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Looking. that's the waters off australia's west coast. the question is, how could the pane have flown that far without being detected by radar? everything we know so far, at least we have been told, has come from satellite. david mattingly is "out front." >> reporter: with all the technology, all the sophisticated systems, all the different planes air traffic has managed on tens of thousands of flights a day flying under the radar to essentially disappear sounds ridiculously easy and surprisingly, it's not the only way for a 777 to avoid detection. how likely is it that this flight was able to...

>> exactly. primary radar lost around 100, 150 miles. after 200 miles, what air traffic controllers rely what called a synthetic air picture. that is built up using bits of information, the first is acars, acars will send inform was to the air line, it will send things like burn rates and fuel rates and all the rest to have but also a gps position much the other way air traffic is worked sought a procedural piece. they will deconflict by biff givening each airlinary specific mack number to fly, different mack number, procedurally separated through that and through altitude. that's wait they bu...

Can't be accessed and turned off while in fight. well, that discussion never got to the point of these types of transresponders being installed in the u.s. or overseas but situations like what we are looking at right now are so rare, we will have to wait and see if that discussion pops up at all. all right, david mattingly, thank you very much. pretty amazing there, what he was able to show us. i want to talk more about the possibility that the plane was able to elude radar and what happened with bill nye, the science guy and a former boeing engineer and michael kay, former plight and british ...

All commonly, inaccurately, refer to as the black box. i know you're an expert on that mike, let me bring you in here first. what about -- what do you think? take nothing account here, you have a play -- a i know flight isn't the right word, but the track of where this flight was going to go was reprogrammed, the data we communicate to ground traffic chrome was turned off, the plane turns and appears to head into the middle of no where. >> yeah. >> some of the place on earth where there is no radar. >> let's rewind and look at some of the ways we can actually tract jet through the air. the fir...

Were five run ways in the indian ocean programmed on the flight simulator in the pilot's home? >> i -- no. just -- it's very improbable. yeah. it's not something that i think any professional crew, regardless of nefarious ideas, would even attempt. >> right. so i guess it's conceivable, if indeed that, indeed, we have no idea, if the pilot tried to do it and perhaps failed. i think all these run ways in this area, the plane is not there. >> probably not. >> right. >> probably not. >> all right. les abend, thank you very much. we appreciate it. and thanks also to mitchell and to martin. so many...