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45, 50 minutes passed before he gets picked up, where they were dropped off. there is a look at helicopter. just to review that point. medivac helicopters don't come in without apatche helicopters because they don't have guns on board. they need that protection and everybody to be safe. you just wrote a letter to the defense secretary, that was joined by 16 other lawmakers. tell us about that, and have you heard a response yet? >> first of all, no, we have not heard a response, and the things that we have heard at different times seem to be kind of conflicting stories. the helicopter that came...

1982, once the captain moody got the engines started again, he had to literally lift up in his seat when he landed the plane, look out the corner of the windshield because the entire windshield was pitted, having been hit by that ash for several hours. so not only will the -- do you seriously risk the engines coming to a stop, which is bad enough, but you could do serious damage to the airframe, to the windshie windshield. all in all, i promise you, they don't close airspace like this unless they have to. this is a real one. we're all better off on the ground. >> we'll continue on this story w...

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The s-300, our patriots system could do that. these are huge systems which take a crew to run. isis is not there yet. 30,000 feet, man pads can't make it. they make it to 15,000, 18,000 max. but physical evidence shows that the actual airframe, the actual compartment shows pieces of metal fanning out like they were blown out, which tells me this may have been a lockerbie type bombing. isis has been aggressive in pursuing targets in the sinai. egyptians are fighting them daily. isis has conducted assassinations there. so we have to look at the old traditional route of putting the bomb on the pl...

Failure of the plane itself. >> clive, you've written about the 777, whether it disintegrated in the air of explosion or hit the water in one piece is highly significant. can you explain that? >> that makes a big difference in the problems faced by the search of the ocean because the precursor to this is air france 447 which disappeared over the south atlantic in 2009 and in that case the plane was whole when it hit the water. it broke up on on impact with the water. if this 777 broke up at 36,000 feet where it was cruising, at cruise height, broke up into many pieces, the debris would take di...