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Never been used before. but based on that, mark, and you're a pilot, a 777 pilot. based on that, they have notified the family members that it's over. >> well, and, again, going back to what we were talking about before. we think that some of this is really to put some closure for the families themselves. but with the chinese government, they had over 150 families on board that aircraft. and i think what the chinese government wants to do is present to both the world and certainly to their people that we are really investigating this. we don't want to put out speculation. we want facts to be a...

Disappearance. let's bring back our panel, our aviation analyst, former american airlines pilot, mark weise, who has flown 777s. also our aviation analyst, former ntsb managing director, peter goelz and tom fuentes, our law enforcement analyst, former assistant director of the fbi. so they say now, and you're a pilot, that they -- that the pilot in this particular case did make a phone call on his cell phone about seven or eight minutes before takeoff. what's so unusual about that? >> nothing. >> that's what i thought. >> nothing. >> now, here's the next follow-up. how hard is it to find out w...

Actually programmed to make that sharp left turn. even though it didn't necessarily make it then, it was programmed. and what does that say to you? >> well, i think if it holds up, it's pretty damning evidence that whatever was going on in the cockpit, the pilot and the co pilot had to have known about it. one of them had to have entered the data. but i'll defer to mark. >> what does that say to you, mark? >> well, first of all, i'm not sure who would have gotten that information, that it happened 12 minutes before. >> the programming. >> it was programmed there. i'm not sure how that data wou...

Space. may not have gone through their radar space. >> here's another question, mark. mary kirk patrick wants to know, why wouldn't the flight attendants alert air traffic control that something was amiss on the flight? >> well, you have to alert air traffic control from the cockpit. >> you can't do it from the -- beyond the cockpit? >> no, you can't. >> no button you can push that a chief flight attendant or anybody could push? we've got a serious problem here? >> there's no method in the cabin. >> why is that? that sounds like that's a problem. >> well, i'm not sure that's really a problem. ...

The point where they can feel comfortable. >> i understand it's not really all that hard to retrieve deleted data from these hard drives. unless it was done in a very, very sophisticated way. >> well, that's the question. depends on how much it was deleted. i think we all have this impression when we delete e-mails or files that they disappear. they don't disappear. experts, particularly the kinds of experts the fbi has, that do this on a regular basis, they can piece it together like pieces of a puzzle. you know, that it might not all be in one piece, but they could bring them together and ge...