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The details they've discussed, that this was not a deliberate act? >> there's a couple things and i'm really reaching. we need to rule it out. number one, this is the control yoke right here. this is how you fly the airplane, with just a joy stick basically. the thought is here, if he passed out and pushed that forward as he fell forward, it would have gone forward, initiated that rate of descent and overroad this, so the airplane would have continued down. even though it's set at zero, it would continue this trajectory. >> again, they still say, everything they know is that it is deliberate. ...

>> well, they would probably take the control yoke as they say and they would push it forward and then use the rudder pedals down here until it came to a stop. >> i asked him what the worst-case scenario could have been at laguardia. >> the worst-case scenario is where the aircraft fails, gets down in the dirt and gets into some type of a spin or even a cartwheel. >> with much of the fuel in the wings, that could spark a much larger fire. the laguardia accident isn't a first. in june 2007 a southwest 737 had a nose gear collapse in oakland, california. the pilot did have advanced warning then ...

That's the control yoke, right? that's the stick, that's what controls airbuses. they differ from boeing because in boeing both the pilot and the co-pilot can feel the pressure on the stick, megyn? in airbuses the other pilot in the plane can't feel the pressure so one doesn't know what the other is doing. that's part of it. airbus says absolutely not, we've been flying millions of hours and aviation experts agree that it was not the stick, but it's one thing they're looking at. megyn: wow. trace, thank you. details about the factors that may have led to this tragedy are outlined in the telegr...

Happened at altitude. the one thing as a pilot i would wonder as this flight is at altitude probably has the autopilot engaged so any inputs the crew is making is simply done by a dial. you're not using the control yoke to control the plane at that point. there are just dial inputs as you get instructions from air traffic control. when they were turned over to cyprus, they did not make the handoff, so the crew did not report into that new handoff and that's shortly there after when we saw the radar loss. >> thank you, all three, for that. melissa, we'll have much more on the breaking news thro...

Link between the cockpit controls and the flight controls on the tail, the rudder and the wings. what happens is is the pilot controls the control wheel and the control yoke and the throttles are connected to flight computers that interpret the pilot's input. if the computer accepts the inputs it then transmits that data to the aircraft flight controls. what happens is some pilots have reported loss of control of the aircraft without any pilot input. this has been a problem dogging the airbus series since its inception and fundamentally these computers have computer code just like every other ...