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Where this plane could have gone down and not have been spotted. how many of those areas exist? >> those exist in many places when you are under oceanic procedures. once you are outside of land or outside of radar range, you are not in any sort of physical contact if you disable the airplane system. swavlling around t -- traveling the globe you won't have data much like if you were driving in your car cell phone would drop out and come back in. those are little spots around the globe and they do experience that. when you are traveling outside of land outside of radar range if you disable some ...

Continuing to slow down. here's the radar now out of new orleans. and there is the center. and here is the worst weather. so where you see the oranges on the radar, that's the worst weather. there's also very bad weather behind it, but it is out of radar range. i'm going to look at a radar simulation. this is a future radar. it's an rpm computer simulation we run here at the weather channel. watch the oranges and reds. there we are on this afternoon. here it comes slowly. here we are this evening at 6:00, 7:00 eastern, here we are with midnight. according to the simulation, the center is still...

Where the radar scan then failed as far as limitation was concerned. the airplane flew out of its radar range. >> military radar sounds fancy and sounds comprehensive but it's actually not. you got no data back. could be any craft moving through that space. >> correct. all it does is get a skin paint, a primary target. it says something is out there. we don't know what it is and it's not identified like the civilian radar interrogating the transponder. this is the track it's moving on and we'll have to do something to identify it. >> greg, when you see the sequence of shutdowns in this plane o...