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But up to that point at least the international airlines had been flying above 30,000 feet assuming that to be safe. why would that not be the fault of, say, president putin, whether he pulled the trigger or not he had been arming these rebels who were able to overrun the ukrainian bases and gain access to some of these very sophisticated missiles. >> you're right. first of all, the altitude issue, that doesn't matter to these kinds of missile systems. these things are good up to 70,000, 80,000 feet. flying above 30,000 feet isn't going to keep anybody safe. also, airline -- i was a fighter pi...

>> i want to put up on the screen a map of everest the climb. what is the most dangerous aspect of making that the line goes up through an ice fall, that's 2,000 feet of moving ice. it's very unstable. often left of that route is the left shoulder of everest. it came down and slit into car-sized pieces. that's what's killed 16 sherpa and there's three more missing. beyond that, that's called the south cull. at that point, it's just from an altitude issue. you're at 29,000 feet. that's where airplanes fly and you're on the ground. it's treacherous to the body.

Two-minute turn would feel like. and this is it, right? we're doing it now. it's barely perceptible. it's slight, you'll get it, but if you're a passenger, once we straighten up, you would not sit here and say, boy, like, this is something very, very wrong. this is a subtle, slow turn. it's sharp in that it will deviate you from the course to beijing eventually, but the perception that you're like banking, that's not what the simulator reflects on that. all right, so, let's go into the altitude issue. remember, the plane was at 35,000 feet. we say that it dropped to 12,000 feet, but that readi...

Turn took two minutes to complete. that is a very long time to make a 90 or even 180 degree turn. an extraordinary amount of time for this aircraft. in fact, we'll try to give you a sense of what that kind of a two-minute turn would feel like. and this is it, right? we're doing it now. it's barely perceptible. it's slight. you'll get it. but if you were a passenger, once we straighten off, you would not sit here and say, boy, this is like, something really, really wrong. this is a very subtle, slow turn. it's sharp in that it will deviate you from the course to beijing eventually. but the perc...