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Flight attendant to do when she or he goes into the cockpit? are you asking them to have an assessment taking place of the pilot's mental health now? it's a very unfair situation. it really is a band-aid. this policy has to be looked at in a more comprehensive way and just having a cabin crew member sit in the cockpit, that was fine when they were there for just a health problem, if the pilot had it. it's not so good when you are asking that person to intervene potentially in a life-threatening situation. >> david? >> peter, maybe i misspoke then. that's not what i was saying. what the purpose...

Were going on or any information from the flight data or the voice recorder. you've heard that suspicion as well. >> that's right. that the recorders may never be found. and then if they are, the voice recorder part of the recorders is probably going to be written over and there will be no cockpit voice recording that occurred at the time of the initial turning off the transponders and the acars stopping the broadcast and the plane making the left turn, then other left turns, all of that will be lost from the voice recorder. these pilot suicides in the past, it was determined by the voices, th...

Precedent for some kind of foul play motivation by a pilot and a co pilot. there's been pilot suicides, hijackings, but as far as i can tell, we've been unable to find evidence that anything like this what is being alleged by malaysian authorities has ever happened before. >> there's one important difference between what seems to have happened here and those other incidents that you've talked about, this plane lost all contact. in the case of the other planes, the communications between the plane and the ground didn't get lost. the equipment was still working, they just couldn't raise any -- i...

Incapacitated. as far as i can tell, there's no precedent for some kind of foul play motivation by a pilot and a co phi lot. there's been pilot suicides, hijackings, but as far as i can tell, we've been unable to find evidence that anything like this what is being alleged by malaysian authorities has ever happened before. >> there's one important difference between what seems to have happened here and those other incidents that you've talked about, this plane lost all contact. in the case of the other planes, the communications between the plane and the ground didn't get lost. the equipment wa...

The two had terror ties. if flight 370 was a victim of terrorism, no group has come forward to take credit for the attack. and the pentagon, which has technology that can detect flashes around the world, has said there was no evidence of explosion. and if the plane was hijacked, well, where is it? theory two, pilot suicide. it is exceedingly rare, but there have been three suspected incidences of pilot suicides on international flights since 1 1997. most famously egypt air flight 990 which crashed into the atlantic in 1999 killing 217 people. >> fatal mystery of egypt air flight 999 now focusi...