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Would present a less hostile dot in the sky to the indonesian authorities. i'm skeptical to anybody claiming to know why something happened in this situation. >> as an fbi mentor taught me many years ago, when you have many possibilities that are equal, that means you have no probability. i think that's what they're dealing with now. they have a million reasons. david, would a pilot know what the outer limit was of this radar 200 miles or so? and if you were trying to avoid radar, isn't it about your altitude and not your breadth of expanse away from it? >> absolutely. the lower you get, the t...

Nefarious. wise counsel suggests for the moment we take the fact and we leave it there. >> is it your feeling that malaysian authorities knew this for some time and needed to further investigate or this is indeed a new discovery? >> no, no. they've known this for weeks, we've known it for weeks. from the very first in march set, from the first diagram or map we got on the 25th of march, it had the turn out to the west and down to the south. so we've -- in fact, on this network many of us have commented that it was an interesting aspect that the plane was skirting the northern coast of indonesi...

Figure out how to avoid radar detection? does a pilot know where to fly specifically geographically to be able to do so undetected? >> well, certainly an experienced pilot who had had had been in that region for quite some time would understand where the radars begin and end and where the radio hand-offs occur. so it does take a little bit of knowledge and experience, frankly, to understand all of that. and what's also interesting about this route, as it is laid out, is it appears it goes to the designated way pit points that we use. these arbitrary intersections in the sky that air traffic co...