locator beacon and you have to be within like one, maybe as far as five six miles where you can pick that up. so that provides zero information for you until you are at the location of the potential crash. that s a problem we had with malaysia 370. do you think that s possible or likely? of course it s possible. i don t see it as likely. because from the evidence that we see the debris field is very small and had that happened the aircraft would have impacted with great force and there would be debris the debris field wouldn t just be limited to the bodies and the exit door and the emergency slide as it is right now. okay colonel, joel is asking how high can a plane go to avoid
like did the plane go down because of mechanic s failual fr something else? a good question, carol. as i look at the data, a specific point, the bake frequency offset, we talked about it before, jumps really high. 80s, then to 170. suddenly it went to 273. tells me at some point something significant happened. either the data bus was lost, the 429 bus that gives the information to the satellite. it was lost. or an electrical failure of some kind on the aircraft, or simply turned off and they lost the data. it doesn t tell us a whole lot at this point but i d like to look into that further and i am doing that. hopefully we ll find more information whether it was mechanical or physically turned off. i hope so. i know you ll keep us posted. mary, last question. the bluefin 21 is expected to wrap up its final mission torsion. the underwater search might not
wondered whether he felt it was time to end the suffering of those families and try to put some, begin to put some closure on this open-ended mystery about where did this plane go. as you know, for a lot of families, until they see the wreckage and proof, it s going to be hard. okay, tom, thank you so much for that. i want to bring in bob haeger now. bob, you ve been listening to all of this. what do you make of this information, not only by the prime minister, but the objects found today? first, the prime minister, this is data from that satellite that s getting the hits from the airplane, that physically puts the plane in the indian ocean. we ve known that for awhile. we have, but it was speculation before. i think they are much more positive about it now, based on new calculations, but this is coming from great britain, from the owner of this satellite,
nig night. what explains that? probably malice by the pilot. we have seen them snap before. i think that is more likely than not. there is theory that everybody became incapacitated or they had a fire. but there is a lot of point which the pilots could have made contact with air traffic control. and the time was in between switching air zones and controllers. so the controller letting the plane go is say he is turning left maybe the next controller told him to turn left and the next controller says maybe the previous controller told him to turn. that is very interesting. that is the window of opportunity you are staying? i think so. without a full positive handoff,
kate? thanks chris. we have a lot to get to in malaysia. just hearing a report from indonesia saying a group of fishermen said they saw a plane go down the day the jet vanished. we re working on details of that claim. anything to narrow the search area is something everyone wants to know now. we learn thailand s air force picked up a radar signal that day. minutes later, a radar saw an unknown aircraft not sending data. the search expands again for the jet. 2.24 million square nautical miles to be exact. that s about as big as the continental a united states. china is taking the lead in the