chris? >> two quick points of clarification. the first one is, nic, where do they think it dropped altitude again? >> off the west coast of the malaysian peninsula, a place called -- close to a place called para island. it reappears about 250 nautical miles northwest of panang island. the distance is about 120 nautical miles. >> the second thing is, it's a little confusing. you're saying that the malaysian authorities say they did scramble their fighters based on this and yet early in the investigation, am i wrong, am i m misremembering, that they didn't seem to have any information about where the plane could be? how could they have not had any information if they scrambled jets in that direction? >> well, this is correct. there was a lot of early indications from both the malaysian air force and the civil aviation that have subsequently been contradicted.