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Have necessarily noticed it until they were actually able to the mountains outside the windows. that dispenses one of the theories about what happened that it was a catastrophic failure in the air. that the tail fell off or a wing tore off. if that happened the plane would have come down more quickly in less controlled fashion. the debris would have been scattered over a much wider area on the ground. so if that's not what happened what are some other possibilities? well every analyst we've talked to said look at the flight pattern of this plane. it is a direct descent that seems controlled. 4...

Descend from c no reported weather issues? %-pwasita mechanicalailure? pilot error? cnn's tom foreman runs down some of the possibilities in our virtual studio. >> this descent was somewhat rapid but not so fast that anybody in the cabin would necessarily have noticed it until they were actually able to see the mountains right outside the windows. and that sort of dispenses one of the theories about what happened that it was a catastrophic failure in the air, that the tail or wing tore off. if that would have happened the plane would have come down much more quickly. the debris would have been...

Point where they just can do nothing else with it. the plane plunged about 18,000 feet in some 80 seconds into the water, killing everyone on board. you can see the signature sign here. when the plane is completely uncontrollable and down it goes. let's consider another possibility here. this is a swiss airplane that went down off nova scotia. in this case they saw smoke in the cockpit. they started dealing with it and then it turned into a full-on fire. this was a slowly evolving problem. they kept trying to deal with it for quite some time. let's take a look at that flight pattern. in this c...

On the ground. so if that is not what happened what are other possibilities? every analyst said look at the flight pattern. it is a direct descent that seems very controlled a straight line no sign of anything unusual. that would be consistent with the crew trying to get to a lower altitude and deal with some sort of problem. but we still don't know what that problem would have been. and if they had this kind of control, why wouldn't they have been veered away and gone to some of the airports nearby that they might have been able to reach safety. that brings up the possibility of what if they ...

They know about where they know why a plane went down. for example, they might look at something like alaska air. the alaska air crash was a big mechanical failure. there was a large thing called a gateway and it took away the how the plane was pitching up and down. look at what happened with that flight. as they fought to control the plane you could see it pitching up and down until finally they reached to point where they couldn't control it anymore. it plunged some 18,000 feet in a few seconds. everyone passed away. they were dealing with an evolving emergency. tried to make an emergency la...