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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 try to relay through another airplane. so it indicates to me that maybe the problem was developing but for that other airplane, it's not uncommon to not be able to contact them as a favor to air traffic control to relay information. so they probably...

Re-established. we spoke to air traffic control telling them where we were, what the problem had been, and we were going to resume our flight path. we probably didn't speak to air traffic control. we spoke on the pilot's emergency frequency. it works much better than air traffic control. >> it's amazing the story you've just told us. it's a gripping and heroing tale. given the experience and what you know and all vast things we don't know about this missing flight. what's your gut tell you about what maybe went wrong here? >> well, my very first impression because i'm oriented to think that wa...

To deal with. it's not like turning off the transponder. >> a couple questions here. how easy is it? let's say it was under duress. this is speculation. we're get iting pieces to the puzzle. we're like police investigators pulling this together. if it was under duress, it would have been easy to send one of the sly i'm being hijacked signals because they make it easy in the cockpit to send that signal, is that right? >> i'm not going to give the number out. turn the transponder to the emergency frequency. jim, if they disabled the system, then they certainly knew what they were doing about tra...

According to flight aware, and they had begun to level off when they lost this contact. >> there are obviously a lot of possibilities here. i don't want to go down the road of speculation at all. because frankly, there are no doubt people watching this who are trying to find out information about their loved ones. but in terms of search and rescue operations, we just talked to the representative from the airline. he didn't really have a lot of details on exactly what was going on. clearly they are trying to make contact with anybody along the route, local authorities along the route, for any p...

Sailor that by steering that ship once it was stricken, once it was taking on water, by steering it into the shallows, that's why it has not sunk the way the titanic or so many ill-fated vessels before the costa concordia have sunk. he rammed her up on shore so it didn't completely sink and, therefore, he claims that he didn't recklessly endanger those lives or, indeed, take the lives through his reckless disregard, his manslaughter of the 11 who are dead. but he saved the lives of the thousand because the vessel didn't entirely sink, and it was rammed up against the shore so the passengers co...