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Because you could be contradicted by some news development in the next five minutes. if this plane flew into the indian ocean and had a change of four or five hours, i think there is a distinct possibility this plane will never be found. you may get wreckage floating ashore eventually. there are some that should float, a seat cushion, for example, but in terms of finding the wreckage itself and the crucially the black boxes, that would seem really unlikely. theres a distinction between air franc...

Bus was transmitting mechanical maintenance data back to its maintenance base at the time of the accident. we may find at some point that this aircraft was also transmitting some sort of data back down to the ground, that air traffic may not have seen because they wouldnt normally be privy to that kind of information anyway. right now it is probably a little too early to tell. >> and so in the absence of knowing exactly -- because theyre not coming out and saying we believe the jet is down. it a...

An aircraft. right now the american airlines has issued several thousand furlough notices, so its closed an entire maintenance base in oklahoma. so now you have a very demoralized maintenance crew. the maintenance people are also allowed to make write-ups, and so are the crew chiefs. jenna: the faa is investigating, and we wanted to do a little reporting ourselves. john gulia is a former member of the national transportation safety board, also a former airline mechanic. also joining us on the ph...