handoff to the vietnamese prol controller bp but that was not done. an ominous foreboding of what was to follow. what happened happened rapidly. a plane that immediately turned back to the southwest. a plane no longer being followed, identified with transponder codes. you have a plane which was paintsed with primary radar hits and the information heading to the west coast tv towards the andaman islands and this plane was flown either on autopilot or by hand to those waypoints. it was flown intentionally and with deliberation and with great skill. the altitude deviations which we've talked about a lot, i don't give a lot of credence to, because the plane was already about couple hundred miles away from the nearest radar station. the farther you get away from radar, the less accurate the