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Consuming the aviation community and the rest of the world. robert marks stay with us. wee be back with more on the search for malaysian flight 370. what happened to the plane and the people on board. i must begin my journey,

Ahead, you still have peripheral vision and if someone is typing on the keypad, sort of down and lower to my right where im sitting now it is impossible not to see that. and unless they did it while one of the other pilots was, perhaps in the lavatory or something like that. jon: it is such a strange, strange mystery. robert mark, we have a lot of other questions to ask you. well get them another time. thanks very much for being with us today. >> youre welcome, jon. jon: were also just getting n...

Officially searching and apparently they have some indication that that plane may be in the water in that area. robert mark is a fox news aviation analyst, a commercial pilot and publisher of jetwhine.com. robert, you and i talked about this thing before. what do you think happened? >> ill tell you, with the facts coming out of malaysia which we finally got to the point we dont believe, is hard to completely disavow anything. is it absolutely clear that this was not a mechanical failure? no, its...

Everythings pretty lax. this may have been the only airplane this controller was talking to. so saying good night to the controller, it doesnt mean much to me at least. >> i got to go but i have to ask you one last quick question in the piece you wrote. you dont think if the pilots were involved they could not have done it alone, just two of them or one of them. >> yeah, i dont believe this kind of planning was carried off with just these two pilots on random, last minute kind of effort. i belie...

With passengers. they could have taken a cargo jet or something that was empty or just, you know, full of cargo going from one place to another. i mean, obviously were all just guessing here. every day there is a few more piece that is come together. this altitude shifting and also the fact that the pilots last comment, he said, good night to the controller, came after the transponder was turned off. what do you make of that, robert? >> well that is strange. there is no doubt about that. and tha...

Robert mark, he is a corporate commercial pilot who hopefully can shed some insight into this. robert, good to have you here with us. airplanes dont just disappear from the sky. >> no, absolutely they dont, megyn. and that is probably the most frightening part of this event, is that very much like when the air france aircraft disappeared over the south atlantic five years ago. for the crew not to even have had enough time to get off an emergency call, what we call in the industry a may day call ...

Calculations. >> there are only two options when you say that. either the airplane is down because it is out of fuel or it landed somewhere with fuel and they have been unable to make any kind of contact with anybody on the ground anywhere. so those are really the only two possibilities at this point. >> it is a grave situation, obviously. >> oh, it is. >> and the airline seems to recognize it in its tone, offering thoughts and prayers to those who have been affected, the crew and passengers and...

Bus was transmitting mechanical maintenance data back to its maintenance base at the time of the accident. we may find at some point that this aircraft was also transmitting some sort of data back down to the ground, that air traffic may not have seen because they wouldnt normally be privy to that kind of information anyway. right now it is probably a little too early to tell. >> and so in the absence of knowing exactly -- because theyre not coming out and saying we believe the jet is down. it a...

The u.s. and five other world powers. next monday iran says it will begin scaling back its nuclear program for at least six months including eliminating some of its stockpile of highly-enriched uranium. the news comes as the white house battles congress over increased sanctions against tehran. joining us the executive director for the foundation of defense for democracies. mark, you have been a critic of this deal in the past. >> what: do you think you have seen over the past few hours? >> gener...

Economy is recovering, it is back on its feet. we see gdp growth rates go from negative 6% to positive territory, inflation cut in half. in other words the iranian economy is generating tens of billions of dollars in renewed economic activity a as a result of sanctions released and climate of deescalating sanctions. that is climate of economy and more powerful country exploiting power across the region, helping assad stay in power and helping to kill hundred of thousands of syrians and others an...