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Configuration for use as a flap, to slow the plane done that lead you down the road to something nefarious. was somebody trying to fly the plane in as slowly and gently as possible. >> why would somebody try to do that? >> well, these -- as i have said frequently there is no black box for the human mind. why would somebody potentially, this is one of the theories that are out there, many theories, very few of which can be discounted. one of the theories was that a person on board the aircraft, either a member of the crew or some other individual, wanted this plane to disappear the if you wante...

In france germany and spain are looking through all sources of intelligence and cross-referencing the passenger manifest to see if there is anyone of interest that the u.s. is aware of who may have been on that flight flight 9525 according to two law enforcement officials i have been speaking with. what we have learned is so far, preliminarily in the process of running these names through data bases, it hasn't turned up anything that stands out or anything linking these passengers to criminal activity. we know that this process is ongoing and officials say the bottom line there's just not clar...

That would be a very key bit of information for the investigation. >> miles, john brings up a great point. when you listen to the cockpit voice recorder when you pull this audio, you are not going to get a running narration from the pilots probably but there are a lot of other things that you can listen for that are informative. >> yeah. there have been cases, there's an accident we are familiar with where one of the windshields blew out in an aircraft which could clearly cause a decompression event, rapid decompression event. some sort of incapacitation or partial incapacitation of the crew. ...

Between the routine communication and the descent. why was there no distress call from the cockpit in. >> i think they were incapacitated or for some reason to respond and control the plane. for what the plane did in the final few minutes, i don't think a conscious pilot was doing it. >> reporter: what could have caused the pilots to lose consciousness? two of the theory rapid decompression or a fire in the cockpit. one official speaking to the new york times refuses to rule out terrorism saying we don't have any evidence that points to a technical explanation. we have to consider the possibil...

Called them and said what is going on there was no response what does that say to you? >> well, jon, there are several possibilities, we want to be careful about how we speculate or say here. it is very early in the investigation to really go down a particular path. however, when you have pilots that are not responding and a airplane that is dessending rapidly, you would think they are not in complete control of the airplane or possibly lost consciousness dow to rapid decompression. when you lose cabin pressure. your time of consciousness may only be 9 or 10 seconds if you are a healthy person...