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Of smoke situation that is recognized by the pilots in the cockpit you immediately don the masks. then you have full control of the breathing and the communication. in addition to putting out a squawk and declare an emergency that indicates to the ground that you are in an emergency situation. so its -- without the irrefutable facts having been established of what was going on that aircraft and who was in control of it, then you really are just -- youre chasing theories. >> yeah, absolutely. bil...

Airplane thats never been picked up or vacuumed in the normal manner. >> the reason were saying this about this particular scenario that were talking about now with the plane dropping to 12,000 feet is because, according to our pilots and all of our safety people here, all of our investigators are saying this points to some sort of catastrophic emergency failure of the airplane. the pilot, co-pilot trying to get the plane to a new runway thats long enough to support a landing. and also trying to...

Either through december pressurization or smoke is also very farfetched because in any kind of smoke situation that is recognized by the pilots in the cockpit you immediately don the masks and you have full control of the breathing and the communication. in addition to putting out a squawk and declare an emergency that indicates to the ground you are in an emergency situation. so its -- without the irrefutable facts having been established of what was going on that aircraft and who was in contro...

>> are we looking out here? >> that would be a feasible option in my book. up until you get to coasting in. now, when you get to coasting in, pakistans area radar is very sensitive. it has been in a long conflict with india. it is very sensitive and so it will pick up anything that is unidentified on squawk. that is not part of the flight plan, so in my hypothesis, the only way an aircraft would get to pakistan would be in the acquiesence of the pakistani government. >> you believe, general, tha...

>> are we looking out here? >> that would be a feasible option in my book. up until you get to coasting in. now, when you get to coasting in, pakistans area radar is very sensitive. it has been in a long conflict with india. it is very sensitive and so it will pick up anything that is unidentified on squawk. that is not part of the flight plan, so in my hypothesis, the only way an aircraft would get to pakistan would be in the acquiesence of the pakistani government. >> you believe, general, tha...

>> are we looking out here? >> that would be a feasible option in my book. up until you get to coasting in. now, when you get to coasting in, pakistans area radar is very sensitive. it has been in a long conflict with india. it is very sensitive and so it will pick up anything that is unidentified on squawk. that is not part of the flight plan, so in my hypothesis, the only way an aircraft would get to pakistan would be in the acquiesence of the pakistani government. >> you believe, general, tha...

Im flying vfr. anybody who flies visual flight rules, if you want to use a transponder you squawk 1200. . a squawk code will be there. you will be told by the controller go to 0466. thats for radar identification and location. okay? who the plane is, where the plane is as far as altitude is concerned. above 18,000 feet -- and thats where this commercial flight was flying -- you have to have two of these. its regulation. youre going to tell me both of they will malfunctioned? both of them happene...

Blip. the secondary radar waits for the ping and a squawk from the airplane. the secondary sends a signal and the plane sends it back andys i am malaysia systems, 39,000 feet to the northeast and about 025 was the heading. im at 39,000 doing about 450 knots. thats all we know. this is how good we are. that goes back to the air traffic control. we would love to have them take over. it hasnt been implemented yet. heres the rub i will leave that. this is the map of where we are talking about. the p...

Aviation experts say its an astonishing mystery in modern flying. a jumbo jet in todays world, seemingly evaporates. >> im surprised they havent found it yet, because it was so abrupt. there was no may day call, no messages back from the plane. there was no hijack squawk on the transponder. >> reporter: mary schiavo is former inspector general from the department of transportation. she and other experts agree, something catastrophic happened. authorities in asia and the u.s. say theres no eviden...

Evaporates. >> there was no may day call, there was no messages back from the plane. there was no hijack squawk on the transponder. >> mary ski yav vo and other experts agree that something catastrophic happened. two days before the flight, an iranian middleman buys one way tickets. two men use the tickets. they give their fingerprints on the kuala lumpurs airport and they are caught on camera. >> we have -- look at the footage of the video and the photograph. it is confirmed now that they are n...