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But if it was a dire situation, whatever they had enunciated on their panels they may not have had time to get it out or it was attempted and they werent able to communicate because of the situation itself. absolutely that is a great radar environment there. they have all the sophistication that we have here in the states. ive flown out of barcelona. youre always in radar contact for the most part. and there should have been some ability to communicate with somebody on the ground. >> les abend, ...

Else? >> if it was a mistake, im sure the air traffic controllers would have come on and challenged the crew and said to the crew, hey, youre deviating. wake up. and it would have been corrected that easily. i dont think it would have made that mistake so basic loo begin with. if they did, there would have been some protection there. and on the waypoint, the waypoints, maybe -- the reason its so far off course, what that says, they were no longer concerned with beijing. whether that was because ...

They got little bit of hits over to the west coast. and the point is thats a relatively sophisticated radar environment. how do you elude that kind of radar? malaysia had quick response aircraft that could have intercepted that airplane which clearly shouldnt have been in that spot. so -- >> okay. hold it right there, arthur, because i want to continue this conversation with all three of you. a short break and when we come back, lets talk about why malaysias military didnt dispatch its f-18s and...

Paint, non descript blip on the radar that said the airplane was at a distance and heading in a direction but that was it. >> so lets look at potential flight paths here on the map because it could have gone a couple of different directions. the southern route versus the northern route, if youre going north, all you of a sudden you get over a big land mass in south asia, the middle east. a lot of u.s. military assets there, other military assets that other countries have. it seems implausible yo...

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Called off and now theres a large area, two sort of parts of that large area where the search is focused. one is northerly, and then theres this southern part that sort of goes indefinitely south in the indian ocean. do you have a sense which of those is more likely? is there a sense if one area is more likely than the other for where this plane headed off to? >> this is where logic comes into play. its evident that whoever was flying the aircraft didnt want to be detected. thats why they turned...