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These standards and really develop a threat model so they can defend against it. >> it's scary because the report says it's possible. this is one of the key things i noticed. someone on the plane or on the ground could hack into the flight control systems. to me that's a game changer in a lot of waz, not least of which is the fact a terrorist can take down a jet without having to be onboard. without having to be willing to kill yourself to do it. not like 9/11 where they had to get past security and go through that process and be willing to die themselves. doesn't that raise the risk there wou...

Aviation industry. i think it all came together when this pilot, i think, attempted to top an active thunderstorm that was not mature but still growing and growing in violence. >> and when you say growing in violence, people think about a thunderstorm and they say, well, aren't planes equipped to fly in thunderstorms, aren't they made to be safe enough to fly in thunderstorms? but what we're understanding is particularly in this part of the world, those thunderstorms can be so incredibly violent they can break up a plane or make it uncontrollable. >> they're no different than any other part of...

Debris here, how far might it have traveled? they think they see a shadow in the water, suggesting they may have a good chunk of the fuselage identified. we will have to go down to probably remotely operate a vehicle and divers depending on the depth to determine what they have there. it's possible it broke apart into several pieces and what will be critical is to identify the tail section of the fuselage. that is where you will find the voice and flight data recorder. that will be the tale of this mystery. telling us what was happening with the flight control systems and what the conversation...

Activating it themselves when they wanted to make a right or left turn or a climb. >> just to clarify, other people are confused about this too. there's the cockpit voice recorder. that's where you hear the conversation. the black boxes we're talking about you can chart where the plane was going, what maneuvers it was making. >> where the thrust levers were, what speed it was traveling at, what altitude it was at and whether or not the aircraft was being manipulated by the pilots or a third party manually or by flight control systems. >> and so greg, on that question then of the cockpit voice ...

>> one of the wings, which has a winglet on it, actually sliced through the 737 wing. there was a lot of flight control systems that are damaged. it rendered the airplane incapacitated and uncontrollable, and as the 737 went out of control, of course, the aerodynamic forces actually caused it to start to break up in flight. >> everyone on board the legacy knows something bad has happened, but they don't know they've collided with another aircraft. they don't even know their plane is damaged, until joe sharkie looks out his window. >> i open my window shutter and look out, this is a sight i'll ...