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Be that the vot would be released at the same time. again, none of this is clear at the moment. we really need to wait for it, if you will, objective details and information that comes to the sailors, themselves, and obviously from the navy. >> we know there were nine men, one woman, two crafts there, in the shallow waters of the persian gulf. they were going from kuwait i believe to bahrain and there is an early reporting that maybe it was a navigational issue. maybe a gas issue, nic. a fuel issue. for some reason, they were where they were not supposed to be. >> or a mechanical issue. you kn...

Not out of the question that they could have been off course. a narrow water way. >> it is. the island is between the saudi arabia coast and the iranian coast. going back to the 2007 with the british, it was finally determined this was in waters that were controlled neither by iran more by iraq which was the case back then. this may be slightly different, but we've been told that possibly the sailors had navigation problems or possibly a fuel issue, possibly they had a mechanicl issues. the iranians are saying the it was a navigational issue. it's a get out clause for all sides. that's the lan...

Of the crew. it's really an awful picture that we're painting as we learn more details. >> on tuesday when this helicopter disappeared, it was conducting a humanitarian mission. hit just dropped off a load of badly needed supplies to the remote mountain villages that have been cut off since the earthquakes. it was on its way back. there was a report of a radio transmission possibly a fuel problem. we believe the helicopter was heading back east towards katmandu from a location about 80 miles. it got within 21 miles of the city. and then of course the helicopter lost contact. was it a fuel issu...

>> as far as we know, that the last communication. there was radio transmission that the helicopter had some sort after fuel issue and then nothing in receive rool days that searchers have been looking for it. no emergency beacon detected. no phone calls from a satellite phone. no radio transmissions. now all we know is this helicopter has been spotted. 11,000 feet up. very rugged terrain. mountainous terrain. very difficult even for aerial sear ofs to get an eye on the ground because the clouds are so low. but there is a nepali helicopters that spotted this plane, according to brigadier gener...

He could have landed. and when you look at the map you've got up there right now and the route from barcelona up to germany, you can see if he had gone to the west, there is dijon and other airfields he could have gone to. that is what is confusing. i don't have any of those facts. >> maybe it was a fuel issue. you brought up something else i thought was telling. this is an aircraft that is highly automated has the ability to fly and land successfully. perhaps the fuel took out the one engine and took out the second. maybe he wasn't aware, thought he could make it. >> when you go on a single e...