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How can they believe that if we are led to believe this plane went for some five hours? how are they saying it ended up in the water? definitively? what lead them to that conclusion? >> reporter: no. i mean, let me start with this. nothing is detfinitive in this story other than the plane is missing. they have made some calculations based on this technical data. and what they believe the flight path would have been if they could have calculated it based on the radar returns, the so-called blips ...

Made, then apparently the transponder was deactivated in some fashion. so it could be, of course, just a failure, a single point failure or it could be the result of something catastrophic happening to the aircraft or it could be that it was deliberately turned off. the fact that there was no contact with the next controlling agency and the fact that the aircraft apparently started turning from the primary radar returns indicates that there was something more going on. and it seems to be somethi...

Individual pilots and use techniques, human skills to make them more synergistic, to make them better as a team than they ever could have been as a collection of individuals. >> what do you mean, captain toman, of the malaysian military, the plane may have been turning around before it vanished. i would imagine when planes change course, theres a protocol they follow? >> i like the fact that they say it may have been turning. im not sure it was. lets say the airplane broke up because of somethin...

Being done according to their procedures. that pilot monitoring would be the one typically who would be using the checklist, who would be talking to air traffic control on the radio, every way supporting and assisting the pilot flying. there are well defined rolls and responsibilities, weve learned how to take individual pilots and use techniques, human skills to make them more singer giftic, to make them better as a team than they ever could be as a collection of individuals. >> what do you mea...

Many residents, but the fear that it will go parallel to the coastline. once the forecast shifted 36 hours ago. the fear was the storm in the center would do this. ba parallel the coast, dragging this region, right here, through the entire populated corridor of southwest florida. and it is super susceptible to storm surge. marco island is getting swallowed soon by the eye. this is radar returns. so that thing you see, there is a four or five minute delay. it sweets through, so what were looking ...

Navigate but not necessarily communicate. theyre trying to save the aircraft. often times you go in and make chouks in the cockpit and theyre innocent very well driven by performance but sometimes they can lead to human factor errors and 90% of those crashes are usually associated with that. >> there are reports that the plane ascended about 4,000 feet and then plunged or descended relatively rapidly about 10,000 feet. do you buy the accuracy of those radar returns or is this another case as we ...

Another area they had radar returns. they werent sure where it was. they had small blips on the radar. they make decisions they went toward the area they were seeing a little radar return. there was no debris there but we have the capability to maneuver. >> have you ever been involved in anything like this before? >> it is really an unprecedented event. over the course of the year we will have 80 exercises 200 or so ports and we practice for this kind of thing. it is something no one has ever

Does that mean? radar terms? that means i have got it doing damage with significant debris in the air. >> shepard: that storm chaser near oklahoma city. we will try to get him on the line to give us a better idea whats happening right now. we should note oklahoma city is far from the only spot in danger at this moment. the national weather service reports high risk areas include parts of texas, kansas, arkansas, missouri and oklahoma. lets get right to it the extreme weather center tonight and j...