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According to airline ratings.com which obtained this screen grab this indicates that 8501 stalled, moving about 100 miles too slowly for such a high altitude. this website's editor-in-chief spoke with cnn. listen. >> it's a wing stall not an engine stall. i have to clarify that. it's a little bit confusing to the viewers when you talk about a stall, you think about your car stalling on the freeway. this is an earaerodynamic stall. elter because there's not enough speed or the plane is too sharp of an angle and the air on top of the wing is disturbed and no longer giving lift. >> let's turn to ...

Tell him what position the aircraft is. flight 447 in that accident the air speed indicators were not working and he no idea what speed he was. whether he was under speeding or -- designee didn't know. sometimes you're in limbo up in the air. >> that's right. whereas in this case we don't know. your point was good we don't know what happened. people say why your speculating. why are you doing this? it's horrible for families. the reason we speculate is to assist in the finding of the aircraft. where is the aircraft. if it's a power on stall a deep stall like this one it could go in literally a...

Transitional period if you don't have enough air speed that's a bad position to be in. it's called coffin corner. where you stalled and no recovery. >> we just want to emphasize we don't know if that's exactly what happened here. but if it were a wing stall that happened what causes that? >> if you remember as a kid and i used to do this all the time driving down the highway sticking your handout the window. as long as your hand is going in this direction you're in. if you go like this the wind is very strong against you and very difficult to control where your hand is in that wind. this is ve...

Video is actually first you see the left wing go down. it sort of rocks left. and then the right-wing goes down. and you can see then the nose follows down to impact. and what this appears to be is basically the airplane is stalling. on a swept wing jet like this, you'll tend to have the wing stall at the tips. they lose lift at the tips and tend to bring the nose further up. so it appears that we have a stall now. we don't know yet why they stalled. there's a couple of things that could be. first off in a military base like this when you're in hostile territory, it's normal procedure to do a ...

And then as you watch it, it kind of appears to stall. and then you see the nose pull up. the tail appears to drop. this is all to a lay person's eye. did something go wrong here or not? >> well, so what we see in the video is actually first you see the left wing go down. it sort of rocks left. and then the right-wing goes down. and you can see then the nose follows down to impact. and what this appears to be is basically the airplane is stalling. on a swept wing jet like this, you'll tend to have the wing stall at the tips. they lose lift at the tips and tend to bring the nose further up. so ...