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Directed off of course. >> if you're an air traffic controller and your plane makes a turn like that, are you going to tell me the air traffic controller is not being proactive and saying where the heck are you going? 12 minutes later they say all right, good night. he makes the turn, then says all right, good night. the other side of the dialogue, the guy with the microphone says where the heck are you going? >> that information would have been, according to our experts, transmitted to the acars which was not off yet. >> what is interesting, if it was a hijacking, even by the pilot, they pick...

Went on for seven hours. my question to you, could a automatic pilot procedure keep a plane flying on a straight line for seven hours without anybody alive on the plane? a zombie flight, if you will. could that happen? >> is it possible? absolutely, yes. no question. >> so there is no dead man switch like in railroads. if you're dead, the plane keeps flying? >> if the entire crew is incapacitated, the autopilot is engaged and the flight management computer has a path or route to fly, it will fly that. if it doesn't, if it hits what is known as a discontinuity, it will fly a heading and continu...

Radars, but they're low frequency and not used that often. but normal radars, if you get behind terrain, it's very difficult. the submarines use those thermal layers to hide themselves. >> a plane flying over or near the u.s. fortunately is much less likely to disappear due to the density of civilian and military radar monitoring incoming and outgoing air traffic, especially since 9/11. norad rests high in the mountains and uses surveillance aircraft to monitor the u.s. air defense zone. >> we're very integrated in the united states, and there's really no way you can get off the radar scope if...

Immarsat and this is high quality. >> i have an admonition not to speculate, but we're left with very little information, captain cox, and that is that the flight went on for seven hours. my question to you, could a automatic pilot procedure keep a plane flying on a straight line for seven hours without anybody alive on the plane? a zombie flight, if you will. could that happen? >> is it possible? absolutely, yes. no question. >> so there is no dead man switch like in railroads. if you're dead, the plane keeps flying? >> if the entire crew is incapacitated, the auto pilot is engaged and the fl...

Reverend wright? or do we expect it to be invoked. tv ads, billboards, and a plane flying over the democratic national convention? are we going to hear more about reverend wright? >> i think the american people absolutely rejected this hateful attack when it surfaced today, whether democratic or republican or independent. senator mccain spoke out against these sorts of attacks in 2008, made clear this is off-limits for his campaign, his communication director -- >> is it race-baiting? >> he wouldn't have made these sorts of ads. >> is it race-baiting? they wanted a conservative black man to, t...