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We started in the 370 case. it would be nice if they had some rules which required, for example, that a transponder had to stay on or the satellite link could not be turned off by the crew and that would help a little bit. this was good. i mean, the malaysian airlines had a kind of a low-grade subscription on their satellite service. it would force them to upgrade to at least provide these 15-minute position reports. bear in mind, jake, every 15 minutes an airliner travels about 100 nautical miles. so it's not that precise. >> miles, when the malaysia airlines flight went missing earlier this ...

Radar dot somewhere and now it remind me we're almost back to where we were in 1941 before pearl harbor where we lose the entire japanese air force somewhere over the pacific. i mean, how much are we blinded still as to what's going on in the air? >> well, we -- you are being tracked by air traffic control whatever you're with -- in an airplane. there's no question of that. if there is radar coverage then it is what is known as positive control. if you're out over the water, oceanic control takes over and pilots report given points in space and they report that to air traffic control who separ...

Was in singapore today, said nothing but blue skies. absolutely gorgeous weather today, so unlikely weather played any role in this. give me a sense, two hours into a flight, what's going on, from a -- the standpoint of altitude -- you're at cruising altitude. does that mean everything is on autopilot at that point? >> typically, yes. even early in the climb, the pilots will typically put the aircraft on autopilot, and by the time you're at cruise, things are settling back. sometimes on these longer flights, they have actually three pilots aboard. and by that time, the captain will have sent t...