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To this. >> i realize this is speculation. we don't know if weather is a factor. there have been no reports that it was substantial at the time. what are some of the possibilities of things that could have gone wrong with the airplane? >> you always look at the three things, aircraft, pilots' reaction and you look at the weather. i brought up the weather for that area early as soon as i got the call from fox. i don't see anything that is a major thunderstorms, no major typhoons nothing of that nature in the area. weather would have to be something they'll consider, at this point there is nothi...

Identify you you have a code. pilots will reach oover and press the button while they were attending to an emergency. >> they may be consistent with the sky news reporting the saying there was a quick distress call that was issued that emanated from the plane with no information following that. >> and that would lead to that explanation. and that may be what happened. >> it could. we're trying to find out what happened on what should be a relatively short and easy flight from one country to another in a very dense area. one thing that was speculated before and baffled the general. if you have ...

Germany and barcelona. it went down 65 miles north of nice as you can see on the map right there. the president of france has called it a tragedy. we do understand search and rescue headed to the scene. the scene is hard to reach, a very remote area, very mountainous. let me ask you something, regarding the emergency on bopa board. if you're on board and the pilot makes a distress call, does the pilot tell the passengers what's happening? >> not necessarily. he doesn't want to panic them. he's got to do the navigation and control of the aircraft and do what he has to do. he's looking for an al...

In there to do a search and rescue. and they are still in that phase, the search and rescue rather than salvage. it is not a very long flight, probably 1:15 at the most. it wasn't fully loaded with fuel, i'm sure. and so that's why i don't think -- and with only 150 passengers, it could easily, in my opinion, handle it on a single engine. what i'm concerned about is, that he stayed on the course he was going, going through the mountainous region rather than turning off to the west or back towards -- >> how do you explain that? that's significant. >> that is. that's what's very bothersome. i ca...

Hydraulics. >> in certain airplanes. this is not the airplane i flew. but every aircraft is different. you have to understand one system can cause other systems to fail. we're talking about weather, even if there's a little bit of -- if you end up in a little bit of a cloud -- >> let us put up weather 7 and it will show you the images over that part of europe. whatdize that say to you? >> it looks to me like there's not a problem. in the mountains, things are weird. weather systems are strange in the mountains. i don't want to speculate about what they were seeing. if you're in a little cloud ...