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>> let's talk about the next stages of this investigation then. we've heard from both the russians and the egyptian officials that terrorism cannot be a credible or reliable possibility for this. they're pointing to technical difficulties. beyond the -- >> yes. >> simply absence of another explanation, is there something that points to that, in the data that you're reviewing? >> absolutely. you know, the plane takes off. it flies for 22 minutes. and for some reason unknown, falls out of the sky. now, remember, planes are designed to fly. everything about the plane is designed to keep it in the...

Time. they're limited by their number of cycles, how many times they talk off and land, the airframe itself. but the engine themselves go for refurbishment on a very strict schedule. if the airline is following those rules, old is kind of a term that is a little different than your old car. >> because sometimes they'll put in new engines, right? >> absolutely. engines get changed out, things get refurbished. to say a plane is 29 years old, there are probably very few things on it 29 years old except for the airframe itself. so these things get refurbished over time as a natural course. and so ...

Especially the engine probably, because it may give us insight as to how this unfolded. it appears to have unfolded quickly. peach tree dekalb airport, where they took off, from is about a mile away if that. whatever happened, happened very fast. they came down on the highway, and it appears they hit the center median. as you already saw from that home video, i believe, just incredible fire. there would have been a lot of fuel for the flight. and there was heavy black smoke and not a whole lot that remained of the airframe after that. >>flames. according to flight aware, the plane was headed t...

Part of what they're doing now is going back and looking between areas, as they make the swaths. going back to make sure they didn't miss anything because it would be tragic to increase that search without knowing that you completely exhausted that search area the initial one. so they're doing that. they're very committed to. these are challenging things challenging side challenging depth of the ocean. talking an area the size of illinois here. now we're doubling that. now we have two illinoises next to each other. a huge task. i really admire them for continuing on. >> thomas are you convince...

The mind which get every single piece of wreckage we can, until we're sure we can narrow the scope of our investigation and search. jon: the french government was out almost immediately saying, terrorism was not a likely cause. do you share that belief? >> you know, it is very, very early on. i know one of the things that having watched you as wonderful to see is that you don't spend too much time speculating before the facts are in and i think that right now there's no real indication that there was any terrorism. i certainly would rely on the french government right now being on the ground a...