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And if it has been shot down by russia, one wonders what is next and what we hear from our own government on this? jon: reminders what happened to the korean airlines flight back in the early 1980s, korean air 007, strayed, for a variety of reasons into russian airspace and shot down by a russian fighter plane. there is discussion here that this was shot down by a missile from the ground. of course, no way to know who may have been operating that missile, if in fact that is what happened. let's bring into the conversation, robert mark. a commercial airline pilot. publisher of jetchina.com. may...

That yet for certain, but if this was a shoot-down, a lot of these folks are not very well-trained using some of this military hardware. maybe they pointed it at the sky and pulled the trigger. >> yeah, but of course too, these, surface-to-air -- well, it depend, whether it was a shoulder-fired missile or something from a, that was using more sophisticated ground radar. i mean, heat from the airplane randomly with shoulder-fired missile at 33,000 feet is almost impossible. if they were tracking them that would be a different story but then we go back to my original point, what in the world was...

Flight 370. with me, commercial pilot and fox news aviation analyst robert mark. robert, what do you make of today's news about this pulse and the ping? >> i'm riding the line right in the middle there, judge, because on the one hand, i'm so excited that we've heard something that gives us something definite that we've needed for over a month. and as your earlier guest said, the chances are slim that it's something else that we're hearing. now, of course, we don't know for certain that it's this airplane. but i'm hopeful on that. the downside, though, to me is if this has actually been identif...

Knots. so depending on how far away it is, it could take until tomorrow until it gets there. >> all right. but if the pulse, robert, is not detected again, then what happens? >> you know what, this is the strongest signal of anything that we have had, let's face it, over the last month, we have found more junk in the water that has turned out to be useless. and i think we'd have to be crazy not to say that this area deserves a little more attention even if perhaps in a week or ten days we find out that we can't locate anything. >> all right. but this part of the ocean, robert, is over two mile...

Of the indian ocean. that's the first time we're hearing comprehensively from the leadership, if you will, in the australian search effort, and as you can see how much they have been carrying out the operations. i want to bring onboard robert mark, for a quick read of what we have heard. how important is it that he get out in front of the camera? he talked money, he didn't give a date certain, but it isn't going to go on forever? >> the real importance of this is timing. this is the beginning of the fourth week of the search. and everybody world over, i mean certainly is knowing this is growin...