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Vice president at gebhart government affairs. great to see you both again. let me start with you on this, scott. your thoughts first of all, on the circumstances we've seen tonight. last we spoke of course it was mh-370 and the question was how does an airplane just disappear. are we in any familiar territory here? because once again we have an airplane that disappears. and so far no sign of it. >> i think early on -- i hope that is not the case. with the malaysia flight we had an issue where the pilot had signed off. and then we had a radar track of it flying back over the peninsula. here we ...

And so far no sign of it. >> i think early on -- i hope that is not the case. with the malaysia flight we had an issue where the pilot had signed off. and then we had a radar track of it flying back over the peninsula. here we have a pilot asking to go up to a higher elevation and then losing contact with the aircraft. so i think the similarities just are not there for this flight. but it's still very alarming that we haven't really seen anything of it yet. >> what does it tell you scott, that there was no distress call? >> it tells me a couple things. it tells me one that either something cat...

Is it possible it's still flying or very unlikely that that is a scenario, that it has -- >> first of all, it wouldn't have had that much fuel or enough fuel to get from indonesia up to singapore and an alternative and enough fuel to get back again. but certainly it would have been fuel exhausted many hours by now. and the issue, i mean could it of a run out of fuel during the flight. highly unlikely. what we're looking for here is the pilot giving some sort of warning, some sort of may day, and what we have is a pilot asking for higher altitude because of bad weather. and that's where the sta...