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Pennsylvania and into restricted airspace without being detected. an alarming vulnerability in what is supposed to be the most secure airspace in the world. deb? >> renee who joins us live. first of all, remarkable to see just how close he got. who is in charge of monitoring airspace in front of the capitol? could anything have been done once he got as far as he did? >> reporter: we know the airspace is under control of the faa, but when it comes to this hypersensitive space of this portion in washington, d.c. there are many agencies that have their eyes on this airspace 24/7 including the faa...

About calculating outer distance of a radar, assuming you'd know that a pilot but that is your altitude. wouldn't you want to know what altitude they were at? >> exactly. and that's been a mystery all along. we've had reports of altitude. at one point, 5,000. and when you're landing, air traffic control can follow you down almost to the runway. society altitude would be very, very important. and really what i think they were saying is, they went out and around to an area where indonesia just wouldn't be paying attention to them. they wouldn't send the military planes, for example, if they're o...