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After crossing the pond, the pilot reported smell of smoke and actual smoke in the cockpit but successfully landed the airplane. now -- >> were the transponders shut down in those two cases? >> well, here's the caveat. if you're over water and cannot land quickly, a fire can develop. there was an md-80 jet that has similar systems to the 777, similar complexity, similar redundancies, they were at the gate. it was an egypt air flight and the pilot reported smoke in the cockpit. it quickly developed into a fire and they evacuated all of the personnel. if that aircraft had been over the ocean, it...

Am i right about that? >> when you have a condition that causes an airplane to go basically dark and quiet suddenly, it can be a catastrophic event. it can indicate a loss of electrical power. and one of the things they look at is was it an in-flight breakup. if that occurred, then the debris field is likely to be very large, as light objects are carried by the wind and heavier objects fall on a much steeper path. this is some of the things that the investigators look at. now, if in fact it hit in a single piece, then all the debris will be in a much smaller area. >> captain cox, it's my under...

Call for alarm. one of the things we come back to is there's been no evidence of a distress call. what do you make of that? >> the boeing 777 went in service in 1995. it has a remarkably good in-flight service record. it has demonstrated over millions of hours that it's a well-designed, safe airplane. the fact that there was not a call to air traffic control could indicate a number of things. the pilots could become very busy very quickly, there could be a loss of electrical power. i don't put a huge amount of emphasis on the lack or the presence of a distress call. i look more for physical ev...

Television program, this is "meet the press" meet. good sunday morning. we are following the big weather story in the northeast as this weekend's huge winter storm blanketed the region from new york to maine. new york city is getting the worst of it all. more than three feet of snow fell in parts of connecticut, rhode island, and massachusetts. cutting power and downing trees. electrical power remains out in nearly 350,000 homes whereas the area this morning. so a lot of cleanup to do there. meanwhile, the political climate has our attention here in washington as the president prepares to ...

Outside of the dome. wbue is our fox affiliate there. electrical power went out at the super dome early in the third quarter. they had 13 minutes 22 seconds to play. and it was right at the end of a stunner for the baltimore ravens which have led this game pretty much from the start. jacoby jones had returned an opening kickoff for a second pass touchdown and there you had it he ran from one end of the field to the next and the lights went out moments later. the teams remaining on just the side lines of the field taken off the actual playing field but on the side lines now for nearly a half ho...