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Would have been very, very noticeable. an easy, gradual turn you can do in the middle of the night like that and be barely noticed. especially since it's dark. >> so mitchell, i want to get your -- your take on this. i want to read it to you because i don't know if you've heard exactly what has happened because you've been working on the different scenarios there. here's the information. they're saying that between 1:19 and 2:40 that military radar obviously showed the aircraft did have a change in altitude after making a sharp turn, okay, mitchell? over the south china sea. headed toward the ...

Shawn puchnicki. thanks to all of you for joining us. we have mitchell and martin back with us, right? >> yep. >> i understand, mitchell, captain weiss has a question for you. what do you have, captain? >> if you're going to do a high dive, going down to 12,000 feet from altitude, maybe you can show how quick -- how easy it is and how little time it takes to put an oxygen mask on and then communicate through that oxygen mask. you alluded to it earlier. >> we would love to do that except the simulator doesn't have oxygen masks. so we haven't got one we could actually, you know, yank out or hold...

Wallace,lewallace, less les abend and shawn puchnicki. miles o'brien, i understand you have a question. >> yes. there's quite a few variables including the wind and a lot of things. but i wonder if mitchell and martin could plug in the amount of fuel that would be projected to be onboard at that time. and project out at 12,000 feet with the fuel burn and see how far that aircraft would fly. have you done that yet, guys? >> no, we haven't. that's actually something that did occur to us. we were figuring what the fuel burn would be at 35,000, of course. then what it would be at 12,000. >> all ri...

They were still communicating even though they had a catastrophic fire. >> yeah. okay. stand by. go ahead. les wants to get in. >> well, i think everything that -- that marty and mitch are saying is absolutely true. you should communicate. but in the case of value yjet, they were already on departure control for miami. they were already talking to an air traffic controller. all they had to do was say, hey, we got this problem. and they headed -- they started to head back to the airport. in this particular case, they had been handed off to another frequency that they may not have been able to c...

>> you can communicate just as martin and mitchell said in the simulator. you can communicate very well just by hitting the yoke. assuming somebody's going to hear you. i'm not focusing on the lack of communication issue. >> shawn puchnicki, anything you want to ask our panel or you want to relay to martin and mitchell? >> not specifically them. but to everyone watching is that, you know, we need to be very aware that with -- we're making this statement that there was no communication. and we don't know that to be true. although we don't have any recordings of any -- of any communication, the ...