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Tell him what position the aircraft is. flight 447 in that accident the air speed indicators were not working and he no idea what speed he was. whether he was under speeding or -- designee didn't know. sometimes you're in limbo up in the air. >> that's right. whereas in this case we don't know. your point was good we don't know what happened. people say why your speculating. why are you doing this? it's horrible for families. the reason we speculate is to assist in the finding of the aircraft. where is the aircraft. if it's a power on stall a deep stall like this one it could go in literally a...

Side of the plane that air flois in as -- flows in as well. the comparison is fair although the tubes that could be blocked are different. >> right, they are different. it's a different model, although both flights were airbus planes. jeff no may day call. no pan pan call which is a little lesser degree no distress call surprising? >> not really, in fact the case of airfrance 447, there also wasn't a may day call or a pan pan call. when a plane gets into danger into trouble, the pilot might have so much to do to try to immediately deal with that problem that they don't have time to prioritize ...

The surabaya international airport. this is where they are getting updates from airline officials and airport officials about the most current search efforts being updated on a regular basis. there's also a passenger manifest posted behind me and you see people coming up and looking at it. what struck me is when you go down the list you see families two, three, four five even six people from the same family on that passenger manifest list who were on that plane. we had a local producer who spoke one young lady an 18-year-old student. her fiancee was on that flight to singapore along with six m...

And what transpired once they had entered that severe weather. >> a lot of questions to be answered. bill savage thank you for helping us. up next the heartbreaking message from the pilot's daughter. plus lessons learned and the differences between this flight and the disappearance of flight 370. we're back in a moment. i've smoked a lot and quit a lot but ended up nowhere. now...i use this. the nicoderm cq patch with unique extended release technology helps prevent the urge to smoke all day. i want this time to be my last time. that's why i choose nicoderm cq.

Control. captain always has the ability to declare an emergency and do whatever he needs to do to maintain safety of flight. >> okay. so spencer tweeted, i could figure it stalling. but why could this plane not just steer down? do you think the engine could have been hit by something? >> well you know in a thunderstorm if they entered a thunderstorm the ingestion of precipitation and particularly hail may have damaged the engines, and caused the power interruption which would then you know necessitate a great deal of activity in the cockpit trying to restore their power. but, you know, until w...