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Thank you so much for being with us. so, john, we know the crash occurred about 20 minutes after take off from jakarta, and the boeing 737 only climbed to an altitude of out 5,200 feet. from what you have been able t piece together, what do you think may have happened here? >> you know, it's way too soon to tell. obviously these investigations take months, if not years, depending on how investigators -- what information investigators have at their disposal. getting the black boxes, examining debris, looking at radar tracks. now there is this immediate scramble to lockdown any and all informa...

Hours to come. now we have a scant amount of information to draw conclusions off of. what we do know is that this is a brand-new airplane,ust delivered several weeks ago from here in seattle -- actually, i saw it othe flight line unpainted actually before it was delivered. that was in late july. so, just to give you a sense of how new this airplane is to ryanair's fleet, it is quite unprecedented to have an accident this close to a delivery of an aircraft. certainly delivery of a new aircraft type like the boeing 737 max. >> it is very strange. and, of course, we see those pictures there of th...

Turn around but didn't declare a catastrophic emeency at that point, perhaps they thought the issue on board was something they could fix, and obviously sadly, that does not appear to be the case. so obviously we are waiting to get more information. it is comin in minute by minute. we have seen some photos as well of family members gathering at the airport in jakarta. obviously, as you can imagine, just a devastating time for them, and i'm sure they're just clinging to hope that perhaps somewhere in that debris there could be somebody found, a survivor and whatnot. based on those images of the...