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This is what we call the control stick. judge jeanine: am i precious that button. >> we may press it later but we don't need to press it now. judge jeanine: between all of would you would see on an old airplane, the dials. none of that is visible on this f-35. is this a new way to fight? is this offering us the ability to stay safer? >> it's also a new way to think. >> your mission is to attack a control tower at an enemy airfield. we are going to do that with 2,000 pound bombs we have internal to the aircraft. this is what you will be using to drop. these circles, they are squares with circle...

This is what we call the control stick. judge jeanine: am i precious that button. >> we may press it later but we don't need to press it now. judge jeanine: between all of would you would see on an old airplane, the dials. none of that is visible on this f-35. is this a new way to fight? is this offering us the ability to stay safer? >> it's also a new way to think. >> your mission is to attack a control tower at an enemy airfield. we are going to do that with 2,000 pound bombs we have internal to the aircraft. this is what you will be using to drop. these circles, they are squares with circle...

One can understand the larger aspects of this horror, would the flight data recorder give us that information that this man actually was on the wheel? he was at the yolk and took it into the mountain? >> in this particular case, the control stick, the side stick. yes, it should indicate that data, that he might have said, you know what, i'm going to fly an airplane for one last time. and he may have very well clicked off the auto pilot. and used the mode control as a reference. >> so distressing. no matter how this happening, it is terribly distressing. we're watching the live microphones in m...

Doesn't matter. i'd also like to correct the notion that this has suddenly become a criminal investigation. every air crash where it's not obvious what happened, like the plane off the runway in laguardia in the ice. every one is a criminal investigation simultaneously conducted with the mechanical and engineering investigation, as to whether the plane had mechanical issues. they don't wait and sit around for somebody to tell them they think this is a crime. often they don't know that for weeks or months. in the case of mh370, they don't know it for sure even now. normal procedure is to immedi...

Door to let him back in. doesn't respond. >> on the other hand, i defer to the good doctor here. you have a medical emergency, a major medical emergency. >> just to be clear, what you're saying if someone had a medical emergency could the plane have done what dit if someone was incapacitated? >> what happened was it could be that in this aircraft if you push it forward just a little bit on this control stick and let it go it will go back to the neutral position but the aircraft will continue in the commanded forward. it could have been bumped forward. it continued. however to be able to do tha...