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That's what i would be looking at. the abruptness of how quickly it was torn off and you can test it to see how it was twisted and working and let go. there's a lot of information that needs to be gained. as far as identification, it is out of the odds to say it's not from a 777 or not from mh370. >> les, the flap is used to help control the airplane. what are investigators going to be looking at to, i guess, try to determine from this piece of debris what brought the plane down, really, in the end? >> well, this is, you know, as dave has been saying, this is still part of the investigation pr...

I would like to beg a point here beg to differ with mr. quest here. if the flaperon was stowed either turning the plane or slowing the plane down, if it was stowed it's less likely it was that way. it was deployed for it to slow down to fly more gently into the water. those are two very diverge enter directions. one could be an autopilot. the other is more nefarious. the fact that that piece is what we see is a clue. >> we now need to learn more about what the flaperon is and we're going to look at that through the show. thanks so much. next we're going to look -- look at these pictures. thi...

Danger then we do have policies that allow us to take that person out of circulation so to speak. so the big question is how is that communicated in lufthansa, what are their policies, was this doctor affiliated with the industry. we don't know these things but what we do know is that if a person does have dreadful psychiatric condition with thoughts of taking a plane down, clearly those kinds of things need to be communicated to superiors. >> how upsetting that investigators found those notes ripped up showing that he should not have flown that day. >> well, it dutz say something that he ripp...

And most people. so we need to find a balance. that's going to take mental health professionals to figure out what we need to do. >> how do you react back in 1989 when that egypt air guy, for whatever combination of reasons, he was praying 13 times to god as he brought that plane down, fighting the whole time with his senior 350i89 to bring the plane down, and he succeeded. what did you think when you heard that? wait a minute, what's going on here? we have guys who want to kill everybody on the plane, including themselves? we have to find a way to keep them out of that cockpit. >> that's righ...

System will not allow the airbus 320 to go under that. so, i mean, this was methodical. and had he not -- had the captain not left, he may have chosen another flight at a later date. >> so here's another question about this. and maybe this is a dumb question, but i'll ask anyway. i'm a little unclear how based on the streaming data plus the vocal recordings, they can be sure who is the pilot and who is the co-pilot in this scenario. >> well, they probably know the voices of the two. so, you know -- they're pretty -- i mean, this was a stunning announcement pip mean, to come out three days afte...