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Crash to oversee the emergency operation. emergency personnel sifting through the wreckage, trying to find black boxes, trying to find bodies. over a dozen bodies have been brought to cairo. right now, they're going through the really gruesome task of trying to identify the people, so they can be reunited with their loved ones. this plane took off from sharm el sheikh, was in the air about 20 minutes, hit the cruising altitude of over 30,000 feet. that's when they lost contact, lost radar with it. so those black boxes will be instrumental in trying to figure out what exactly took place to have...

Analyst, les opand. he's a pilot. a lot of these details can't be confirmed, but 20 minutes into flight, you described earlier at 30,000 feet, that is a calm space. very seldom do really big problems occur there, especially without a pilot being able to convey that. so, from what you've heard, do you have kind of a gut sense of the direction this investigation might go? >> you know, it's hard to say. we've been saying all along, fredricka, you know, we're at the speculative point. this is a crash investigation. and they're going to follow iko standards, the egyptians. they'll bring in third pa...