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Miles, in other words. i'd love to get that information. i don't know if somebody on the ground in kuala lumpur can help us with that. >> i'm sure our folks are listening and will try to get it for you. les, do you agree with that? >> i do. that rough calculation. a sharp left turn, then a rapid descent down to 12,000 feet. what happened? we are trying to figure it out. we're working on more information on this missing flight, flight 370, right after this break. i'm beth... and i'm michelle. and we own the paper cottage. it's a stationery and gifts store. anything we purchase for the paper c...

You have been saying all along there was something catastrophic that happened in the cockpit. ie, a fire. they were trying to get low enough to get the toxic air out of the cabin and out of the cockpit. correct? >> that may have been part of the procedure. it was obviously an urgent situation. if that's indeed the case. once again, we've got military radar we've kind of ben skeptical on whether it's accurate. 12,000. this kind of feeds into my scenario a little bit. i'm not doing an i told you so thing. the investigation process is ongoing. >> your scenario is? >> my scenario is the fact that ...

It? >> because they are incredibly busy. at 35,000 feet, if they had 30 seconds they were lucky to get the mask on. that would also explain if the timing is right, now, we've had such terrible time with information from the authorities on timing. but if the timing's right, there was also an attempt by another plane to contact them. and they said all they heard was some of the garbled, stackicky message. that would explain that. you have an oxygen mask on. you have probably something else going in the cockpit. but i think this point's clearly to a catastrophic event on the plane such as a decom...

Meaning you shouldn't have to pull out a checklist. this is something you should do from memory. they drill it like crazy. there's no question this is something that you get in simulator sessions all the time. i would like to throw out one important question. i'm not sure we have the answer. but i'd like to get it out there to see if we can get somebody on the ground to get the answer. a really key question, les, bear me out on this. captain john rigas, a friend of mine who has a lot of experience flying various aircraft, said a standard descent from 35,000 feet to 12,000 would take about 69 m...

About how information has changed one from being accurate to not accurate. but if that is accurate, the idea is that it looks like it could have been a controlled descent. i think that's important as opposed to the aircraft just descending as if it's crashing. or intentionally dropped to 12,000 feet by the pilots. >> okay. stand by. les? >> well, it's -- it's a great point. i think that if there was some compelling reason to get down lower, albeit loss of pressurization or a fire, you know, to evacuate the smoke, there was a very compelling reason to do it, it probably still would have been do...