CNN CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield October 31, 2015 18:32:00
In your view, and based on your experience, what are the realm of possibilities in which something like that would occur? >> well, they tend to fall in three general areas. one, of course, is weather. we remember air france 447. west caribbean 708 and air asia. those encountered level 5, level 6 thunderstorms, horrific weather and the pilots allowed the air speed to deteriorate. that's not the case here. we also have the cases of missiles and bombs onboard. kal, panam 103. that's, you know, that's possible, but if the pilot was able -- it was catastrophic and instant. and then that leads us to...