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You mention it's a 90 minute flight. french officials are saying this plane vanished from radar screens 80 minutes in. which makes me think it was not on course or going too slow. it was behind where it was supposed to be landing in germany. wouldn't you say? >> yes, by the way, i just took a quick guess on that flying time. it could be two hours. i'm just looking at the map. and they are going out about 500 knots. it looks to me to be a thousand miles or something. that is a guess. i don't have the exact numbers. if i had google maps i could tell you. you're talking in that time frame, whethe...

When theato towers were aware t plane was having problems? >> we have just heard 5,000 feet off the ground probably something like -- as we say, an hour or more into that flight. i don't have exact information on that. >> as we look at these particular images where the plane went down, it was still 1,000 kilometers from where it was going to sit down. if you're just joining us the news this morning is not good out of the french alps. a german wings, which is a low cost airline, a jet bound from barcelona to germany has gone down. no survivors are expected. they had about 150 souls on board. a ...

Control, so i would have to start to speculate that something occurred, possibly in its altitude or it lost some type of engines and was not able to recover power and descended into a mountainous area. >> you don't like that elevation for that area. that puts up a red flag for you? >> anything like that with a mountainous radar. they're talking about 6,800 feet. my first suspicions perhaps an engine out, some type of control problem that had been lower than they should be in the area. or even misreading a map for a minimum en route altitude. >> you're following this with your sources right now...