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Engines easily with that. fuel issues. you know, we've seen in the past foreign carriers -- >> when you say fuel issues, the plane may not have had enough fuel or -- >> yeah, i should clarify that. well, right. not enough fuel. minimum fuel. but it's, again, i'm throwing this out as the range of possibilities -- >> all things you've seen. >> sure. and particularly with the 777, as greg feith mentioned, you had the ice crystal issue in some of the planes and you had an auto pilot issue in the turkish air crash in holland. so there's a lot of things that are still in play. and at this stage, it'...

The real issue is, what was the cause of that? and you're right, it's too early to speculate. but it ranges the gamut from pilot error to mechanical failure, design error, or design issues in between. you can't rule out, for instance, bird strikes. as we've seen with miracle on the hudson, you can take out engines easily with that. fuel issues. you know, we've seen in the past foreign carriers -- >> when you say fuel issues, the plane may not have had enough fuel or -- >> yeah, i should clarify that. well, right. not enough fuel. minimum fuel. but it's, again, i'm throwing this out as the rang...

And the auto pilot issue. there have been some others. and i think that's part of what the ntsb that has to look at, with the help of boeing, contributing the information that's necessary, to determine if any of these past issues or instances with the design played a role in this particular crash. >> there has not been a plane crash like this of a commercial airliner of this size in this country, i believe, my colleague, tom costello says it's been well over a decade, if i'm not mistaken. and considering the sheer number of planes that take off every day in this country, the sheer number of pl...