have to bring it all in, the radar tracks, the atc communication, the various eyewitness reports, whi...

On a discreet freeiquency with their company. if malaysia says it lost communication with the airplane, an atc is saying they have no two-way communication, then we have to assume that the airplane for whatever reason has gone out of communique. now, i heard jim kalstrom and matt talk about contact. northern track, theres a lot of stuff on the internet about this airplane being over the top of vietnam. that may not be necessarily true. and a lot of those tracks will take the airplane over the so...