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To you. >> all right janice, thank you so much. so its been a little more than 24 hours since the plane disappeared. and patrick smith is the commercial airline pilot and the author of "ask the pilot" and hes here now to shed some insight into all of this. we hear about the radar, the plane just falling off of radar, how does that happen? >> well im not even sure exactly what that means or what people are trying to say when they use that expression in aviation terms, that can mean different thin...