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The plane has been. there are other things that happened sean, pilot incapacitation -- >> wouldn't it be more likely, the pilots, once they go wheels up, they're boom, the wheels are up, they're there in case something wrong happens? right? >> in a lot of cases. >> you want it on auto pilot because it is a much more precise way of flying and certainly you will save a lot of fuel and time with that. so you put it on automatic pilot. yes, the fact that it went off track, the transponders were off, if nothing else that has to be a suspicion. who was in the cockpit until you get the voice recorder...

Flying. it is 90 minutes later they realize the plane is missing because it never showed up in chinese air space. it is well off course, pretty well determined, right? >> and no pilot would go off course without enunciating that it went off course. that captain was not just 18,000 hours but a training can't and certified by their government to give instruction and testing. if they had an emergency, which never was enunciated, if they had a problem they would have said something. remember, the key factors, you're going to aviate, navigate and communicate. those are the tenets that you fly by. >...

Automatic pilot it will fly straight to its destination. the transponder usually -- this is not a plane known for its mechanical failure. the track record is impeccable. and then it gets off course then the changes in altitude. that is not going to happen on a flight that is on automatic pilot. is it? >> right, but we're trianulating. we don't really know what happened. we have the -- >> again if it is on automatic pilot. the motion on the airplane, or -- >> sean, the problems we don't yet know that. all we're dealing with is a plane that was not trying to communicate, again that is the import...

Triple of course quadruple, if it went off the pilot would have been able to turn it back on via some battery pack system. >> if they're able. >> explain the payne system. he was in a lear jet if memory serves me right, we had fighter jets go up and actually they could see that everybody was already dead in the plane and they let it run out of fuel before the plane went down, right? >> right, they let it go because they could calculate exactly where it was going to come down. there was never a plan to shoot it down. you're right. >> right, but now on a boeing triple 7, was this the type of pla...

Recorded are, all right, good night. as a pilot, does that sound odd or unusual? >> no, not at all. that's as per normal operations. nothing usual about that. both of these guys would have been in the cockpit at that time for sure. >> as far as the shutdown as you mentioned of the data reporting, right now it is inexplicable to a professional pilot. there are a number of different pieces of equipment that report. some of them are the radios. that would be the pilot. other pieces are mechanical, the engines. how they shut down, it is not easy. it would have been deliberate. they didn't all go a...