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Odd jobs behind my house. i saw a plane passing by. i said "it's a bit low." the when i discovered a plane had crashed, i thought of this right away. >> of course we've heard from those witnesses on the ground. just imagine what the horrified passengers must have seen. >> our tom foreman looks at that and what may have caused the plane to crash. >> reporter: this descent of 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 outside the windows. that sort of dispenses one of the theories about what happen...

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 fell off or a wing tore off. if that would have happened, the plane would have come down much 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 about this has said look at the flight pattern of this plane. it is a direct descent that seems very controlled, 400 to 500 miles an hour the who...

Captain. this is a workhorse plane, not a plane known to have tremendous problems. it has problems but nothing out of the ordinary as far as we know. if you look at the flight pattern of this plane, ashleigh, that's where the mystery comes in because everything looked normal. this is the speed of the plane here in red. the blue is the altitude of the plane. and all of this looks perfectly fine. along in here, the plane was going somewhere around 500 miles an hour plus which is perfectly normal. it lost a little bit of speed right in here. nobody knows exactly why or what that was about. and he...

If you fly into this portion of france and into the french alps here you can see they were flying at a serious mountainous area here. the alps are shorter than the rocky mountains but still substantial mountains out there and if we look at what happened in the course of this flight you can see if this is the correct reading and the truth is there can be some anomalies in here so we'll have to find out more details. red is the air speed and blue is the altitude. you can see that the flight pattern looked really quite normal all of the way up through here. nothing unusual around this as it reach...

Search team says the plane missing airasia plane and its 162 passengers are likely at the bottom of the java sea they have not given up. the search will resume again at daybreak with a very expanded area. we have cnn tom foreman joining us from washington with a look at what search crews will be up against. >> they are up against an awful lot of territory. take a look at the flight pattern over the java sea. you see these models of planes. in reality they are merely specs out here. look at the search area. this is the seven zone map. here's a sense of size. if you look at this area up here thi...