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Head tell you is the most likely sequence of events here? >> well, we don't have a lot of facts number one, piers. that's one of the big problems in all of this. and frankly, the best primary factual information we have right now comes from this inmarsat data which we've been talking about. and the inmarsat data, the inmarsat satellite is not a satellite-tracking device. they have done a clever bit of work to try to make it do this job using the time it takes from the aim to tthe airplane and sa back and figure out timing as well as doppler shift to plot speed and direction. it's pretty clever...

Evidence of a crew that was dealing with some sort of calamity. we don't know what caused that. that could have been a number of things we can talk about later. but was trying to get an airplane that was at 35,000 feet with -- where the air is very thin as we just heard, down to an altitude as quickly as possible where the air would be satisfactory for people to breathe. so that is what we call a high dive in aviation. it is -- we still have to look at a few things, how rapid the descent rate was, a few details we need to gather, but the impression we get is of a plane that is turning around, ...

Directive 2014-05-03. now we're talking airplane geek again. >> yes, you are. i wanted to make sure everybody knew what that directive is about is mandating inspections on the sat com antenna mounting area. that's nowhere near front area of the aircraft. it is in the back of the aircraft. and what it entails is putting a reinforcement there. until it is installed, it requires an inspection. a routine inspection. so i wanted to make sure we got that on the table now. that it was addressed and i just don't in my mind connect that with the rapid depressurization. the directive says it could cause...

To go all the way down to 12,000 feet takes a while. it does not in any way fully simulate the potential chaos that could be going on in that cockpit at the time. >> we're going to stick with you. we have time. so continue on. we'll jump in if we have any questions. he were saying that this would, it provides a lot of stress for the aircraft. >> rapid decompression. some sort of compromise. structural integrity of the aircraft. the last thing you want to do is overspeed the aircraft and worsening that problem. >> what is he doing? >> it will notify you if you're doing that by the alarm system,...

Of justly first your reaction to this new information coming out that maybe it wasn't reprogrammed and to make that turn to the west before that last communication. >> it is a game changer to see the least. right now we have no evidence that the crew did anything wrong and now we should be operating with the primary assumption that something bad happened to that plane shortly after they said good night. was it a bomb that caused rapid decompression event in the cockpit. which caused power failures and communication failures. the right thing to do would have been to lower your altitude quickly....