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Not the pilot, does your attention turn to the copilot? >> like i said, u unlawful human interference, a human is involved. >> erin burnett is going to have more at the top of the hour. how significant are the interviews of the friends of those inside the cockpit and the cabin? >> you have to take them into account. you have to get a picture of who was in the cockpit. is this someone who could have acted irrationally. we've got a great picture so far growing on the captain and a little lesser on the copilot and they look like decent reasonable people without any strikes against them. so the my...

>> and in all your experience, if it was some kind of mechanical failure, i.e. an accident, what would cause such a catastrophic failure that no one was able to make any kind of distress signal and there would be no trace of it? >> well, i've been running that past my brain now ever since this thing happened. there's one possibility would be a total electrical failure, which it's very very hard to imagine. because they have so many generators coming from different places. they even have -- if all the engine generators fail, they still have what's called a rat. that's the generator that literal...

If it was some kind of mechanical failure, i.e. an accident, what would cause such a catastrophic failure that no one was able to make any kind of distress signal and there would be no trace of it? >> well, i've been running that past my brain now ever since this thing happened. there's one possibility would be a total electrical failure, which it's very very hard to imagine. because they have so many generators coming from different places. they even have -- if all the engine generators fail, they still have what's called a rat. that's the generator that literally falls out of the bottom of t...

I know they are different than the ones that drop down for passengers are they right by the knees or where are they located? >> to the left of the knee. you can put on the oxygen masks in about a second. any time you have a problem in an airliner, you have to identify what the problem is as fast as you can. this crew did a fabulous job and the testimony from the various passengers confirmed that. brilliantly executed emergency decompression. you used to, but not anymore.