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Also on 121.5. so you know, if they did have an emergency, they would have gone to 121.5 with the push of a button. and there it is. it is always there for that reason. >> yeah. >> i look at this right here. it could be confusing to somebody who uses it every day, it is not. there is a lot of buttons and a lot of stuff to enter. >> so he says -- go ahead. >> just to supplement to what he was saying. yes, there was could not faugs and we agree with that possible scenario. but that doesn't preclude the fact the emergency frequent spi we all monitor as pilots and air traffic controllers was proba...

Good they are. >> a lot of the u.s.'s latest military equipment on display out there as well, including the p.a. we have talked about this a bit, and you said it would be a mistake not to keep looking on land despite this huge deployment now and real focus in the south indian ocean. why is that? >> i firmly believe that. i'm not sure the configuration was, but i'm almost certain that the slide rafts in a ditching situation are provision with emergency locater transmitters. these elts, when they hit salt water, are activated. once they are activated they should send a signal to emergency freque...

Life rafts are strictly salt water activated ones that will only -- >> they actually are in life rafts. >> they are in the life rafts. now, there are some that are portable sometimes in the overhead bins you can remove and in another situation. but we're told in training that if you have to do a crash landing on the ground, it's a survivable situation and you have an elt available to you, which when the slide deployed you'd have that because they're slide rafts, you'd grab that elt and urinate on it. >> in order to get the salt to go off and signal go off. >> exactly. vhf emergency frequency a...

Airplane was about 30 minutes ahead which is a fair distance. and it's difficult -- the procedure that i was explaining before we went on air was that if the controllers are expecting an airplane at a certain spot, it seemed very compelling to me that they decided to attempt contact with the airplane. that means, where are they? in other words in their head they're saying, where is this airplane? so the first attempt would be to contact them on the frequency they were designated to be on. then they would attempt on the guard frequency, which is the emergency frequency. after that they would tr...

We know one thing from the thai radio report by the way. the report that came out today they said they did not enter thai air space. does that mean they weren't going north? i think so. >> unless you also -- there was also a report about another plane that had been contacted by authorities in vietnam to see if they could make contact with flight 370. to you, that's significant? >> yeah. my understanding is that that airplane was about 30 minutes ahead which is a fair distance. and it's difficult -- the procedure that i was explaining before we went on air was that if the controllers are expect...