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Thailand and china there is no going under those radars. >> this batteries on board, catching fiemplt i will give this to jeff wise. here's what lori say. she says huge question, mark for me is the lithium batteries on board. could that be a cause of explosion and crash, huge question mark for me. could that be the cause? jeff wise? >> theoretically that could be the cause. fires can arise from a number of causes have haven't been any indication cans. there's no evidence for a fire. there weren't any acars conversations that indicated fire, no transmissions by the pilot saying we're on fire. i...

All right good night. that doesn't sound like someone who is struggling with fire or some other malfunction would say. there's no indication of panic or concern. the fact that there's no clear motive doesn't -- it's not positive either way. so the absence of any evidence for catastrophic fail yier, you also have to take into consideration the safety of the 777. it's a robust, well-built platform. all modern aircraft are so redundant that they don't spontaneously come bust. these -- we're talking about acars, radio transmissions. that somehow these are all spontaneously fall and over ride their...

France 447, we knew where it crashed, the transponder was on, the acars was on, but the black box wasn't found for two years. remember, we have the gps on the black boxes that last for about 30 days. the way these were found was by robots. >> how many square miles last time, very small? >> far smaller than 600,000 square miles. they found the debris field, and it led them to the black boxes. that will be key once we find the haystack, but we have to find it. that's what we're trying to do. >> great report. really appreciate it. >> more breaking news. we heard from chuck hagel who said once aga...

Decompression. one is with a maintenance crew forget to turn back on the automatic pressurization. another is from a crack in the fuselage. it's possible. at that point, you would assume if everyone else perished, except for the pilot, presumably there was lack of control surfaces, too. otherwise he would have taken the plane home and delivered the loved ones though perished back to the airport. there must have been something with lack of control of the plane. >> this is about electrical control system. john cook asks this. he says, what's the probability that an electrical issue rendered the ...

Makes it sound like they're incriminating but they aren't. let's not forget that. and really, frankly, nothing can be ruled out now. most every scenario you come up with you can run it through. some of the more plausible than others. frankly, the crew being responsible for this is a very plausible scenario but one of many that are still possible. >> les abend, you are the pilot here. you flew 777s. paint for me a picture where if the pilot, as some people suspect, took this plane off for whatever reason, what happened? in other words, is it possible that he could have shut down all communicati...