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Get on a plane bound for the u.s., that includes checking all passenger and crew against the u.s. terror watchlist. okay, vulnerabilities still exist intelligence officials say the downing of metro jet was, in fact, an inside job, kristi, the authorities world wide have to zero in with secure access who can come in and out with their badges. >> we appreciate it so much, thank you. >> let's bring in cnn analyst peter bergen. i want to kind of flex out something that you brought up in the last segment. you mentioned egypt flight 990. the ntsb determined that was the result of a deliberate act in...

Investigating authorities in the u.s. and other countries if it were not the pilots, if it was someone else on the plane, would we have a sense of this at this point? >> you would think you would. miles said that correctly. just because we narrowed it down or authorities narrowed it down to the captain and first officer doesn't mean we've proven the point and no pilot wants that be the case. but, i think that in terms of the passenger mode i'm not totally satisfied we've gotten the conclusion on anything here. anything including what the propensity of the passengers were. a pilot had to do thi...

It is not measuring where it is on the plot. it knows it is on the line but it doesn't know where it is on the line. i guess one of the questions is, let's assume that the point of this was, pilot take over and like a flight 990 suicide. why not just put it in the drink right away? why fly it for six or seven hours? >> well, aviation, commercial aviation cannot stay in a vacuum. we need to find out what happened. air france 447 which crashed in the south atlantic, they searched for two years until they found that. and we've done it on other accident investigations. and terrorist acts. the pilo...

Physical actions of turning off the transponder is absolutely critical. it shows that someone in the flight deck, someone with training was able to do both functions. in between the two the crew signals all right, good night. that is damning evidence that indicates something was going on in the flight deck. >> you were saying to me before we went on the air. and you've been involved in these investigations. in addition to whatever they may be able to find on the ground, that they may do some analysis. these communications between cockpit and the ground? >> sure. you're going to look at, you'll...

That egyptair with the pilot did commit suicide. >> let me just briefly set this up if i can. egyptair, flight 990 crashed in 1999 off the coast new england. and it was later determined by the ntsb and you were leading the investigation, that it was pilot suicide. tell us what you did there and how you think that might apply here. >> the difference was, we had five different sets of radar, monitoring egyptair. we were able to recover the data recorder and the voice recorder nine days after the accident. as soon as we had that information, coupled with the radar data, we knew what happened. and...