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The flight of the plane of this. if you have a plane flying along at 35,000 feet using fuel for 7 1/2 hours, yes, it flies for a very long time. that is not true if you have a plane flying for a different level. now, you are burning an extraordinary amount of energy. you may be having 30%, 40% efficiency you had at 35,000 feet. planes are meant to fly at the stratosphere. so much more density of molecules. fly low to the ground as mary pointed out, you are going over the himalayas.

Transsponder would stop working? >> it could. >> peter does that jibe with what you understood as well? >> theoretically it could. but the 777 has multiple redundancies for this kind of potential failure. as a last resort it has what's known as a ram jet generator. they can drop this generator. it deploys beneath the aircraft. and the forward speeds generate enough electricity to run their basic avionics and to run their trn their transponder transponder. it's very perplexing. >> i talked to an in many of former pilots all who believe something catastrophic and quick must have happened. if wha...

>> it could. >> peter does that jibe with what you understood as well? >> theoretically it could. but the 777 has multiple redundancies for this kind of potential failure. as a last resort it has what's known as a ram jet generator. they can drop this generator. it deploys beneath the aircraft. and the forward speeds generate enough electricity to run their basic avionics and to run their their transponder transponder. it's very perplexing. >> i talked to an in many of former pilots all who believe something catastrophic and quick must have happened. if what we now have learned today about thi...

Were not being used by any terrorists, but more likely and probably being used by some kind of dry run drug smuggling operation? >> yeah. and another alternative is dry run for another terrorist event and we've seen dry runs take place in the past. for instance, there was a ramzi yousef, the mastermind of the first trade center attack, he blew up a bomb on a plane flying in the pacific and he killed a japanese tourist, and he was really using that as basically an experiment to then go blow up another 12 planes, but again, we just don't know, and i'm not an expert on stolen passports, i guess t...

There were two people traveling on stolen passports, is it more likely, given what we now know about the lack of checks with interpol backup system and so on, that the stolen passports were not being used by any terrorists, but more likely and probably being used by some kind of dry run drug smuggling operation? >> yeah. and another alternative is dry run for another terrorist event and we've seen dry runs take place in the past. for instance, there was a ramzi yousef, the mastermind of the first trade center attack, he blew up a bomb on a plane flying in the pacific and he killed a japanese t...