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Plane, how easy would it be to land a plane like that, given the wide area it could have landed, without any radar detection? >> well, i think if you get low enough you dont worry about radar. you can fly this thing on what we call map of the earth where youre right down on the deck. could this cap have done that? i dont know. but i would love to see the authorities get into his home and download whatever is left on his simulator. because thats a very sophisticated simulator. and he may have don...

Unprecedented situation all the way around, piers. >> barbara, stay with us. want to bring in david suse author of why planes crash. aviation expert jim tillman and matthew robinson, air safety investigator. welcome to all of you. let me start with you, jim tillman. weve talked before this week about the various twists and turns quite literally of the fate of this plane. what do you make of these extraordinary new revelations? >> well, theyre just about as confusing as everything else ive heard ...

Want to bring in david suse author of why planes crash. aviation expert jim tillman and matthew robinson, air safety investigator. welcome to all of you. let me start with you, jim tillman. weve talked before this week about the various twists and turns quite literally of the fate of this plane. what do you make of these extraordinary new revelations? >> well, theyre just about as confusing as everything else ive heard about this event from the very beginning. for example, lets talk about pings....

>> barbara starr, thank you very much indeed for that report. joining me now on the phone with more on the trail of the plane is "wall street journal" reporter john stroud. thank you for joining me. you just heard barbara starrs report there. clearly what seems to now be indisputable is the fact that these pings were heard suggesting the plane carried on flying for four to five hours after we had been led to believe in the first few days. what is now conjecture or what the u.s. authorities belie...

Practice to bring that airplane that low in that kind of altitude to skirt around and go where hes going. let me quickly also say something about the pings. yes, absolutely right. im glad that somebody mentioned that. the ping is a sound that was designed to give you the indication that you have something underwater. the thing that weve been calling pings here today really are like text messages that come out of the acars system in a completely different kind of thing. i dont know why they call ...

Out of the acars system in a completely different kind of thing. i dont know why they call a ping as a matter of fact. >> let me go to henry hughes, retired ntsb senior accident investigator. you deal in facts, henry hughes. there are pressing few facts that even the few scraps of facts weve been given through the week have been completely contradicted the very next day in most cases. what is your take on where this investigation is right now? >> i think the folks from malaysia are a little bit ...

Pings. >> well, words include more than they leave out. and words never say all there is to say about everything. the word "ping" started out in sonar. ping ping in a submarine. but theres an expression now, ill ping you, means ill send you an e-mail and remind you to do this. so theres two different kinds here. talking about the underwater clicking like a bell that would be a ping from my day. its also being used in this context to refer to a radar blip which has an echo or just a signal being ...

Youve heard? >> well, to talk about prohib probability of likelihood, lets assume that the pings, and im referring to the ping as like an internet protocol ping when you are verifying an ip address you send a ping out to see if you have a response. thats what im referring to when i say ping from the acars system. because it has to communicate, send that ping out and get the reinformation back. so lets assume there really were pings coming from that location. now assuming that, i find it extremel...

Is "wall street journal" reporter john stroud. thank you for joining me. you just heard barbara starrs report there. clearly what seems to now be indisputable is the fact that these pings were heard suggesting the plane carried on flying for four to five hours after we had been led to believe in the first few days. what is now conjecture or what the u.s. authorities believe is that it landed in the indian ocean. but you have a different theory. tell me what that is. >> well, we were reporting ju...

Manufacturers, everybody to do with that aircraft theyre obligated by annex 13 not to report to the public but to the civil authority in charge of that accident. they cannot release their names, any information we have now is probably being ill-gotten. because of the fact its not really -- they cant report that information. >> let me ask you, david souci. youre very experienced in this field. but nobody however experienced can really fathom what has gone on here. what do you think is the most li...