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All right, this is a fox news alert, with all the reports that the plane was deliberately diverted we must ask, well, who are the pilots? now the video you see on the right side of the screen right now, it is one of the pilots, youtube pages and it shows him standing in front of his own home flight simulator. joining me with reaction, faa crash investigator, david sushi is with us, also a pilot, boeing, and former navy fighter pilot leah gabriel is with us. good to see you all. ill start with yo...

We did video recreations of the flight. in that case they would take the nose up, try to throw them to the back, and try to throw them off balance and rock it back and force. that is the only thing that struck me like terrorism. everything else is basically six or seven pings. and pings dont tell me terrorists. pings say something is wrong if that is all you have. but there is like i said -- >> what about the transponder being turned off? that is something the pilot can do manually? >> no, we do...

All right, this is a fox news alert, with all the reports that the plane was deliberately diverted we must ask, well, who are the pilots? now the video you see on the right side of the screen right now, it is one of the pilots, youtube pages and it shows him standing in front of his own home flight simulator. joining me with reaction, faa crash investigator, david sushi is with us, also a pilot, boeing, and former navy fighter pilot leah gabriel is with us. good to see you all. ill start with yo...

The plane has been. there are other things that happened sean, pilot incapacitation -- >> wouldnt it be more likely, the pilots, once they go wheels up, theyre boom, the wheels are up, theyre there in case something wrong happens? right? >> in a lot of cases. >> you want it on auto pilot because it is a much more precise way of flying and certainly you will save a lot of fuel and time with that. so you put it on automatic pilot. yes, the fact that it went off track, the transponders were off, if...

Flying. it is 90 minutes later they realize the plane is missing because it never showed up in chinese air space. it is well off course, pretty well determined, right? >> and no pilot would go off course without enunciating that it went off course. that captain was not just 18,000 hours but a training cant and certified by their government to give instruction and testing. if they had an emergency, which never was enunciated, if they had a problem they would have said something. remember, the key...

The plane has been. there are other things that happened sean, pilot incapacitation -- >> wouldnt it be more likely, the pilots, once they go wheels up, theyre boom, the wheels are up, theyre there in case something wrong happens? right? >> in a lot of cases. >> you want it on auto pilot because it is a much more precise way of flying and certainly you will save a lot of fuel and time with that. so you put it on automatic pilot. yes, the fact that it went off track, the transponders were off, if...

Flying. it is 90 minutes later they realize the plane is missing because it never showed up in chinese air space. it is well off course, pretty well determined, right? >> and no pilot would go off course without enunciating that it went off course. that captain was not just 18,000 hours but a training cant and certified by their government to give instruction and testing. if they had an emergency, which never was enunciated, if they had a problem they would have said something. remember, the key...

Automatic pilot it will fly straight to its destination. the transponder usually -- this is not a plane known for its mechanical failure. the track record is impeccable. and then it gets off course then the changes in altitude. that is not going to happen on a flight that is on automatic pilot. is it? >> right, but were trianulating. we dont really know what happened. we have the -- >> again if it is on automatic pilot. the motion on the airplane, or -- >> sean, the problems we dont yet know tha...

Triple of course quadruple, if it went off the pilot would have been able to turn it back on via some battery pack system. >> if theyre able. >> explain the payne system. he was in a lear jet if memory serves me right, we had fighter jets go up and actually they could see that everybody was already dead in the plane and they let it run out of fuel before the plane went down, right? >> right, they let it go because they could calculate exactly where it was going to come down. there was never a pl...

Recorded are, all right, good night. as a pilot, does that sound odd or unusual? >> no, not at all. thats as per normal operations. nothing usual about that. both of these guys would have been in the cockpit at that time for sure. >> as far as the shutdown as you mentioned of the data reporting, right now it is inexplicable to a professional pilot. there are a number of different pieces of equipment that report. some of them are the radios. that would be the pilot. other pieces are mechanical, t...