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Communicate back to the ground when the fuel -- the aircraft ran out of fuel and it crashed. >> miles, why does that not convince you? >> well, in the case of helios first of all, there were radio calls indicating there was difficulty before they lost consciousness. secondly why the route changes? if in fact this was the ghost plane scenario in theory it would have flied the pre-programmed route to beijing. why would it have made that securitious route to the south? i'm sure you can come up with a scenario where they were trying to come back to a field. >> richard, you read the map here richar...

Appear to be terrorist. what's your best judge of what happened? they are not specialists on what happens to airplanes in cockpits. i don't blame the intelligence committee for doing the assessment but be careful. >> you are an aviation guy. when you see the report what do you think? they are things that have never been explained. why certain electronics were shut off when they were. >> i want to thank phil for that assessment. that's what i have been fighting for the last two days on the report. it doesn't tell you why it was turned. it doesn't tell you that it was 100% changed, but does tell...

To accept that and understand that, but i do believe there will be a time where they will stop the search. >> cnn's richard quest has been analyzing this report, looking through it, and he indicates there was a massive failure between civilian and military radar and air traffic control. is that your analysis as well? >> joe, that is so critical. richard hit it right on the head with that, because that 17-minute period in which the aircraft had been handed off from one control area to the other, it should have been no more than five minutes of no contact. but there were 17 minutes and during th...

Tweets. david soucie, nick murphy says what is the purpose of flying this plane through several course changes until it ran out of fuel? >> if i knew that i would know a lot more than i know now. i can't imagine a purpose. i did come up with something recently. we started thinking about what is the purpose of flying around that channel? what if it was to avoid a populated area. we went tightright to the nefarious intent. but to go to the maintenance base coming around there, and realize there was a problem. he may have been trying to avoid land. >> interesting, jim tilmon, this is from jerry, ...

The purpose of flying this plane through several course changes until it ran out of fuel? >> if i knew that, i'd know a lot more than i know now. i can't imagine what purpose it would be. i did come up with something recently, we started thinking what would be the purpose of flying up around that channel. what if it was to avoid the airplane crashing into a populated area. i'm not sure we've discuss thad too much. because we went right to the nefarious event. but if that aircraft, to go to their maintenance base, he may have been trying to avoid land. >> interesting. this one is from jerry, je...