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Abrupt changes in flight 370's altitude what does this tell us about the skills potential hijacker may have needed. joining us is d.j. frost. thanks for jing us this morning. >> good morning. >> so, when you look at this altitude issue now, the erratic changes in altitude and avoiding radar detection, what does that tell you about the type of person that must have been in the cockpit and handling this flight at that time? >> well, those erratic it altitude changes climbs and decent suggest some kind of struggle going on in that aircraft. maybe a fire in the cockpit or struggle with possible hi...
Plane, how easy would it be to land a plane like that, given the wide area it could have landed, without any radar detection? >> well, i think if you get low enough you don't worry about radar. you can fly this thing on what we call map of the earth where you're right down on the deck. could this cap have done that? i don't know. but i would love to see the authorities get into his home and download whatever is left on his simulator. because that's a very sophisticated simulator. and he may have done a lot of practice. it would take a lot of skill and practice to bring that airplane that low i...
Talking about a few moments ago would be the underwater ones. so i still question if the original search, which i understand was by the vietnamese navy, did they really listen underwater with underwater microphones? or in the right part of the world zble world. >> exactly. >> in terms of a 777 plane, obviously very big, very modern plane, how easy would it be to land a plane like that, given the wide area it could have landed, without any radar detection? >> well, i think if you get low enough you don't worry about radar. you can fly this thing on what we call map of the earth where you're rig...
Intentionally turning off the jetliner as transponders to avoid radar detection. >> those reports are inaccurate. the last transmission from the aircraft was at 0107 which indicates that everything was normal. >> the search has resulted in one notable thing, rare scrutiny for a government that has for all purposes fumbled its handling of this disaster on the world stage. joining me to hash this all out is jim tillman, an aviation expert and former american airlines pilot. thanks for joining me, jim. >> my pleasure. >> let's begin with the new wall street journal report, do you think it was pos...