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Back from the end to the beginning, you hit this thing about the transponder being turned off. and about the acars being disabled. which, those two things make this theory very problematic, but at the same time can we accept that those two things were turned off actively or did they just fail for some mechanical reason? >> that i think is the key question. seems to me there was a bit more authoritative necessary than necessarily necessitated by the facts in the way that the turning off was portrayed over the weekend. clive irving. thank you very much. >> you're welcome. joining me now, msnbc...

Crew could have been incapacitated in some way. everyone on the plane could have been incapacitated in some way. rather than someone intervening. and there are two ways in which that could have happened. there's the decompression theory which is if the plane lost pressure in the cabin, there would be an oxygen shortage and both the crew and passengers would rapidly become unconscious and there's a case of that happening in the mediterranean a few years ago. or there could be a fire which generated a certain kind of smoke. the fire could have come from the cargo hold where we know there were li...

Smoke without flames, which would have done that. which would have faded away. in fact, a fire in the cargo hold could have taken out those two systems. the problem with my hypothesis here is when you work your way back from the end to the beginning, you hit this thing about the transponder being turned off. and about acars being disabled. which those two things make this theory very problematic, but the same time, can we accept that those two things were turned off actively or fail for some mechanical reason? >> that i think is the key question. seems to me there was a bit more authoritative ...