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Call acknowledged, whatever the call sign was, request your intentions. that's when the pilots will say intentions diversion, nice or wherever it is. then they will alert the destination airfield and then they will clear the circuit. they will tell all of the jets in the area to clear occupantut of the way. >> i want to go back to jay who is an experienced pilot. jay, talk to me about what is going on. we were seeing the weather, now you're seeing the actual conditions on this from france 24 our colleagues there. talk to me about when there is an emergency on board and you're dealing with it w...

Automatic pilot, that -- i'm not going to say that is the explanation, but that is an ex-an place. >> an explanation how we would not have a bunch of stuff. >> it is just a huge, huge ocean out there full of junk and maybe the debris's out there, we just haven't found it. >> when you look at the salvaging or whatever you bring up, what's -- we know the black box is the priority, hopefully that would tell us what the heck happened, what then? do you leave it rest? >> the black boxes? >> no, no the black boxes i'm assuming you bring up. naught aside. everything else? >> well, certainly, a very t...

Radar was -- data was collected over an hour and 20 minutes. we don't know the rate of descent. and also the turn precipitated the descent, according to the depiction we have. in other words, they made the turn first and it seems look a relatively slow turn if it took them two minutes. that said, we want to give you what might have been a scenario in which something like that could happen, and the way i said it to mitchell is that it is a dramatic decompression. the explosive bam, maybe a bulkhead has given away, maybe an explosive device in the back of the aircraft, get us down, get us turnin...

Doing that the alarms are going off and saying that you are descending fast. you want to do get down fast, because you want to open up the windows to get rid of some of the smoke by opening up a window. and then i would have a fire extinguisher in the kcargo hold to suppress the fire, and no word that it would work to put out the fire, and also, we would have oxygen masks, which we cannot deploy, but that is what would be going on. >> and yes. navigate and then communicate. >> yes. and radioing is the last thing, because you have seconds to come back to the ground and you want to alert the air...

>> some have suggested even if it were cruising on automatic pilot, say the pilots were disabled for whatever reason, runs out of fuel, it could still glide for a while before it actually went into the water. >> yeah. aircraft are inherently stable. but obviously gravity is a very large pull. so had that scenario been the case, then the aircraft would have kept flying. but it would have glided and it would have had a fairly decent glide angle. and that distance would have increased. >> does this tell us -- let's say this is the debris, peter, from the plane. does it give us an indication wheth...