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You have to remember the communication satellite it was some amazingly clever engineering which allowed them to even figure out roughly where this plane might be. it's not very accurate. so the assumption that this 60,000-square-mile box is the place where the aircraft is is not a good one. it's going to take some time. it took two years to find air france 447 and we had wreckage on the surface within five days. now, one of the things that's interesting is what if this aircraft what if there had been some sort of hacking attempt on this aircraft what if they got into the electronics bay and sp...

Of time that this happened we have back-up systems. we have ways -- if we have a fly-by-wire airplane -- and that doesn't mean fly by wi-fi -- we are able to totally disconnect that system and almost fly the airplane manually. we're sending electronic signals to flight controls. but i'm very skeptical this guy was able to do it. you would have to have a separate piece of equipment that would go into our electronics bay inside the fuselage of the aircraft and be able to guide this airplane either from the cabin, from the ground. you know we talked about this on other discussions with other airp...

An external source into our electronics bay of the airplane in other words the brains of the airplane. someone would have to have knowledge how to get in there and connect it appropriately and this has been done by boeing in the way they were attempting to make it a pilotless airplane. this is being thought out down the road. but this kind of stuff and system has to be set up prior to it. i don't see that this man tweeted the fact that he took control of the aircraft -- i very, very much doubt that occurred. i'm sure the fbi is going to the crew to say did your airplane make an unnecessary tur...

If i'm wrong -- that's about a 2,500 feet a minute rate of descent, which isn't a terribly a lot. we start to do that if we have a crossing restriction out of cruising altitude. so sounds like that's a controlled descent situation. but it was definitely an expedited situation that they realized they had a problem, mechanical problem, something that consumed them enough that they were taken away from the aspect of communication. why that happened, i don't know. that is a little disturbing to me from the standpoint of did their communication equipment break down for the reason that they were sta...

Couldn't have gone south? is that data compatible in any way with it going north? the 777 has a hatch that's unlocked and accessible from the passenger cabin that leads to what's called an electronics bay where basically the electronic brains of the computer are located. it controls the entire plane and, indeed connects with the satellite data unit responsible for the signals that were used to determine it went south. conceivably, those signaled were spoofed, were tampered with. a report just issued today kind of adds some questions to that because it turns out that this system -- you can turn...