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>> well, what we heard was something that hasn't really been raised since the early days of the search. the passenger's mother raising the issue of the idea she feels it's gone up to kazakhstan to the north. we haven't talked about this for a long time because we've been focusing on the southern indian ocean, but when inmarsat analyzes ping data, the ping data itself is symmetrical, meaning every time you pass to the south, there's equally a pass to the north. and i think the assumption has been all along on the part of the authorities, well, it couldn't have gone to the north, it just seems t...

Question like an engineer. you did not ask me about the pings, sorry. if you have reliable ping data, in the general area from the southern route predicted by the inmarsat data, that's absolutely viable and credible. if it's from a credible source. for instance, the malaysians have given us different stories, the public, as well in their own country, and throughout the world on what happened. frankly, i don't trust anything the malaysian government says today. >> okay. all right. let's move on now. i want to talk -- get past the conspiracy theories. again working on the reality that we have, r...

How confidence is the company that that is what happened to 370 that it ended in the water. >> very reluctantly, we've been looking at the ping data for the last six or serven days, comparing it with other malaysian airlines, triple 777 in the region and looking at the flight data we can get from the pings. we mapped those pings against the southern and northern route. i can say there's a strong correlation with the southern route, and absolutely no correlation with the north, that it went south. >> you can rule out that northern route? >> yes. >> can you say, though, that with 100% certainty,...

Vice president of -- they want to know for sure. are you 100% sure the plane went down in the indian ocean? >> well, we are as sure -- we have been looking at the ping data for the last six or seven days comparing it on our network with other malaysia airlines. it has enabled us to correlate the ping data with the southern indian ocean. there is simply no match. on that basis after it was peer reviewed by another satellite

Like our ntsb validated inmatsat ping data and maylay radar tapes? and i want to pose that one to patrick smith. what's the possibility about that? chad mentioned that and he said we need to get the other ping information from them. >> yeah, we're getting all sorts of garbled information, unconfirmed information. i think it goes without saying that everything needs to be put on the table and vetted a little more carefully before we have a stronger against of what happened. meanwhile, to back up a minute, i'm going to side with richard on that last argument about global air safety. >> you're no...