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Les, you flied a 777. you talked a lot about this e & e compartment. do you think it could have been compromised on mh-370? >> anything can be on the table. but in order to get into that compartment from the cabin, you've got to disrupt cabin service, you've got to lift up a rug, it goes on and on. so somebody's going to notice this. and if you get in from outside the airplane the access is different. somebody may have noticed. i know malaysia may have some lax security procedures but there are procedures in the united states that you can know this that if somebody tried to gain access you wou...

With all of these theories -- we have seen them all. we have discussed them all. we're discussing them here. is there anything we're going to see wash up in the ocean, like we have seen this piece of debris that's going to get us these answers or does it all still come back to needing that flight data recorder? >> yes, there's a very important piece and that's the ray dome of the aircraft the front of the aircraft, which is also honey comb similar in texture and size and thickness to this piece that did float up there. if the aircraft crashed in the way that we think it did, that front of the ...

And all of that is separate from the a&e compartment. that would be isolated to that part of the aircraft. >> mary schiavo and david suchie, thank you both. even if crews recovered debris from flight 370, there's one question remaining, did this crew deliberately divert the plane? up next, friends and family defend the captain. plus, another earthquake jolt, the los angeles area. this is the second one in just weeks. we have details on this coming up. are you still sleeping? just wanted to check and make sure that we were on schedule. the first technology of its kind...

Fire but hydrochloric acid and the sulphuric acid in vapor form still continue to exude. if those batteries were stored in the front i'd be looking for evidence of that. those two gasses together could be deadly. >> in supplement to what david is saying, if it got into the e and e compartment, lower compartment that has all the avionics and so forth, that doesn't have halon to it. it has a system that automatically -- if it senses smoke it will reverse the air flow. now if the pilots put on their oxygen mask, the problem is if they don't recognize they have a toxic situation they might not go ...

If the halon extinguishes the fire but hydrochloric acid and the sulphuric acid in vapor form still continue to exude. if those batteries were stored in the front i'd be looking for evidence of that. those two gasses together could be deadly. >> in supplement to what david is saying, if it got into the e and e compartment, lower compartment that has all the avionics and so forth, that doesn't have halon to it. it has a system that automatically -- if it senses smoke it will reverse the air flow. now if the pilots put on their oxygen mask, the problem is if they don't recognize they have a toxi...