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Earlier and i mentioned earlier this morning and the plane seems to me to have had a pitch control problem that the elements on the plane were forcing the pilots to try to fight it to maintain control. so you will see the last radar return that was cemesent by tha aircraft was in a positive rate of decline, which was in this attitude before obviously they went on to crash. so there was a lot of oscillating going ing on and it seems to me that the pilots were struggling to maintain some pitch control over that aircraft. this is the data that we re looking at here, and it s showing everything from the last radar contact time, the altitude they re at, whether they re declining or desending and it does appear that the last 30 seconds or so of the flight things suddenly went very badly for them. it would appear that they re fighting to control this airplane. this is an airbus a-321. ....
Sheikh. i have seen conflicting reports that something happened at altitude with this plane that seems to suggest that there was a pitch control problem and the plane landing in rather hostile areas here and there was a huge clash there this summer so we don t suspect and have not seen any official confirmation that this was a sinister act brought about by terrorism. it appears that this might have just been a mechanical disaster and we ll know in short order, i suspect, what that was, richard. nbc s ron mott watching the details coming in to us. nbc aviation analyst, as ron mott has been reporting for us, those key pieces of data that we ....
Air. as tom and i spoke off and on the air today, something catastrophic apparently happened at altitude with this flight crew and this airplane that seems to have caused a sudden pitch control problem, where the captain and the co-pilot could not control the up and down motion of this aircraft because of data returns we ve seen from flight radar 24 show that the plane oscillating essentially in those last few seconds. i would imagine being a passenger on that flight would probably be pretty scary to have an aircraft going through that kind of movement on the way to the ground. and then of course we know that the radar control radar contact, was lost before the flight hit the ground. so whether there was a break-up of the aircraft, we don t know. there apparently was, according to our producer in cairo, a post-crash fire and many of the bodies succumbed to fire as well. so a lot more details coming out as we go forward in the morning, the afternoon. all right, also joining us at ....