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It went off. when first-responders arrived the 29-year-old woman was already dead. >> this is a you know, pretty tragic incident right now that we're dealing with. especially here it is the around the holidays, just after christmas, right before the new year. tragic, tragic accident. trace: can you imagine? the family remembering the mom as very loving mother who left them way too soon. heather: back to one of our top stories. effort to recover black boxes from air asia flight 8501 delayed as storm my weather in the java sea makes it nearly impossible to reach the site. now strong currents are...

Would have to in kpcapacitate t other. it would not be the first time a lone wolf pulled off a murder. former analyst, former commercial jet pilot and former airline instructor, and mark boyd, instructional analyst. the lack of a mayday call, kathleen, that is the point on which so many people who want to give the pilots the benefit of the doubt get hung up on. your thoughts on it? >> i don't get hung up on it at all, and i can tell you as a former airline pilot and airline instructor, i don't really find this unusual, because as everyone knows from watching the news the past few days, there...

It shows it wouldn't be the first time a lone wolf pulled off a mass you are in der. >> back to our panel. fox news aviation analyst former commercial jet pilot and airline instructor and fox news aviation panelist. good to see you back. the lack of a mayday call kathleen that is a point on which so many people want to give the pilot the benefit of the doubt. >> i don't find it unusual. from watching the news the past few days there is first you aviation to flight the airplane then you navigate. if you have time you communicate. it was so sudden they didn't have time to react to the call.

That day which suggests if this was a deliberate act one pilot would have to incapacitate the other. >> wow. back now to our panel. fox news aviation analyst, former chommercial jet instructor. good to see you both back. so the lack of a may day call, kathleen, this is the point on which so many people who want to give the pilots of the doubt get hung up on. your thoughts on it. >> i don't get hung up on at all. i can tell you as a former airline pilot and airline instructor. i don't find this all that unusual. as everyone knows from watching the news the past few days, basically first you avi...

Silence. are you in good hands? back now to a big development we're tracking tonight, earlier we spoke with retired air force general tom mcinerney that this plane was flown to pakistan, listen. >> i still think a course of action, now, megyn, is that the airplane went north and it went into either pakistan or eastern iran. i don't -- cannot confirm that. but all the data i have, this would be a course of action, again, a course of action. >> back now to our panel. robert mark, a commercial panel and aviation analyst, and kathleen banks, former airline instructor and an aviation specialist, ...