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Off, control inputs and all of the data from the flight. the cockpit voice recorder is not likely to yield as much information because its on a two-hour loop. >> i raised the issue why? why record over if something sinister is going on, it could be on that recorder in the first two hours of a long flight, not the last two hours. oxygen for passengers is only 15 minutes. thats for them to reach a safe altitude where you dont need it. in terms of this recorder, the fact that the battery life is on...

About that development. >> well, lets put it this way, we add the caveat that maybe it didnt go down 12,000 feet, but if it did, that is easily explained, and in fact, it fits in very neatly with the theory, and a speculative theory i had almost two weeks ago, that the aircraft suffered some form of depressurization. now, any pilot will know that the first thing you do in a depressurization is put on your oxygen mask to keep yourself compus.meantis, alert, awake, keep from passing out. you desce...

Of the russian -- ethnic russian rebels in that region. nobody can secure their safety or guarantee their safety. theres not going to be nations that want to send their people over there. in addition to that, the site has been contaminated. there were videos of civilians climbing all over the place, taking things and so on. the rebels claim they have the black box. its difficult to envision how any investigation is going to generate anything of use. >> what we can say is this was blown out of th...

Earlier on "studio b." i spoke with a couple passengers sitting below that spot. they say the roof blew up 20 minutes into the flight as they were ordering drinks. >> we heard a huge pop, almost like an explosion dollarses then the oxygen masks were deployed. >> the passenger put the plane into a nose dive to reach a safe altitude and then made an emergency landing at a military base in yuma. southwest cancelled 70 flights today. so teams could check other planes for trouble. that means the airl...