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Taking engines out and having a loss of power. so it's definitely a part of the investigation to help searchers find wreckage. but then later in the investigation is when they will look at that as a contributing cost. >> and then the air bus 320 has a so-called ditching switch for water landings. what are the conditions in which that would be used. >> i'm not a pilot. i don't fly for commercial airlines. so i can't address that specially. they subsequently drown when the aircraft sinks. that makes sure it doesn't

Morning getting more details. base ond the information that you have where do you believe this plane, this missing plane could be? how soon do you think rescuers can get to it? >> obviously, suzanne, that's a difficult question. one thing i will say about this particular type of aircraft the air bus, it does have what is called a ditching switch. this is a mechanical device that can be activated by the pilots and it seals the bottom of the aircraft if they were able to get it on to the water it should float for a considerable period of time. so that's one advantage of the air bus over other ty...

Air alger, and that north african case the african broke out in flight. there is another one that's a good one. it is equipped with what is called a ditching switch. remember sully sullivan landed in the hudson. it turns the fuselage into a boat. it makes it water proof. if they got the aircraft down on the water safely it should be floating and we can only hope for that martin. we don't really know what the status of the aircraft is. >> obviously, an example you give of the former. what about the issue of lightning? i know you have talked about the

Happened. the only potentially good piece of information is this airbus 320 is equipped with something called a ditching switch. and basically, if they had to set it down in the water, i'm not saying they landed intact, but if they had to there's a switch you can throw. and this is of course the same kind of aircraft that sully sullenberg landed in the hudson with. he didn't have time to throw the switch but the aircraft will float. so there might possibly be a good outcome. we don't know that this aircraft broke up in flight like the air algier flight. or in the case of the air france crash i...