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To go along with this. >> good day. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. we begin with breaking news where a computer failure snarled thousands of international flights. tom costello is here from washington and carry simmons in london. first to you. what happened and what was the result and how has it been fixed? >> this happened in an air traffic control center out of london. it's suddenly experienced a power failure. when that happened the control center and i will let carry get into the details of what the impact is. when that went down, london's airspace was at that moment kind of stuck. the...
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That's extremely unusual and very suspicious. >> i was speaking with you earlier and you said that the idea that both pilots become incapacitated, natural causes, is not really likely, what's the likelihood that an electrical failure could have caused all this and what could have caused this electrical failure? >> this is not -- the 777 won't have a computer failure. the pilots even at the very least of everything failing would be back to the battery bus. the aircraft was actually lost 40 minutes after takeoff and the south vietnamese radar took -- 120 miles off the coast of south vietnam. so ...