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Parameterer over the entire course of its flight. mica, back to you. >> tom costello thank you very much. two of the experts from las vegas former ntsb investigator greg fife and tampa, florida, aviation analyst john cox. greg if i can start with you, then im going to open it up to the table. with so many perplexing questions still, why is terrorism being ruled out so early, it seems? >> reporter: thats an interesting question because they havent really gotten any information that would rule it ...

A rabbit hole is as we saw with mh-370, which was complexing about the whole situation, there was no communication from the crew. the transponder stopped giving out a signal. the transponder is something really interesting. its effectively a piece of equipment in the aircraft that sends it to the radar on the ground and allows atc to look at where the aircraft is with the individual identification code and it can see what altitude these aircraft are at. so if there is decline or descent in altit...

Had -- the aircraft did show on radar that it was climbing. they never acknowledged that radio call from atc to initiate a climb. so what that leads me to believe in addition to a preliminary radar image from air traffic control that shows the aircraft had slowed down about 100 to 120 knots indicates to me possibly that aircraft was stuck in some very, very bad turbulence and perhaps in a strong updraft right before it lost control. >> again, based on your experience as a fighter pilot, do you t...

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