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Norad. so, mike, the faa i understand is issuing kind of a traveling tfr, a temporary flight restriction moving with this thing up the east coast. you have a very busy air corridor which is the number one concern. number two concern i think would be population on the ground. what is norad's role and what can you tell us about a location on this? >> well, brian, thanks for asking the public safety question. right now, as jim mentioned earlier, it's holding steady at about 16,000 feet. last report about 15 minutes ago was over new wilmington, pennsylvania. it is traveling north, not quite sure o...

No reason to think that they won't be able to find them. and as soon as the weather permits they can get those pinger locators working again as well. i think they will. >> do you find there is greater relevancy of this new investigation into airasia indonesia or is this a peripheral element as crews continue to search for the victims and the wreckage? >> no, i think this is probably the tip of the iceberg of what we're going to find. our federal aviation administration actually grades foreign countries on their compliance with aviation safety regulations and many times the faa has found indone...

Not dipping into the arena of speculation, and they are waiting to gather information and making it clear that they are ready and willing to work with the investigators once it moves to the investigative stage. we know that here in the united states the ntsb has the lines of communication open with the air airbus, and the french equivalent of the ntsb, and they are talking to the indonesian ss as well, and the the lines of communication is open, but the primary goal at this point is finding the wreckage because until that is done there is but so much to figure out without the wreckage. martin....

David, specifically, the notion that this plane disappeared from radar for about 120 nautical miles and what the malaysians have deduced is a dip to below 5,000 feet. why would a plane do that? they suggest that when you dip that low, the pilots could have been trying to avoid the frequently traveled air corridors. does that make sense? >> this makes sense but air corridors are not 120 miles wide. why would he drop down and come back up like a helicopter? i don't understand that information at all. now, if what they're saying is this is the mark where it went off and came back on, that makes a...

So whoever dropped the plane down to 12,000 feet wasn't trying to evade the radar, but they were well below a heavily traveled air corridor. planes travel on the highways in the sky, they share the air space with lots of other aircraft. 12,000 feet allowed this flight 370 to avoid all that air traffic, but they were still on the radar being tracked until about 2:40 a.m. >> will ripley, the day is just beginning. any word on if officials will comment about the drop in altitude of this plane? >> no official comment. cnn confirmed this through a source with very close knowledge of this investigat...