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Losing consciousness while dealing with subzero temp and limited oxygen, some are calling a type of hibernation, now the congressman for the district wants a nationwide study of the security surrounding airports. and joining me now from denver, doug fife. i don't understand how it is possible for someone to survive five hours at that altitude up to 38,000 feet, the lack of oxygen, the temperature sometimes 50 below zero. how is that possible? >> it defies physiology. one of the things that we concern ourself with with pilots, hypoxia with rapid decompression and then to be exposed to tempera...

Help me understand what's going on here. first, david gallo, good to have you. you were pivotal in finding flight 447. we will bring you in on the discussion. david, i haven't spoken to you yet this morning. if the plane dipped in altitude which is something you and mary have been asking a lot about, we need to know altitude, if it did it in that point of the flight, tell us where was that and what sense you make of a dip in altitude at that point. it's too soon to be out of gas. >> it is. it seems to me close enough to the turn that it would have had something to do -- indicate to me a rapid ...

She kaencan't get them an answe until noon the next day. no, answer us now, this manuals. >> we're not getting any information and whether they know anything or they're not telling us. at this stage, i'm -- it's just blank. just blank racing and praying. >> just north of perth, australia, danica weeks waits for news of her husband, paul, with her 3-year-old lincoln and her 11-month-old jack. >> the good news is, malaysia hasn't had to deal with this before. the bad news is, malaysia hasn't had to deal with this before. we're in a situation where we're watching them learn how to do this and it'...

Miles, let's start with you. what do you make of this information that they are making out? >> a 270-degree turn right all the way down to left, it's very difficult, wolf, to come up with a scenario where that is some sort of a mechanical failure or malfunction. if a pilot was in a bad way, rapid decompression, fire, whatever you want to say, he or she would not take that long way around to gain that direction. it would be a sharp turn to the left. and so it's very difficult -- i've talked to a lot of pilots about this, it's very difficult to look at that diagram and not say that it was an int...

Performing perfectly but we know something seriously happened wrong as soon as it took that turn and it's at that hour or o so, before and after it took that turn, where we really desperately need critical information about what went on in that cockpit. >> and it's interesting, because the 777 does have sort of a triple safety system redundancy, meaning it protects it. so arguably, as you suggest, yeah, this is a safe plane. it was safe enough to continue flying without the suggestion that anybody was actually operating the controls. possibly on autopilot, for example. now, you also write abou...