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This is instigated. this was not serendipitous on the part of the pilot. he's trying to figure out what the collection capabilities are. in terms of intelligence, what type of radar return, how is this being painted. the russians are trying to decide on the tactical point what are the rules of engagement. the answer is, no, however, putin is pushing both at the tactical level to gather intelligence and strategic level to see what the gumption is. >> talk about gumption. it's one thing to push around politicians but he knows he cannot push around the u.s. military. >> cannot. >> what are the mo...

The altitude was such and such, let's look here. >> they are using that very small two pieces of information, rety refining, recalibrating, but that is it. but if there is other data, they ain't told us. >> miles o'brien, what do you make of this shift? >> we know from these hand shakes, we can speculate pretty well as to when the flight ended. it was either the last full hand shake or this half hand shake. that means the plane was in the air for about seven hours. but that's all we know. imagine if we have this last radar return, and it gives you a rough altitude in speed. there's still seven...

China sea, because we know at some point it turned back, that's some of the information we have toward malaysia. during that turn, there's this report that it would have been flying as low as 12,000 feet. how significant would that be? well, that adds two pieces to the puzzle. if it dipped down to 12,000 feet, it may indicate there was a conscious effort of somebody to get down below and get as poor a radar signal as they possibly could, radar return, because the lower you are and far away from the radar antenna, the poorer the signal return is. but it also could mean there may have been a s...

Direction of an area which was not yet covered and then over on the other side, a few miles away they saw a very faint radar return and so it was a decision point that they decided to check out what the radar return was. at that point they decreased their altitude to a 1,000 foot or so range. that way they can get a visual identification with their optical camera or people looking and then they come back up. so each flight is different and we have seen hundreds of different objects in the water, debris, trash sometimes, nothing associated with an aircraft wreckage. >> how good is the cooperati...

Direction this time? talk to me more about the methodology. >> it does start out as more of a general grid system. we're actually, there were 25 countries crick. it started nine, ten and then moved out. even with a grid system, there is quite a bit of flexibility. so for example the p-8 yesterday, they had another couple hours of search time and they had to make a decision. do they search an area that has not yet been covered or do they go search an area where they saw a little bit of return coming on their radar but they were not sure what it was. they made the decision to go ahead and search...