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Mountain. these losses of air pressure happen several ways. there's a sudden loss of air pressure, it is catastrophic the plane breaks or less explosive loss of decompression, it inkpas tats the crew and slow decompression that can take ages to happen. it is very early in analysis of the flight. we have to zero in on this one moment, at the end of the cruise when it starts to descend. what caused it what was the reason to descend at that point, and why particularly this is fundamental, why was there no communication because radar controllers would have tried desperately to find out what was go...

Very mountainous area that this plane has gone down. jay, were you going to say something? >> yes, they would also need to try to get out some sort of a radio broadcast because you would want to let the airport know and the radar controllers know because that way they could assist in getting you on the best heading towards that airport. >> yeah christopher dickey joins our coverage. we were talking, when you see this area an area that is so part of -- that part of europe and italy and france this is very difficult mountainous conditions that rescuers are having to go into. >> they are putting ...

Supposedly were doing what they were supposed to do and they didn't work. so what i'm suggesting here is we know -- what are the facts? we know after the acar system went down the transponder was turned off, the last communication this plane made a 180-degree turn, basically. it flew back across the malaysian peninsula. they have military radar which tracked this airplane. they have primary radar hits until they got to the west coast of malaysia. at that point we have the north and the southbound route. now, how could that happen? >> yeah. >> well, "the new york times" reported today that ther...

Place between the regional radar controllers and the air traffic controllers at local airports. here is randy babbittt, the faa controller speaking this morning in atlanta. >> we also take to responsibility in the management side, in terms ever scheduling. we are going to work together. we've found through modern medicine and studies -- we are going to eliminate some of the things that can be fatiguing, change the way we schedule so it doesn't happen. again that accountability starts with all of us, starts with me and goes all the way down through the entire organization. >> reporter: babbitt ...

Traffic controllers, eric bitman is not surprised. he is a controller. >> the job is stressful. it makes you tired right there then you change to midshift, where you stay up all night long, stare at blank cope with no traffic. >> they stresses, such as single parenthood, day care issues and regular overnight shift and you have recipe for fatigue, with at least five controllers found sleeping on the job, the latest saturday in miami, secretary of transportation responded with a flurry of rule changes, that include no less than nine hours between shift, no swapping of shifts so controllers can e...