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If someone wanted to make a political statement they would make it clear they brought the plane down, which was not the case in this case. when you look at mechanical failure, the longer we look at this, where are you leaning in terms of what's most likely? >> it seems to be that there's more evidence towards the mechanical. initially i had ruled that out simp simply because for this to have happened would be highly irregular with that aircraft. the 777 has three buss, every electrical system, any item within that cockpit can be transferred from one of those buss to the other. the other three ...

Very long. >> no. >> you get 10 to 15 minutes depending on how full you are. is that enough? is there anything that can be done about it? >> that isn't enough time to bring a plane down in a planned kind of emergency. what's important to recognize as a crew member, if there would be some kind of explosive rapid decompression, that the time of useful consciousness at 43,000 feet would just be about 10 seconds. >> yeah, not good. hey, nice to see you. really appreciate it. best of luck. >> thank you very much. >> asked you earlier to tweet us about what investigators might be overlooking here. i...

Everything that could have been a plan. we have to point out there is no proof that the pilot was implicated in this. if he were he could look at something like this, the route. was there a route that he was using or planning. was it something that took him across the northern pakistan region or the indian ocean. something else is the ability to take a sudden dissent. if we try to put the plane down, get it low to the ground, even drop the landing gear, all of this would be somehow monitored by the flight simulator. it is all going to be in there. whatever happened to the aircraft, this could ...

It only had 7 1/2 hours of fuel to barely get to you dubai. you look at that scenario and it's hard to figure out what the goal was. >> it's very difficult to know at this stage. we don't know if it was a deliberate act. we don't know yet. we don't know if they were trying to take the plane down, whether or not there was a struggle or they were aiming for some other target. that's unknown right now, erin. i think it's becoming more clear this plane just didn't have the at electrical failure and started to keep on flying straight. we know that the did not happen. >> we'll talk to a pilot in a m...

Terrorist group, if it was an al qaeda or jihadi terrorist group, it would be unlikely they would target a flight leaving malaysia. they would target a western airline. if it was chinese separatist, the plane was going to beijing, they have shown little or no ability to operate outside china, and they haven't been particularly sophisticated. certainly not sophisticated enough to bring down an airline, not ruling it out. the universal people and groups that might want to do this, i don't think is large in terms of either intention and cape ability, you need both intention and capability, and i ...