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In their home, and i've played with them from time to time myself, none of us are active boeing 777 pilots. i think what's very interesting here, and we haven't really touched on this, is that this airplane crossed the malaysian peninsula on military radar with complete impunity. if they flew from the east coast to the west coast, that was something that had to be practiced. the plane flew, it's been called an erratic course, they actually flew very skilled waypoints until they came to the fork many the road where all contact was lost and we have the north corridor and the south corridor. but ...

He was on the web talking about something completely different. i think home repair and behind him was the flight simulator. you have investigated a lot of crashes. how significant of a clue is that to you? >> well, the flight simulator could be an innocuous thing, he's a pilot, or it could be an effective tool for learning certain precise skills. what do we know? in this case the plane took off around 12:30 from kuala lumpur. it was en route for 45 minutes. we know now from a variety of sources that the transponder was turned off, the plane became invisible to radar. and the acar system befor...

There was at least one missed hand shake when i went from the malaysian radar system to the next system. i wonder if i can ask you a question, a lot of view es are sending in tweets now. it's jeff russell who asks, why should pilots have the ability to turn a plane's communications off? why do commercial airlines need stealth in effect? why is that ability inside the cockpit of the plane, the acars system, the transponder. what's the safety reason or the operational reason for that? >> well, all appliances have an on/off switch. the transponder being something under our control. we wouldn't tu...

It off, right? you remember that 747 last month that landed on a 5,000-foot strip at the wrong airport? it was a small strip, giant jumbo jet landed there. they also took it off. they had to get special permission to take it off. they stripped it down. they were light on fuel. but they made the take-off. these planes can perform to a far greater degree on shorter runways than you would suppose. >> one of the things we have learned, and there's been this back and forth about communication with the pilot, right. there's the acar system was turned off. the pilot then gives his final signoff for t...

Said. i think you were referring to the acar system, that transmits more health data. but this independent surveillance broadcast is the next generation of how we will track planes. it not only gives air traffic controllers information but also gives the pilots information on other aircraft around them. it being slowly rolled out. it requires ground stations, it's not wild lidely used in th united states and doesn't have full coverage. at this point i think it's clear we're looking for a plane that was being controlled by someone who doesn't want it to be found. if you crash, do something dram...