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Members said "good night" to ground controllers. >> it prompted the crew to make a decision to do probably what is called a high dive, which is a rapid descent from an altitude where you can't breathe, down to an altitude to where you can, between 10,000 and 12,000 feet is what they're aiming for. that's that number 12,000 feet. when i heard that, any pilot is thinking the bells are ringing there. i should tell you that the -- at this point, they don't have a transponder that's operating on this aircraft. we don't know why that is. this is what's called a primary target, which means it's not b...

Radar is a system that sends a radio beam out and hits an object and could be a cloud or a bird or obviously an airplane. that signal is returned back. from that the radar controller can see the blip on the screen. with this airplane we don't know what altitude it was at when it made the turn around. we are not sure if it flies back to radio cover annage. in order for them to see the airplane, it would have to fly back. the tron responder was not transmitting. this was an extra packet. they are seeing altitude air speed heading and identified the airplane. it's a specific code. that goes along...

Is mack earnie on to something? >> tom has been my mentor on fox for over 13 years and he has theory. but if you had to list the top 10 theories, the idea of a rogue pilot landing on an air strip in southeast asia is the most remote. the indians have a robust monitoring system and pakistan as well. two indian fighters were dispatched it a radar blip that turned out to be a weather balloon. i am not saying their radar system is airtight but plopping a 70-ton aircraft in an air strip with 200 plus people aboard and not finding out 11

Imagery. don't look for u.s. military satellites to go down there. they have other national security needs that they are going to stick with, we are told. i think it would be very useful. it seems like we bounce back and forth every day. the northern, the southern, the most hopeful, all of that. let's just regroup for a second about what we are really talking about here. why the focus on the southern arc? it has never gone away as being the u.s. view that it is most likely the plane went down there. it may not have. the u.s. view has always been the southern arc. why do they say that? because ...

All of them are pitching in here. now, i want to clear up one thing, too. there was one rumor, a report that the thai military had picked up a blip on its radar screen. the thais are telling us, john, that's not true, we didn't see anything. and the search goes on. it is more of an aerial search now than anything else, trying to cover as much of that sea area as possible. john? >> yeah, you mentioned the thais are now saying they picked up no radar blip. they join kazakhstan, kyrgyzstan, india, pakistan, this litany of countries that say they have no radar contact, no radar indications of any ...