consultant. also, david is the author of why planes crash. the fight for safe skies and a cnn analyst so thanks to all of you. mark weiss, what do you glean from this new information? i think you have to start managing expectations. we ve heard so many conflicting reports over the last number. days. i think this information needs to be vetted. certainly if it is real and legitimate, it brings up a whole new set of circumstances. but as was brought up in the last hour, the descent to 12,000 feet, if it depends on how rapid that was. and also, did it climb back to another altitude? it certainly at this point could have said a number of things. there could have been somebody in the cockpit. we still don t know. that forced the pilots to descend because they wanted to turn the aircraft around. without question, this could have been a procedure that would have come about because of some type of catastrophe on board the
directive 2014-05-03. now we re talking airplane geek again. yes, you are. i wanted to make sure everybody knew what that directive is about is mandating inspections on the sat com antenna mounting area. that s nowhere near front area of the aircraft. it is in the back of the aircraft. and what it entails is putting a reinforcement there. until it is installed, it requires an inspection. a routine inspection. so i wanted to make sure we got that on the table now. that it was addressed and i just don t in my mind connect that with the rapid depressurization. the directive says it could cause a rained decompression. it is not anywhere near that door that mark weiss mentioned earlier. he soy wanted to address those two things.
co-pilot on board were trying to do before the plane disappeared? many questions raised by this new development. but certainly a very important piece of the jigsaw puzzle. and let me remind you, where i am in kuala lumpur, there are a lot of families waiting for every piece of information that they can get. and holding on to it because this pieces together where their loved ones might be. 239 people on board that plane. thank you. live for us in kuala lumpurful let s get our panel of experts in to explain the possible significance of this brand new information. joining me now, mary schiavo, moo mark weiss, a former american airlines pilot and a security consultan. miles o brien is one of our cnn aviation analysts and a pilot himself. les, a 777 pilot and a cnn analyst. bobby is a retired navy captain and a retired navy diver. lieutenant colonel ken christianson is an aviation
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evidence or information that it made a sharp turn and then it dropped from 35,000 feet to 12,000 feet. and we have been putting that into the flight simulator to see exactly how that might play out. marine and mitchell have been doing that. now our panel of experts are weighing in. they have some questions for you. first, cnn aviation analyst, mark weiss, what do you want to know? first, i want to remind everybody that a number of years ago a united airlines 747 out over the pacific lost a cargo door at altitude. and was able to make a safe emergency landing. so structurally the aircraft stayed intact. but the question i have, and this is primarily for mitchell, when we re talking about electric buses on the airplane. the buses are basically the power source, let s say, for the electrics and it is broken up into different areas. kind of like what you would have