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Estimated cost to scramble the fighter jet is $10,000 an hour. there is interesting sound on this. doug mckelway has this on d.c. looks like fighter jets weren't really required for the lean and the slap so true, shep. nobody wants to take chances when you have all night. flight 990 had just taken off outside dull dulles when a passenger reclined his seat and the guy behind him lost his cool. pilot road the tower which understandably expressed some concern. >> united 990. supervisor wants to know if the passenger is secured. >> negative. the passenger is not secured at this time. >> in the pos...

The question in who was behind that. there are a lot of warning signs along the way. the fact the trans ponder was turned off, the flight pattern changed abruptly. we have two iranians with stolen passport that's were not checked with interpol which we would have done in this country. one-way tickets bought with cash that the hijackers do, there are a lot of questions raised. one thing is very clear, chris. this was an intentional, deliberate act that unfortunately probably killed 239 people. >> as we said, they're now focusing on the crew and the passengers. any evidence that you have heard s...

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...

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...

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 it was clear that the pilot, the...