point. and, david, i mean, according to the flight data tracker, flight radar 24, the plane slowed down suddenly and then plunged at like 300 miles an hour and the plane s direction of travel was, what they said, wobbling from side to side. what does that tell you? well, it would tell you that it was a breakup in the flight. no directional control of the aircraft. wobbling left to right means no rudder and no control going left to right. it would be consistent with this type of in-flight breakup for sure. miles, does it surprise you that air traffic controllers wouldn t have received any distress calls from the pilots? if you harkin back to previous incidents like this whether it is lockerbie or twa-800 which ultimately was a full tank explosion, there was no chance for the crew to get a radio call off. there are also reporting reporting that officials say that based on the flight data recorder, there were uncharacteristic sounds heard
down suddenly and plunged 300 miles an hour. and the direction was wobbling from side to side. what does that tell you? that it was a break up in flight. there is no directional control of the aircraft. there is no control going left and right. it would be consistent with an inflight break up. does it surprise you that the air traffic control did not have any distress calls. if you harken back to previous events like this, like twa 800 which was a fuel tank explosion, there was no chance for the crew to get a radio call off. and interfax is reporting that based on the flight data recorder there were uncharacteristic sounds heard before the moment the flight disappeared. can you read into that? going back to twa 800 there
wolf. it s unlikely however. i think what you have here is not the typical template for an emergency situation, which would be think of sully. you declare an emergency. it s a mayday. you look for the nearest landing field. you certainly wouldn t continue on to a mountain range if you had a problem like this. was the crew incapacitated or was there a problem with the pressurization system which allowed them to and they couldn t get a radio call off? was the plane not set up for altitude hold on the autopilot and it went down without them being awake, if you will? i suppose that s a possibility. but you can t none of this stacks up for the typical professional pilot response to an emergency. tom, i guess right now u.s. officials and others are saying they don t see a nexus to terrorism or anything like that. but they re locking at all of these various options, right?