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Or auto pilot computers, flight control computers. it could be quite significant. >> reporter: customs officers say the drugs are usually smuggled on board in latin america or the caribbean without the pilot's knowledge, then retrieved by insiders at a u.s. airport. >> this is all related to individuals who work for the airline who are smuggling these drugs off the aircraft. >> reporter: an american airlines mechanic faces charges of retrieving 25 pounds of cocaine from an avionics bay wrapped in his jacket. american tells nbc news its corporate security team works in close partnership with la...

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The faa and the united states issued a warning to airliners with regard to the 777s, fire wall and the flight computers being inadequate and they felt it could be breached theoretically from the entertainment system in the passenger seat. >> that is a scary possibility. >> yeah. >> yeah. and the 777 also has an unsecured hatch to the major avionics bay where all of the plane's computers are located an runs the cockpit and -- and runs the cockpit and everything on the plane and outside of the cockpit, and accessible by passengers who may know where it is and it is unlocked and anyone with avion...

Question. the one malfunction that i've been kind of touting. and granted it's all speculation. and anything's open for grabs. i could be totally wrong. i could fall on my sword here. but the one i've been going with is the potential for a smoldering fire that became insidious with smoke. they smelled something. at first when you fly airplanes long enough you know the gals have burned something in the ovens. you don't make much of it for awhile. then when it gets worse and worse, then you realize it's time to put on our oxygen mask and then it's time to divert the airplane. because now we have...

Certainly help investigators piecing together what happened. and this is certainly significant if indeed true. it is certainly significant. >> yes. i have a question to our 777 experts. on this communication bus, does it happen to be in proximity to the oxygen? is it possible that it could have taken out both communication and the oxygen for the crew? that would explain a lot. >> les? >> that's a great question. >> the answer with my knowledge as a pilot is absolutely no. there is a circuit breaker in the overhead panel that will shut off the display unit. but most of the guts of it is down in...