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Sure will help. >> that's right. there are a number of investigations under way. of course, this plane went down when it was at cruising altitude, about 30,000 feet. how unusual is it for a plane to fall out of the sky when it's at that kind of location within a flight path? >> only about 13% of accidents occur in cruise. it's obviously the safest part of of the flight. so it is fairly unusual. but obviously it does happen. we've seen this in recent years. we lost a mcdonnell douglas md-80 over africa last year in 2014, i believe it was. that was a weather encounter. we've seen other aircraft ...

But obviously it does happen. we've seen this in recent years. we lost a mcdonnell douglas md-80 over africa last year in 2014, i believe it was. that was a weather encounter. we've seen other aircraft with weather encounters. obviously, we know about the malaysian aircraft down by hostile action over the ukraine. usually that's the safest part of the flight and it was almost leveling off at its assigned cruise altitude when apparently this radio message was received that there was a technical problem and he intended to go to the nearest airport. and he -- like i said, linda, that was an extre...