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But up to that point at least the international airlines had been flying above 30,000 feet assuming that to be safe. why would that not be the fault of, say, president putin, whether he pulled the trigger or not he had been arming these rebels who were able to overrun the ukrainian bases and gain access to some of these very sophisticated missiles. >> youre right. first of all, the altitude issue, that doesnt matter to these kinds of missile systems. these things are good up to 70,000, 80,000 fe...

>> i want to put up on the screen a map of everest the climb. what is the most dangerous aspect of making that the line goes up through an ice fall, thats 2,000 feet of moving ice. its very unstable. often left of that route is the left shoulder of everest. it came down and slit into car-sized pieces. thats whats killed 16 sherpa and theres three more missing. beyond that, thats called the south cull. at that point, its just from an altitude issue. youre at 29,000 feet. thats where airplanes fly...

Two-minute turn would feel like. and this is it, right? were doing it now. its barely perceptible. its slight, youll get it, but if youre a passenger, once we straighten up, you would not sit here and say, boy, like, this is something very, very wrong. this is a subtle, slow turn. its sharp in that it will deviate you from the course to beijing eventually, but the perception that youre like banking, thats not what the simulator reflects on that. all right, so, lets go into the altitude issue. re...

Turn took two minutes to complete. that is a very long time to make a 90 or even 180 degree turn. an extraordinary amount of time for this aircraft. in fact, well try to give you a sense of what that kind of a two-minute turn would feel like. and this is it, right? were doing it now. its barely perceptible. its slight. youll get it. but if you were a passenger, once we straighten off, you would not sit here and say, boy, this is like, something really, really wrong. this is a very subtle, slow t...

Wrong place. >> one of those places that at least my gut tells me is wrong, this plane was flying at 5,000 feet over three countries to avoid radar detection. it just doesnt seem plausible. does it seem plausible to you? >> no. i think the problem is the satellite, not really pings, just data fixes. these satellite data fixes are better on directional but not on altitude. we havent gotten the same indications on altitude yet. what im hoping they can do and im sure they are working feverishly on ...

Abrupt changes in flight 370s altitude what does this tell us about the skills potential hijacker may have needed. joining us is d.j. frost. thanks for jing us this morning. >> good morning. >> so, when you look at this altitude issue now, the erratic changes in altitude and avoiding radar detection, what does that tell you about the type of person that must have been in the cockpit and handling this flight at that time? >> well, those erratic it altitude changes climbs and decent suggest some k...