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Aircraft wasn't navigated. >> it didn't drop like a rock there was time. >> appeared there was some controlled descent, power on or power off, we don't know. it would also -- it is also perplexing why in the area where the aircraft would have started descending, which would have been perpendicular to marseilles and nice why those airports weren't chosen. absence of radio call and the fact that the aircraft wasn't navigated off the initial flight path are two very big questions investigators will be looking to try and ascertain. >> you called it exact. yesterday at the same time we had no pictu...

Need to see exactly what the pilot is doing. i want to see what the pilot is looking at and commenting on and see what movements or switches they may be manipulating but i don't necessarily need to see the pilot himself or herself in the cockpit. >> but the fact is that if he is incapacitated, if they pass out, then you don't know what they're seeing. but you certainly don't know they weren't seeing anything. >> well you have to be careful with that because if they're passed out, they're not going to see anything, not making any movements, and they're not talking amongst themselves so there ar...

Cockpit. giving them hundreds of pieces data parameters how this plane was performing. we're talking about alt, altitude, speed, vertical acceleration, head, pitch, roll. looking at engine performance, autopilot. whether there was, in fact a cabin pressure issue. all should be included in the flight data recorder. black boxes, there are various forms of black boxes. they don't all look like this come in various shapes and sizes. so i can't tell you exactly what that one looked like on that particular a320 but all do essentially the same thing. the key will be recovering that data as best they ...

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