some decompression event that causes a lot of what we have seen. so, yes, it is quite a stretch because you have lost all of that communication capability and you have this rapid dissent apparently, quick turn around back to land. but you can still come up with a scenario where some sort of mechanical failure would cause that. i think it is unwise to rule that out at this point. what mechanical scenario would have all of these pieces still fit in? it is not so bad to call a may day. you turn around but don t tell anybody. what might explain that? what about the lithium batteries? what about the cargo hold occurred that created some kind of rapid problem? it might have been something smoldering they weren t aware of. there is any number of scenarios that could occur. i just don t think you can rule
to suggest one direction or another. they ve all got to be checked out to see which of those actually leads to the truth. right now, isolated data points and a lot of theories. isn t it true that a dramatic turn like the one that is hypothesized could have been done by a pilot just as easily as auto pilot? i think that s correct. but again, we don t know. look, i learned in my old profession in intelligence there s a difference between a secret which is something you really learn hard to discoverable and knowable and a mystery. when we think about the idea of terrorism, is there any reason to believe that it s more likely this was a deliberate act versus a massive decompression event? right now, what you need to do is look at the background noise, look at the background chatter. it s not absolutely conclusive.
what do you make of it? well, what i make of it is there is probably some justifiable outrage. if you re there, you re in charge of the investigation now, certainly, the malaysian investigation is not a model so far, although we don t know everything, but if you re there trying to do the investigation and then rolls royce and boeing are there with you and you get news from the wall street journal, you know, a very major news source, that their information is different than what the parties to the investigation, rolls royce and boeing, are telling you, i would imagine you d get more than kickback. i m hopeful that they re calling a meeting right now, and the first thing that should have happened and this would have happened from the ntsb the very first thing is to grab all that data, all the maintenance data, all the engine data, all the repair data, anything about the physical structurability, maintenance, things on that plane, that should have been grabbed day one. and if th
try to speculate or until it s verified fact, it really doesn t mean much to you, unless you re looking at expanding that model. so, how far can you go based on what we know? basically what i would say at this point is if the intent was to mask that aircraft, which it appears to me that there is some intent had been made to mask the aircraft, to turn off the transponders. i don t think it s likely there was a failure on board the aircraft that would cause those transponders to go out. because mary schiavo thinks it s more likely that it was an event as opposed to intentional thing, a decompression event, because there was a warning maybe about like the stress cracks around the antenna. she doesn t think it s more likely it s intentional, but you could go either way, you re saying. yeah, you could, you could. but the reason i go the direction that i do is because if there was something intentful, if there was not something intentful, then a massive failure would have had to ta
you speak to? reporter: pistorius was expressionly as they talked about the missing pieces from the bullet-riddled bathroom door, the door pistorius broke down with a cricket bat to reach his girlfriend after shooting her several times. for you to have stated under oath that nowhere that any of those exhibits appeared in sab-13. it can only mean one thing, that it was checked and it could not be found there. during the conversations i had, i could not determine where it was. reporter: pistorius had told investigators he put on his prosthetic legs before taking down the door. i m in a natural position at the moment with my legs. reporter: and on wednesday, the forensic expert tried to undercut his story, testifying that based on the height of the cracks in the door, pistorius was not wearing his prosthetic legs. the marks on the door is actually consistent with him not having his legs on. reporter: showing photo after photo of the crime scene, the defense revealing that