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Down? something does not make sense. david, do you think that the plane could have been tracked by satellite? why? >> it is possible that the plane would be registering with the satellite but the communication with the satellite is 23,000 miles up in space. its geo stationary and it really cant find direction or position of anything -- say its there, but it would not be able to give a position. >> richard quest, pakistan, indian, myanmar, thailand, indonesia all say they did not detect the ailer...

Find. and some people are calling cell phones and they are ringing. the family and friends are calling cell phones and its not going to voice mail. it is ringing. these are cornerstone issues. >> mary, we have talked about this and as i told our viewers at the beginning of this program we have been following this step-by-step, minute by minute. we are on air reporting it. but not every viewer is doing that and paying close attention to every single detail. we are getting a lot of questions about...

Plane to simply vanish? seems like a magicians trick to me. >> when planes cross the ocean they often vanish. we depend on vie mare radar. when the radar doesnt cover it, they vanish. >> jeff beatty. >> its a big ocean and i would have to say if it went down in the ocean they may not find it for a long time, if ever. hopefully it went down somewhere on land. we have a better chance there. >> jim tilmon. >> i agree with the last person. the chances of finding it at the bottom of the indian sea is...

The time it disappeared and shadowed that plane on its route to avoid radar direction. >> you know, we came across it and looked at it. i feel it sounds like it is plausible. it matches with the data you can find from the online flight trackers. it sounds plausible but at this point it seems like to much conjecture. if i could touch just on what the first viewer asked which was about the pinging. this is a major point largely overlooked. the satellite nav system was pinging. was checking in with...

There. and its been cnns information that when you speak to u.s. officials, its their focus. its their feeling, their stronger feeling its more likely the plane is in the indian ocean rather than that path up north into central asia where the possibility of landing the plane. and the focus is with the p-8 posiedon. and thats where the u.s. will focus. >> what increased security alerts are we seeing tonight? >> the one country that has done something is israel. it is requiring airlines to identif...