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Islands? >> well, the andaman islands might be located along a route to a further destination. there's no way to tell that the andaman islands is the intended new destination. i did read the reuters report. one interesting thing was it said the radar plots of that target were going from way point to way point, which leads me to believe that an airway was reloaded in the flight management computer so that the airplane would track one of the published airways rather than if a destination only had been put in and direct to that destination had been entered, the aircraft would have crossed across ...

>> right. but if that happened, would there still be no way of anybody on board the plane indicating to the airline that there was this problem going on? are you assuming that there's been some catastrophic fault maybe involving lack of oxygen or something which means no one is in capacity able to do that? >> well, i don't know what happened to the crew or anyone on board. that's not part of my theory. but if there was a certain electrical malfunction that took out both the transponder and the flight management computer, it could also take out other communication aspects, radios, automatic dia...

You bet. now if you like that, press the red button on top. ♪ how did he not see that coming? what's in your wallet? asiana airlines flight flying low and slow. a pilot with little experience flying 777s. is he to blame? deen cox has flown 777s for years joins us. >> good evening. nice to see you. >> tell me, a slow landing in a 777, don't you know coming in whether you are going too slowly or not? isn't it evident in the cockpit? >> no, it should be extremely evident. the flight management computer is set, and then the throttles

At the flight management system and flight management computer. the cockpit configuration and there has been a lot of discussion about stabilizized approaches and we'll be looking at that closely. we do hope to interview the crew within the next few days. we have a power plant team and they are looking at engine. they will be looking at the general conditions and taking a lot of photographs. they can tell through their examinations whether or not the engine is rotating at the time of the crash. they will be looking to document that and the condition and evidence if there was any fire that may ...

They're going to be looking very close at flight training and operations manuals, at the crew's experience. the system and the flight management computer. the cockpit configuration and there's been a lot of discussion about state and there's been a lot of discussion of stabilize approaches and we're going to be looking at that very closely. we do hope to interview the crew within the next few days. we have a power plants team and looking at the engines, they're documenting general conditions, taking a lot of photographs. they can tell through their examinations whether an engine is -- the engi...