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Plane. but this one by a 20-year-old pilot. he says the loss of transponders and communication makes perfect sense in a fire. and there was most likely an electrical fire. it was probably a serious event and the flight crew was occupied with controlling the plane and trying to fight the fire. what i think happened is the flight crew was overcome by smoke and the plane continues on the heading probably on autopilot until it ran out of fuel or the fire destroyed the control surfaces and it crashed. >> yeah, i mean, you know, it's interesting. we're speculating on speculation here. invariably we'...

One-by-one until you have isolated the bad one. if they pull the buses the plane would go silent. as for the flight's ultimate end he suggests that the flight crew was overcome by smoke and the plane continued until it ran out of fuel or the fire destroyed the control surfaces and it crashed. joining me now is former fbi special agent and chief operating officer of the sufan group don berrelli who is a retired captain. the practicality of this latest theory you would turn off the communications your first and foremost priority is aviate and navigate as they say in the business. how does this t...

Plane they don't tell the story. back with me now is bill nye. bill, you went to boeing and also worked separately on black boxes. tell me your experiences and what you believe is the importance of the black box. >> the black box means you don't know what is inside, that is all. in here, it is bright orange so if you're a diver under water you may find them. or on land you can find them. the idea is, you heard of the flight data recorder. the least important thing it keeps track of is the voices in the cockpit, it keeps track of all the other data on the plane, the control surfaces, the thrott...

With t will the so-called black boxes answer the questions? bill nye is back with me. tell me what is your experience and what you make of the importance right now of one of these. >> the black box means you don't know what's inside, that's all. they're bright orange, so you are a diver under water, you might find them. but the idea is, you've heard of the flight data recorder. it keeps track of all sorts of data on the plane, the position of the control surfaces, the tloltd and so on. the thing in this thin outer shell is a virtually indestructible cassette that houses the information. and al...

Fly-by wire systems has a manual backup where the pilot can disconnect the fly by wire system and fly the plane using mechanical links between the control surfaces and the cockpit. so it remains to be seen what happened to this particular airplane. but there have been in-flight problems in that regard. >> anthony, also, you know, the plane took off from egypt and it was going to russia. but the communication seems to be a little confusing. egypt has said they know it's crashed, they're recovering body, they have sent ambulances to the area. yet we're not getting confirmation from the russian a...