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Until and unless they recover the flight data recorders, they're not going to know the real answers or what happened inside the cockpit. >> you talk about food poisoning. you talk about other things. maybe there were lithium batteries that knocked the pilots into unconsciousness. all right, jim clancy, thanks so much. >> fire, mechanical problem. it's all possibilities and so little evidence. let's bring in indra petersons. what we do know is what the weather in the search area looks like. >> right. it's such an unstable part of the earth. let's talk about what the weather looked like the last...

Which got the information from the plane, which is not communicating from anyone, but got interrogation from the plane's acars system, so they can pin point it's in the south indian ocean and know there's no chance it went to land anywhere. >> what would make it go south, what would make it make that turn? >> yeah, and that is just nobody can guess, really. but i do think that enough passed digging into the pilot and copilot, it's slow work and will need to go on with that, but i wonder if everyone was too quick to dismiss the idea of some other catastrophe happening in the plane, mechanical p...

Data now shows more conclusively or probably whatever the terms are that this is at the bottom of the indian ocean or do you want to see more? as an investigator i always want to see more. investigators use tried and true methodologies and procedures. that's based on years and years of experience and crashes and investigating these. but we are always looking for new ways to hone our skills to improve and expedite this process. so, i would always like to see more and that's going to continue on with positively identifying this wreckage, the debris, and then finding it at the bottom of the ocean...

Disclosing it, does that now pique your interest as a possibility of what went on here. >> not as much at this point in time. i have trouble getting around the conversation of the pilots. sothat this sequence this started sometime before that calm communication. >> meaning at probably 1:07. this conversation was at 1:19. all right. good night. but at 1:o07 the acar system was turned off. the communication system. >> right, right, right. >> is that what catches your attention? >> yeah. absolutely. if there was some sort of mechanical problem, some sort of a fire, there is enough time there for ...

Pings and potential sighting in the worst possible ocean in the world. >> let me weigh you in. should we know more at this point? could we know more? >> i think we could. michael brought up a good point. with air france we were getting data that was being downloaded almost continuously. so even though we never got all of the flight and of course it crashed and took us two years to get the black boxes to fill in the rest of the storyline. we were able to at least examine that information that was being downloaded to understand that they were having issues with the tubes and on board computers a...