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Recover expeditiously and they will use all of the other assets. that is the tools from air traffic control to try and piece together what's happened in this event. >> greg, we know that this plane model is a 2014 model, the newest, likely the safest model of this type of plane. do we know if there was a system in place within the plane that when this type of thing happens, it can signal something to the pilot? and if it does not have that, do we need to start rethinking this system to make sure all planes have that? >> that is a good question. in this particular instance because it is a turbo...

Costello has updated information. what have you got? >> we're now told by the jamaican military, they're refining their comments to say it did not crash on the island but rather in the ocean. this plane went down about 14 miles northeast of port antonio. so in the ocean, which would of course coincide with what our map is suggesting the last known track of the plane was still over the ocean and the jamaican authorities also said that they have sent an aircraft or two to investigate. as we know, the united states has a c-130 dispatched from clearwater, florida, to try to track this plane. those...

That is air traffic control information and things like that, pilot background and all of the information we can get from family. but the bigger issue will be whether or not they can recover a substantial amount of wreckage to determine if in fact there was a mechanical malfunction or failure that ended up being the facilitator of this type of event. >> on that point, we heard what bob hager said, this can come on slowly, that perhaps the pilot might not know it's occurring, that having a little trouble breathing but not noticing it that much. how do these type of incidents usually start? is i...

Off because they didn't want to violate cuban airspace. that plane now crossed over cuba and is on the way to jamaica. >> we've been going through the flight path of this plane. it took off a little bit after 8:30 eastern there in rochester, new york. we don't know how many people were onboard. it headed south there en route to naples, florida. you see there that dogleg where it turned which would have been turning to the left. turning east as it headed down toward naples. that happened right at about 10:00 eastern. 2 1/2 hours into the flight. at that moment the plane also descended from 28,0...

Happening? >> well, that's been the ongoing buzz all afternoon in the pilot community. are you able to detect hypoxia, the symptoms on yourself. now, keep in mind a professional pilot, one would assume an air force pilot or a commercial pilot would probably recognize that. they would also see the alarms inside the cockpit saying you've got a cabin pressure problem. but with a private pilot, maybe somebody who doesn't fly every day, would he be as versed in the symptoms? we don't know that. how would this happen? it could be an insidious leak of some sort. it may be something where he didn't ev...