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Clear on exactly what kind of a plane it is? >> no, it's a return on your radar. >> right. >> it will be a certain size, you can estimate the size of the aircraft. you may have other sensors that tell you what it is. but, you know, once you're getting radar returns and you engage the weapon, it just follows the radar path right up to the aircraft. >> so bob baer's earlier point that this is all trackable, that we will soon know where this missile, if that, in fact, is what it was was fired from, do you believe that? >> if we have the right sensors in the right place at the right time, yes. >> ...

Be coming from. but as we already pointed out, it doesn't mean there really was crime. >> and that's exactly what they do. they go through different scenarios. mary schiavo, you want to discuss more of this -- this flight path of avoiding indonesian airspace? what can this tell us if they were in fact doing that? >> well, again, it's the same information that we had on day one, but now someone's put a different explanation on it. and the explanation helps fill in some of the holes, but like we have often said, no matter how we explain things, there are always holes. but what this new explanati...

Explained. the second thing that starts happening, the families going through the torture, only to be tormented by misinformation, inconsistent information, the way the government can solve that problem is to be totally transparent. invite officials from other government, make sure that independence is open to the investigation so that you can't question whether or not its being influenced by those having an interest. the easiest way is to invite the united states government, let independent people have access to the raw data, there's no reason why we're hearing filtered reports, why can't we ...

We saw martin savidge navigating and going around and doing everything trying to get down, frantically trying to reduce altitude. it is an aggressive maneuver. what we saw on the radar returns was two-minute turn and remaining on heading for over an hour. >> go ahead. >> we need to try to zero in on the things that we can defend. and once you get the transponder an the acars turned off, now the airplane is free, except for that skin paint that the military radar can look at and the military radar that we have been getting reports on just are not that great. i'm really concerned about the pilot...

Australia, but, you know, that's based on primary radar returns which are kind of sketchy and in marsat, satellite return from a turned off communications device called the acars on the aircraft which is not designed to track an aircraft. we have sketchy information to identify this location. >> and you make a good point. another reminder to our viewers, though, most of the assets are now focused in the southern indian ocean marks lay shan authorities made a point saying the corridor search area still open and kazakhstan has offered their air base as a central point for searching that area. th...