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Things that jump out here. as this plane was climbing the altitude track is what changed dramatically. the air speed remained constant. so the engines were still working, and they were still producing power. but in a one minute -- had just one minute, something very, very dramatic happened. the plane pitched up and dramatically climbed and then fell from the sky. in previous crashes that has meant the loss of a structural member. for example, in alaska air, it lost the horizontal stabilizer, the part of the tail that controls the nose up or nose down. in american airlines 587 in 2001, prior da...

Engines that's supposed to be bleeding off stops. and that overpressurizes the aircraft, basically taking you from a cabin altitude of say 8,000 feet down to below sea level immediately. and it causes physical damage to you at that point. and then back up again after that up to 30,000. >> david funk, what do you make of this theory? i guess it could be also smoke or some sort of fume that would knock these guys out in the cockpit or i guess a struggle or terrorist attempt, which knocks everybody out? >> that's possible. because we had some wide variations in the altitude track from the primary...

From a cabin altitude of say 8,000 feet down to below sea level immediately. and it causes physical damage to you at that point. and then back up again after that up to 30,000. >> david funk, what do you make of this theory? i guess it could be also smoke or some sort of fume that would knock these guys out in the cockpit or i guess a struggle or terrorist attempt, which knocks everybody out? >> that's possible. because we had some wide variations in the altitude track from the primary radars up in malaysia, i'm inclined to believe that the auto pilots were probably tripped off, at least in th...