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We have not heard them. i want to hear it from the point of departure through good night and supposedly another aircraft trying to relay to them and by one account there was a mumble in reply. that could be very telling right there. we haven't really seen much about the maintenance records of the aircraft. was there any problem with the pressurization system. an important question potentially. we've seen that happen with the helio crash and payne stewart crash and the people who flew with the two guys in the cocook cockpit and the ten flights prior. was there anything unusual about how they fl...

Circuit breakers for that equipment disabled the equipment. so it -- but it's implausible that the pilots did this. from the standpoint of somebody -- if you notice the time between the circuit breakers being pulled, if it were circuit breakers and the transponder going off is a few minutes. that's the few minutes that someone has to look at the overhead panel, find the line that the circuit breakers were on, identify it and read it with the dark, the printing is very small. and pull those circuit breakers. so, you know, the excursion from 45,000 to 23,000 tells me that's where the struggle wa...

>> that -- >> the pressurization system goes to a certain maximum differential. it would be up against the stops -- >> when we hear 45,000 feet does it sound like somebody who doesn't know what they're doing? >> this sounds like there is a problem with the systems perhaps. anything could be possible. but the guts of that airplane, the compartment down below, below the galley door, if something malfunctioned of a serious nature, a fire, they would have control issues. >> and "the wall street journal" reported that the satellite was still picking, this airplane up to five hours beyond the time i...

>> that -- >> the pressurization system goes to a certain maximum differential. it would be up against the stops -- >> when we hear 45,000 feet does it sound like somebody who doesn't know what they're doing? >> this sounds like there is a problem with the systems perhaps. anything could be possible. but the guts of that airplane, the compartment down below, below the galley door, if something malfunctioned of a serious nature, a fire, they would have control issues. >> and "the wall street journal" reported that the satellite was still picking, this airplane up to five hours beyond the time i...