CNN Piers Morgan Live March 8, 2014 02:33:00
Also lost all contact has a different meaning in aviation. you not only have oral communication with the pilot and company, the pilot and air traffic control, you have an automatic system that's broadcasting its position back in response to radar. you have radar energy bouncing off the metal skin of the airplane and producing an image. you probably have satellite communication between the engines and other mechanical systems showing up to a satellite bouncing back down to the airline somewhere. so there are many many channels of communications. those are all gone. this plane is not in the air....
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