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Other guest said it is just as easy to make a radio control as to set the transponder. so that doesn't -- i don't think that means anything. pilots trained if you have a decompression problem to put on your oxygen mask the first thing you do then you start a rapid descent, you're required to descend to an altitude where no one needs oxygen in four minutes. this took eight minutes. >> to clyde's point, this terrain and the circumstances that the pilot would have been facing? >> he would have turned from the terrain and made a rapid descent, that's not what happened. clive, thank you very much a...

This in his spare time. we do that on a regular basis as part of our job. doing that on your spare time is very telling, very professional. >> is the simulator good for that kind of practice? >> that's what a simulator is for. >> if i said sudden decompression, something like that? >> let's do it. >> go ahead. set us up. tell us what happens. >> all right. we're at decompression, the airplane, we got a warning saying there's decompression problem. rapid or otherwise. we're basically going to try to get down as low as we can where the air is thicker and breathe without the oxygen masks. >> we w...

Thanks, barbara starr. let's look at the other side. the possibility that maybe there wasn't a villain, be it a potential hijacker but it was one horrific accident. joe johns, you've been looking into that for us. what is it about the flight path and behavior that tells investigators that it could be accidental as opposed to intentional. >> jim, this goes into the category of things that can't be ruled out as long as a black box is not recovered. a sudden change in direction suggests that something went wrong on the plane very rapidly. if that's true, the plane dropped altitude rapidly, that c...

bond hearing. >> and the oldest and most traveled space shuttle welcomed this hour at the museum where it will live out its days. more than 13 months after its final mission "discovery" on public display in a hangar near dulles airport in virginia. it's part of the national air and space museum, home to that stuff that won't fit in the building you've probably visited on the mall in d.c. "discovery" flew into dulles on tuesday and its sister shuttle "endevour" was bound for los angeles and "atlantis" kennedy space center in florida. we're following live pictures this morning. after...