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Leases demands that the person who's leasing it or the company, the airline that's leasing it, maintain these planes at a very good -- at a very good record and the reason for that is because eventually the people who hold the lease, the people who own the plane, they actually want to go ahead and sell them at some point. so it's in everybody's interest to maintain these planes and ensure they're operating at peak capacity and ability. you know, there was some discussion about the rate of descent, 6,000 to 7,000 feet per minute. that's a good rate of descent, but not out of the realm of normal...

They're going to have to work through that, but if the reports that the pilots want to land, it says that there could be a technical issue on board. i don't -- i have not heard that they declared an emergency. a mayday call yet. the airplane starts down according to some of the websites, like flight 24. the airplane starts down at a descent rate that is high, but within the parameters of normal, around 6,000 feet a minute. airliners can descend at that rate. the biggest thing i have seen this morning that has me questioning is the ground speed slows significantly to values that are below norma...

Computers, any one of which can fly the airplane. the pilots are trained about the use and the nature of this airplane. it has enjoyed a very, very good long track record. it is widely determined to be a safe airplane. there are thousands of them flying every day to even insinuate that's a fly by wire problem here i think is very premature. the information we have is this. the airplane took off out of sharm el sheikh. it climbed to cruise altitude. there are conflicts reports if there was a call saying there was a problem on board. one of the -- i think it's flight aware 24 or one of the radar...

On your laptop or for $100 you can play a game of rand paul beanbag toss. and for $1,000 you can even have a bound copy of the u.s. constitution signed by none other than rand paul. on a sad note though seven people died yesterday morning when a small plane crashed on to an illinois field. they were returning from the ncaa men's basketball championship in indianapolis. among those killed two were from the illinois state university. deputy director of athletics aaron leech and men's basketball associate head coach torrey ward. authorities believe the heavy fog and light rain may have been par...

Is the ground speed because we are pulling it off of data was consistent, but the question is why didn't level out well above that terrain. again, they would have had warning and nobody the terrain and the on board information would have told them to pull up caution, caution, whoop whoop, and they didn't react to that. we don't know whether they were physicallyin cap as ated or couldn't command the airplane to recover. >> thank you both for your expertise. next up, we'll turn to the other breaking news we opened with this hour. the president and president gauning talking about troop levels a...