the problem is i have never seen them turn to aviation before. they are not very sophisticated. they would need to contact a group from malaysia. themselves alone, i doubt it. >> early on i was asking officials in washington whether they had these capabilities. arthur, before we finish just on this point of the handoff, when that plane gave that good night, a handshake, in effect, why didn't the vietnamese authorities alert someone when the plane didn't show up on their radar screens? >> standard protocol would absolutely be that the controller who was second in the sequence, who received the football, who received the handoff would expect within a short period of time for the new frequencies to have been dialled in in the airplane and then the flight crew to make contact with the new controller. the fact that it wasn't here is