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Trafficked in terms of a shipping route and is relatively shallow. does that help? >> of course it helps. it's going to help with the -- if indeed tom is correct with the meteorological report about the seas calming down you know if we have an unfortunate situation where the airplane is in fragments, they're going to be able to at least locate those fragments quick erer. the fact it is a smaller area, we also have primary radar data from my understanding. so even if the airplane did potentially break apart or drift out without enough power for it to have a discreet code sent out as through a t...

Does that give any indication to what happened or could that just be a separate mechanical failure? >> that's what investigators are going to look at. they're going to want to see where that exact transponder failure occurred and whether or not there was actual radar coverage in that particular area. because the transponder provides a discreet code. it provides altitude information and ground speed. if the rest of the radar data after that is just what we call a skin paint where you're not getting an actual altitude, you're just getting a track of the airplane until radar coverage is fwoen or ...

An hour after the flight, which we think is possibly an hour before total contact was lost. does that give any indication to what happened, or could that just be a separate mechanical failure? >> that's what investigators are going to look at. they're going to want to see where that exact transponder failure occurred and whether or not there was actual radar coverage in that particular area because the transponder provides a discreet code. it provides altitude information and ground speed. if the rest of the radar data after that is just what we call a skin paint where you're not getting an ac...

Essentially indicate where the flight was stopped working about an hour after the flight which we think is possibly an hour before total contact was lost. does that give any indication to what happened or could that just be a separate mechanical failure? >> that's what investigators are going to look at. they're going to want to see where that exact transponder failure occurred and whether or not there was actual radar coverage in that particular area. because the transponder provides a discreet code. it provides altitude information and ground speed. if the rest of the radar data after that i...