kyle bailey is a pilot and former faa safety team representative. he joins us now. le. >> good morning. >> i think earlier you said that you thought this was clearly equipment failure. what do you think happened here? >> you know, i'm not really leaning towards equipment failure. it's very unusual that the airplane is in a cruise flight configuration for landing meaning the landing gear is in the up position, the flaps are in the up position, there are no slats extended on those wings to slow the airplane down. so the airplane is basically coming in very hot. now, if it was in fact a bird strike or if there was, say, an engine failure on the right engine, it appears there might have been engine problems on the right side, it doesn't explain why the airplane is coming in so hot and with the landing deer gear inthe up position. normally there would be bells and alarms going on in the cockpit of the airplane but it's leading me to believe the pilot was preoccupied with possibly multiple things happening at the same time to explain the airplane basically in that cruise f