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>> well, what we heard was something that hasnt really been raised since the early days of the search. the passengers mother raising the issue of the idea she feels its gone up to kazakhstan to the north. we havent talked about this for a long time because weve been focusing on the southern indian ocean, but when inmarsat analyzes ping data, the ping data itself is symmetrical, meaning every time you pass to the south, theres equally a pass to the north. and i think the assumption has been all a...

Question like an engineer. you did not ask me about the pings, sorry. if you have reliable ping data, in the general area from the southern route predicted by the inmarsat data, thats absolutely viable and credible. if its from a credible source. for instance, the malaysians have given us different stories, the public, as well in their own country, and throughout the world on what happened. frankly, i dont trust anything the malaysian government says today. >> okay. all right. lets move on now. ...

How confidence is the company that that is what happened to 370 that it ended in the water. >> very reluctantly, weve been looking at the ping data for the last six or serven days, comparing it with other malaysian airlines, triple 777 in the region and looking at the flight data we can get from the pings. we mapped those pings against the southern and northern route. i can say theres a strong correlation with the southern route, and absolutely no correlation with the north, that it went south. ...

Vice president of -- they want to know for sure. are you 100% sure the plane went down in the indian ocean? >> well, we are as sure -- we have been looking at the ping data for the last six or seven days comparing it on our network with other malaysia airlines. it has enabled us to correlate the ping data with the southern indian ocean. there is simply no match. on that basis after it was peer reviewed by another satellite

Like our ntsb validated inmatsat ping data and maylay radar tapes? and i want to pose that one to patrick smith. whats the possibility about that? chad mentioned that and he said we need to get the other ping information from them. >> yeah, were getting all sorts of garbled information, unconfirmed information. i think it goes without saying that everything needs to be put on the table and vetted a little more carefully before we have a stronger against of what happened. meanwhile, to back up a ...

Airline that has the same level of scrutiny control as what the united states government imposes on our airlines. >> were going to have to agree to disagree on this. im not flying the british flag, but i am saying -- anyway, well agree to disagree. >> you do feel fairly safe. i get your point, arthur. i want to move on here. i want to talk about -- and chad myers mentioned this and forgive me if i pronounce it wrong. it says, has an authority other than the malaysian government like our ntsb val...