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It was at of contact for two hours. apt at that point the pentagon declared the helicopter missing knowing it did not have any fuel left. the question at this hour is this. did the pilot run into a fuel problem and simply put the helicopter down in a remote mountainous area and they cannot get a message out? their communications gear not able to get past the high mountains in nepal or did something more dire happen here. was there some sort of crash. what we do know is there have been several reports of a helicopter seen in the area. they put other aircraft into the air for 90 minutes when tho...

And find these people. >> okay. let's remain hopeful. barbara starr, thank you very much. lieutenant colonel james reece, springboarding off of barbara's point when she talks about imagine you're on this huey, after midnight, it's dark mountainous, as she was pointing out. communication can be a challenge. can you walk through and -- and if these reports accurate they could be worried about fuel -- just the challenges there. what you would be thinking as the pilot? >> sure. right now, that altitude where these guys are flying is challenging, not for the pilots but the aircraft themselves. it's...

Pilot to believe the best thing to do would be go straight ahead. that may have been something. he not have been able to turn the airplane. >> perhaps he thought he still had engine functionality with respect to the second engine if the first went down. >> and i heard that speculation earlier with possible fuel problem where you have an engine fail and shortly thereafter another engine fails. >> we do know this particular airline is a division of a larger airline. they put out a statement that says we do not yet know what happened to the flight. our deepest sympathy goes to the families and fr...

To be something else involved. i've flown over that area, low levels when i was flying 111's in europe. as well as f-16's. that's why i think that something else has to be involved with it. >> like what? >> what do you think? >> well, you don't know if it's weather. you don't know if it's a fuel problem. contamination in the fuel that had a problem on the other engine. and so there are a host of things that could have been involved. but the 320 is a safe airplane that can fly on single engines. that's why i'm speculating again. >> something more complicated. >> i've got very little information...

Conversation with the defense. you asked him what military assets were on their way and he says? >> effectively they are not. >> and i for a moment i just felt loss i didn't. i couldn't believe the answer. i said you have got to tell those guys there may not be any help coming. >> and there wasn't any help coming. now the defense attache in libya was lt. colonel keith phillips who says there was a fuel problem in getting air power to libya. but with all the warning, shouldn't the u.s. military have been on alert in that region? of course. of course they have you had been. so, here is the overa...