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No distress call. >> exactly. >> we don't know what's on the voice recorder from the cockpit yet. we don't know what the crew were doing. they were incapacitated or focused on fixing a problem. we don't know. it's pretty interesting there was no distress call. >> it is. it raises another possibility, a third one, which is called controlled flight into terrain. c-fit is the term you hear in aviation circles. it's a common term because it's something that does happen. a crew is getting some kind of false reading or there's something that gives them false into their altitude. crews become so fixa...

People say, can that really happen? this is the reason why we urge people not to text and drive because it's hard to imagine that simply looking at a phone would make you miss a truck in front of you and yet people do it all the time. there's a version of this which happens to pilots and it's calledcall called c-fit. that's one of the other things they have to consider. >> thank you very much. a licensed commercial pilot, re retired pilot and our aviation correspondent, richard quest. richard, you heard this one of the things that stand out, there's many things that are strange, but what appea...