again, some difficulty in the cockpit, has them preoccupied. any of those combinations can occur. >> tell me about the a 320, the type of plane this is. >> it's a medium range. fly by wire. you've had the a 320 that crash would airasia, sime type of aircraft. it's a highly automated aircraft. computer driven where the pilots are mostly outside of the control route until something happens and they have to go inside the control loop. >> it sounds like -- i'm looking at a news report out of the area, it looks as if they did have a warning that something was going hay wire. they're reporting the jet crashed near a small mountain village in the southern alps. it made a distress call at 10:47 a.m. local time and disappeared off the radar at