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Systems so close together that the plane just lost a tremendous amount of speed all of a sudden dropped to say, 100 miles per hour and began to stall. if that happens, then you have a real serious problem related to the weather because the air flow over the wing the very thing that makes the plane fly could separate from the wing. its like losing traction on a wet road with your car and regaining it is hard. it would take a very skilled crew a very calm crew, and if they didnt do everything righ...

Plane was, in the most violent area of thunderstorm activity. its up and down. its bumpy. its violent weather. 50,000-foot-tall thunderstorms here and many close together up and down next to each other. the pilot has to find the smoothest are place possible because the air goes over the wing to make the plane fly. this is how a plane flies. because the wing on top has a longer distance than the flap on the bottom that makes the plane go up. if you lose that flow you get the potential for stallin...

Need to be investigation but also to the extent the ukrainian authorities carried out their obligations and did everything necessary to ensure that the military campaign of kiev would prevent disasters from occurring. today, kiev declared a full closure of the airspace in the conducting of the so-called anti terrorism by the region. >> youve been listening to the russian ambassador to the united nations regarding the shooting down of mh-17. at least the part we heard right there, he wasnt talkin...

Australia, thank you. malaysias response to the did i ace appearance of flight 370 has been marked with dysfunction. how could the plane fly for so many hours without anyone even looking for it. barbara starr has been looking into this part of the story. what are you discovering, barbara? >> wolf, malaysia says it is investigating how its commercial aviation and military authorities did or did not work together in the confusing hours when the plane first disappeared. how is it that they didnt ...

It will be up again today looking for debris. that still is a factor. you could easily still have debris on the surface of the water. that would give us a clue. were hoping to still have a couple more days at least with the black box pinging away, so well still have the toad pinger locator out there, and, you know, only afterward will we kind of resort to putting the side scan sonar in a general location where its not quite precise. >> all right. well, commander marks, thank you very much for ta...

Its definite that someone actually made the airplane do this. they could have done it two ways. they could have put information into the computer to make the plane fly in that direction, or they could have just simply turned the heading knob in the direction that they wanted to go. >> john barton, thank you for your expertise. we appreciate >> it thank you. the fort hood shooter had never been in combat, so why was he undergoing diagnostics for ptsd? and should a baseball player tell his wife ...

Got in and initiated it. its definite that someone actually made the airplane do this. they could have done it two ways. they could have put information into the computer to make the plane fly in that direction, or they could have just simply turned the heading knob in the direction that they wanted to go. >> john barton, thank you for your expertise. we appreciate >> it thank you. the fort hood shooter had never been in combat, so why was he undergoing diagnostics for ptsd? and should a baseb...

Some path to get this aircraft down to a point where it code is appear. they dont say who they say it doesnt necessarily mean emergency. >> another question. how long can this plane fly at 12,000 feet because we know the last ping picked up by satellite happened what five or six hours later. >> right. right. thats another key factor to hang on to. remember this plane if it was an emergency still flu for a very long time apparently. so mitchell any idea how long they could fly 12,000 with the fue...

The problem with the world is that the people in these countries, they want our help, but their leaders dont. thats the case in almost all of these countries. we could do so much good in so many places, but the leaders say no and they screw up and make peoples lives miserable. >> bob, last week, you pointed out this is the biggest aviation mystery, and do you think this is just going to have to remain a mystery? >> well, the first thing that strikes me, this is the first thing the malaysians hav...

In 2011 the egypt air 777 was at the gate in cairo when it caught fire and look at the cockpit, look at the damage it did. the reason that fire spread so quickly, it was an oxygen rich environment. everybody got off that plane okay, but the damage -- the jet was destroyed. >> its eerie to think of that happening. back with me now, my panel. patrick, let me start with you, the main argument against mechanical failure seems to be how could a plane fly five or six hours on auto pilot across malaysi...