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Apparently to use the restroom, that someone else must be in that cockpit. the ceo of lufthansa was saying that that's not something he thinks they should change though they will be looking into it. >> i find it absolutely remarkable. i can see no reason why you wouldn't have a second flight crew member a flight attendant, someone who is with the airlines in with the single pilot who is responsible for hundreds of lives. can you always suffer a medical event when you're alone. there could be an explosive decompression. there could be a lot of reasons why you would want a second person in there...

There could be explosive decompression as a result of some structural failure of the aircraft. everything flies around that's not tied down. it physically feels like it's punched. it's a physical event. if that's happened we expect the aircraft to have defuated deviated left to right. this is indication of some software failure in which there was an uncommanded control descent or perhaps incapacitation of some type for some reason whether through criminal intent by a crew member or passenger or by some other means, mechanical event or cascading series of mechanical failures. richard is right.

Been fully maintained. something that's happened at 38,000 feet -- as far as kploefb decompression -- explosive decompression, you can't rule out the possibility of a terrorist bomb. it's a possible. although they're treating it as an accident at the moment. the aircraft obviously hit in one piece and broke up because as somebody else said just before it is not scattered over a wide area which it would have been had it broken up at high altitude. it hit the ground at high speed and totally disintegrated. why didn't the pilots put up -- i suspect they were incapacitated. >> right. of course, we...

Trying to understand what the particular noises were. could it be a power up we simply don't know. what we do know and what mikey kay has very credibly reviewed is a that this aircraft didn't offer any distress signals and descended in a controlled fashion. between 38 and 42,000 feet the pilots have only a few seconds to don their oxygen masks if there's an explosive decompression, for example. did that happen? could that have happened? that is one possible scenario. we don't want to suffer from investigative bias another possible scenario is a terror or criminal act. there have been approxima...

So this is a widely used and very reliable aircraft. >> it's a great plane. it has one of the best safety records of any airplane ever built. it's a great machine. >> and how do you explain the fact that there was no automated distress signal, they were flying at 38,000 feet as francis francisryiry ver va was just showing us and descended over the course of nine or ten minutes in an orderly progression. >> that descent rate is really very ordinary. it's about the same rate that would happen on a normal flight. that's what is -- makes it appear it's not an explosive decompression or any other k...