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That somehow this crew was incapacitated. >> right away? >> incapacitated, you know so that points to the possibility of decompression of these pilots, every simulator session trained for that emergency, they have quick oxygen masks, they should be able to put them on in five seconds, at that altitude they have 30 seconds of useful consciousness. it's very difficult to explain. we have great authority. this mystery will be solved. >> talk, it happened when they reached their cruising altitude the highest that they were going to be, and about a minute or two after that this tragedy began, right...

That would be a very key bit of information for the investigation. >> miles, john brings up a great point. when you listen to the cockpit voice recorder when you pull this audio, you are not going to get a running narration from the pilots probably but there are a lot of other things that you can listen for that are informative. >> yeah. there have been cases, there's an accident we are familiar with where one of the windshields blew out in an aircraft which could clearly cause a decompression event, rapid decompression event. some sort of incapacitation or partial incapacitation of the crew. ...

If in fact the last eight or ten minutes of that cockpit voice recorder has no sound from human beings the pilot or co-pilot or anyone else for that matter, tell our viewers what that means. >> well it certainly fits a scenario where you had some sort of decompression event, wolf. some event where the pilots were overcome by hypoxia, lack of oxygen. we saw this crash, this type of crash a few years ago over greece. the helios air crash, decompression was gradual, the crew eventually lost consciousness and the plane flew on on auto pilot. however, it didn't go -- descend in an erratic way which...

Thorough and careful analysis to determine who is on that cockpit voice recorder and what are the sounds. because remember, the recording is for two hours. so it's possible they might be hearing the pilots sitting at the gate they might hear maintenance people in the cockpit, et cetera. every time the flip -- a switch is flipped in the cockpit, that kind of thing, they need to understand what are all those sounds. it's a very thorough audio-type type of analysis that goes on. this could take weeks, actually. they want to marry that up with the flight data recorder. it's not until you get both ...

Pilots trying to get the plane down because of some incapacity tating or critical event on board. we don't know what happened because there were no distress calls or mayday calls or nothing xgt but we're left to assume that something very serious happened because they were trying to get the plane down so quickly. here's the other thing that's per plexing. if you have a decompression event, if you lose oxygen in the cabin, generally you try toe get the plane down to 10,000 feet so people can breathe. why did the plane continue to descend? were those pilots in some way incapacitated? clearly tha...