assuming they re working. and then they re going to do an initial sight inspection, where s the debris field, coming down from the altitude it s scattered far and wide, so it will take time to find and identify all the pieces. and if reports news reports about the activities of some dissident egyptian groups in the area, that may complicate their work. assuming the flight data recorders are recovered, how will that impact the pace of this investigation? it could have a big impact on the pace, depending on what information is on there. the last report had the airplane climbing and diving repeatedly with a 62 knot air speed. well, that s an aerodynamic stall, so the airplane is not poing to fly going that slow. it doesn t rule out pilot error at this point. so the sky s the limit right now
that could have happened inadvertently. having a pilot asking for a different altitude and being denied is common. there s a lot of airplanes in that part of the world flying at any one point in time, so that s common. but if you do see the airplane climbing and losing speed, that would indicate he was in an updraft. trace: and possibility this thing might have stalled. we keep going back to the air france crash in 2009 where they were in bad weather didn t know what air speed was and, in essence, the plane just stalled because the pilots couldn t figure out what was going on. any chance you think that might have happened here? there s always a chance of that happening. we really won t know until we find the black boxes which probably will be fairly soon. then we ll know. these kinds of things have happened before. we had an a-320 that was owned by air new zealand that crashed several years ago because of some of the instrumentation that froze due to water in it. that could have happ
eliminate that anderson, i m still there s pieces of the puzzle that are baffling to me. this is above my pay grade as far as being a pilot is concerned with reference to the data. have you to take it as gospel. you have some really smart folks. there s obviously still so much we do not know, so many pieces of this that are yet to be filled in? yeah, the conflicting data, way back last week, we got the airplane climbing to 45,000 feet above its surface ceiling. going different levels. now the other night, we got it descending to 12,000 feet. i m not so if it was at 12,000 feet, my problem is, if it remained at that altitude, it s going to be double the fuel consumption. right, it can t have remained if it did go down at 12,000 feet, it would have burned through fuel at such a great rate it couldn t have