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Out a bomb, an explosion on board? someone tweeted me an interesting point about the fire on board. if there had been a fire, how could a plane that has a fire ripping through it carry on flying for hours on end? it doesn't seem feasible. >> these airplanes are made to withstand a lot. look at the aloha accident. that time flew for plenty of time. >> so it could have a fire on board for six hours? >> in that case, it could. that's why smoke is more likely than fire. >> is a bomb ruled out at this stage, and if so, why? >> a bomb of any size that would take that aircraft down is out of the ques...

And the ntsb has already weighed in with it's experts. people have taken that inmarsat data, we have a fairly high degree of confidence in it. they have drawn those two arcs and gotten away from the northern one on the notion someone would have seen it on radar. we seem to have focused on the intersection of where the fuel would have run out after the last ping. the best experts, many of them americans, have calculated where this would be. let me just add one also one quick thing to pam brown's very good analysis on the lithium batteries. the ups cargo was a main debt cargo hold. this is since...