air defense radar as a big blip. if that big blip doesn't care a squawk, the transponder with a four digit code, that's what it's for, to identify it on a radar screen. if you have a big blip that doesn't have a squawk, that isn't flight planned or part of routine airways traffic this is a big red flag to any sovereign territory that has air defense jets ready to react to anything entering into the sovereign territory. this is always been the question for me. >> let's talk about also the area that we're talking about here. let's walk over to the map to take a closer look. one of the areas we're talking about is this is when it was cutting across malaysia going to the malacca straits, right? >> absolutely. this is kind of the region here in the south china sea where it disappeared. and then we know that it actually crossed malaysia and actually did this route. it came to the north and then went northwest. so avoided tailand and then out into the malacca strait. the question has always been how could a 777 cross an entire