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Have been a little bit more specific on reporting what exactly we had. however, they may not have known what they had. they may have had information on their screens that indicated some sort of problem that they were trouble shooting through a check list. and at this point, you know, it's hard to say. but like i said, it disturbs me that something happened at cruise altitude. there's plenty of time to divert and get the airplane on the ground. something may very rapidly have occurred on board that airplane that went from bad to worse very quickly. >> explain a little bit more about cruise alti...

Have landed. but, you know, when you have one and you don't have the other and they were approximate, that is a concern. we certainly want to try to get to that as soon as possible. if the casing itself was breached obviously we're not under water but still element can get there and you can degrade some information in there and we want to try to get that as quickly as possible. >> as that plane was dropping at relatively rapid 4,000 feet a minute or so the pilots were not making any turns. what does that say to you? >> well you know, just to step back for a second and look at a scenario that w...

Computers have over ridden the pilot's inputs in cases of extreme weather. actually caused incidents and accidents. >> you mean after reaction from the pilots may have exceeded the allowed parameters. >> exactly right. >> i push it too far forward, too far back. uh i'm over simplifying. >> yes. >> in those cases, is that unique to the fly by wire air bus approach as opposed to the boeing approach which doesn't have the fly by wire traditionally here? >> most new aircraft now do have fly by wire. it has increased the safety of oh flying commercially multi fold. however, there are specific insta...

And the seat of your pants, but planes aren't like that. planes are engineered to do so much more and we had several accidents where, you know, it was blamed they said pilot suicide, it was a rutter deflection or they said it was an intentional action or a bomb and it wasn't, it was an exploding fuel tank. i'm reluctant to say and assume that somebody did this just based on past accident investigation. so much can go on on these wonderful, modern planes but when it goes wrong, it can go wrong without any pilot input. >> because we have all this technology on board and because there are these r...

Link between the cockpit controls and the flight controls on the tail, the rudder and the wings. what happens is is the pilot controls the control wheel and the control yoke and the throttles are connected to flight computers that interpret the pilot's input. if the computer accepts the inputs it then transmits that data to the aircraft flight controls. what happens is some pilots have reported loss of control of the aircraft without any pilot input. this has been a problem dogging the airbus series since its inception and fundamentally these computers have computer code just like every other ...