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We are going to be looking closely at flight training and operations manuals, at the crew's experience, the flight management system and the flight management computer. the cockpit configuration. there has been a lot of discussion about stabilized approaches and we are 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 taking a look at the engines. they are going to be documenting general conditions, taking a lot of photographs. they can tell through their examinations whether or not the engine was rotating at the ti...

To us. we look at it. if we like it, we wilco it and that sends it back to atc saying that that we're happy with it, we accept it, we can print it so we have a hard copy of it. and in some airplanes that are properly equipped, it can be directly located into the flight management computer and the crew doesn't have to make any manual entry what's over. >> make your job a lot easier? >> much easier. and safer. >> thanks so much. suzanne, back to you. >> all right, thank you very much. very interesting. more of our in-depth coverage tomorrow. during this hour we're going to talk with pilot avia...

It says that something went on in that airplane. they did not or could not communicate via voice but it was electrically powered. it says it went to given points in space known as waypoints. that says the likelihood was that they used the flight management computer. somebody had to know how to program that. now, that's about as hard evidence as we have. >> what does that hard evidence tell us, to me, to everybody watching right now? what does it say could have happened? >> you know, there's so many speculations. i've been an accident investigator for 30 years and it says to me keep your mind o...

Evidence. it says that something went on in that airplane. they did not or could not communicate via voice but it was electrically powered. it says it went to given points in space known as waypoints. that says the likelihood was that they used the flight management computer. somebody had to know how to program that. now, that's about as hard evidence as we have. >> what does that hard evidence tell us, to me, to everybody watching right now? what does it say could have happened? >> you know, there's so many speculations. i've been an accident investigator for 30 years and it says to me keep y...

Is the acars system. >> that's not something they would typically turn off. my understand that involves pulling circuit breakers which are on the roof of the airplane. you would have to know what you're looking for. that's not something a pilot would typically deal with. >> this model of plane is relatively new. >> 777 came out in 95. a flew on the inaugural commercial flight on united airlines, they were the first customer. they updated, there's a 300 model and 300 e.r. the planes are heavily electric right now. the circuit breakers are key but the transponder is interesting. you asked about ...