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“Argentina completed the first sale to Nigeria of a radar for civil use built by INVAP SE, which landed today in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, and will be used for air traffic control in the African country…"
The radar systems would be able to detect jets and drones at a range of altitutes.
Saying. someone did turn that aircraft. it was by hand. i suspect by the auto pilot because the navigation systems are not connected to the communication systems that have been disabled. so i'm very convinced that someone took this aircraft, took it off course and flew it again with the altitude information from the "wall street journal," i don't put a lot of credibility into that because i just don't believe in primary radar that much. so the fact that it went both directions, yes. >> let me jump in. i am not an expert here nor are most of the people watching this. so let's presume that theor...
Many flights. is it possible that somebody could have commandeered this plane and got as far as somewhere like pakistan as some people are suggesting? >> absolutely. there was enough fuel on the airplane to do that. whether without -- you would think that if that airplane had been over a land mass, someone's radar would have been able to pick that up. and it certainly at this point, political pressures alone, i would think, would have determined that the pakistani government or another government would have determined that the radar tapes should be shown to everybody on board. >> if you know w...
Analysis there. but what is your gut feeling with a lot of expertise in your locker about what you think is probably happened here? >> we have increasingly detailed theories based on very little information. it's very hard to say. it is easy to reconcile the changes in altitude given the lack of fidelity of the ra radar. the malaysians won't say how good their radar is. that's a defense secret. it's harder to reconcile the changes in direction. people will postulate, maybe there were lithium batteries on board, maybe they had a fire, progressive electrical failure. we just don't have the infor...