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More and more somebody in the cockpit was directing this plane and directing it away from land. and it looks as though they were doing it to avoid any kind of detection. that's a very disturbing but that's where the evidence is leading. >> let's have that debate between you two. mary, you seem to think that maybe something mechanical went wrong with the plane. as captain shah radioed in the last transmission, he sounded calm. there was no sign of distress. could something catastrophic happen that fast after that last transmission? >> well, it can. and the point is we still don't have any motiv...

And for us, the most important thing to do is eradicate any logical explanations for anything that might have occurred. and there is always generally a logical explanation. we talk about the data being deleted off the simulator the guy had in his apartment. he may be using a home pc and maybe ran out of room on his hard drive. logical explanation. regarding the phone calls. we're all guilty of texting out to the runway threshold. >> this is what i want to know. those doors are closed and i'm a passenger and never assumed for a moment my pilot has been talking to his wife or children or friends...

Round on its axis 360 degrees. >> yes. that's exactly right. it didn't appear that the wings broke off or anything of that nature. but it definitely did spin around and came to an abrupt stop. there wasn't a huge explosion of fire, but this was definitely fire, lots of smoke, and at that point we were just waiting to -- >> let me just ask her. where did you see -- where did you see the tail touch the ground? how far after it crossed the runway threshold, if you can remember what you saw, where did you see the first strike of the tail? >> it seemed like the first strike of the tail was right at...