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>> smoke in the cabin. >> the plane crashed in the florida everglades. 110 people died. it led to new cargo hold safety rules. but not finding flight 370 or its data recorders could be a missed opportunity for change. >> whatever brought down that flight, whether it was fire, hijack, pilot suicide, explosive decompression, a bomb, whatever, it's important to find that out so we can fix it so it doesn't happen again. >> reporter: and it's security, too. the september 11th hijackings led to strengthened cockpit doors. the shoe bomber led to shoe checks. the aviation industry needs hard facts bef...

Laboratory on air canada flight 797. the plane landed but 23 people on board died. after that smoke detectors and automatic fire extinguishers were mandated in aircraft lavatories. in 1996 hazardous cargo on a flight caught fire. the plane crashed in the florida everglades. 110 people died. it led to new cargo hold safety rules. but not finding flight 370 or its data recorders could be a missed opportunity for change. >> whatever brought down that flight, whether it was fire, hijacked, pilot suicide, explosive decompression, a bomb, whatever, it's important to find that out so we can fix it so...

Deliberately brought down flight 370. >> they just don't fallout of the sky and it it would really take multiple failures of multiple systems for know believe that this is what could have occurred. >> reporter: the idea of a deliberate act is not being ruled out by the u.s. in part because of what evidence has not emerged. if the plane was in trouble, experts say, there should have been time for the pilots to send a mayday after the plane turned and flew west, but no call was heard. so was it a terrorist attack? u.s. officils say there's been no claim of responsibility so for now they don't th...

That means at some point within that time period the plane was flying at 12,000 feet. not below radar but extremely low for a large plane. joining me now is martin savidge and the pilot. welcome back, gentlemen. >> reporter: good morning, carol. >> let's talk about that drop of 12,000 feet, martin. take it away. you're great with this. >> reporter: right. well, all i will say we'll show you two jones. basically the very same thing. i want seems this latest information is being interpreted in two different camps in two different ways. the first one is it would support some kind of emergency in ...

Anything that you just finished with "all right, good night." sloppy, perhaps. >> i want to go back to this. and here is -- about the pressure in the plane and the altitude. and how would you -- talking about this whole ghost plane scenario. someone, a pilot, sent me this saying how long someone would have to put on their oxygen mask if they were at 35,000 feet. if you're at 15,000 feet, you have 30 minutes or more. is that right? if you're at 18,000 feet, 20 minutes or -- let's see. 20 minutes to 30 minutes. if you're at 22,000 feet, 5 to 10 minutes. then it goes exponentially. usually they f...