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Time consuming effort. there is not any station that's not working on this right now. >> it is a huge, an international effort. 25 different nations contributing. seth young, central for aviation studies, i want to bring in a question that came via twitter. i think it is one that i may have as well. it came from mike graham. the question is would they have air marshals on board the plane? is the u.s. the only country that would use air marshals or do other countries around the world use that as well in the years following 9/11? >> first i would like to say that it is actually an amazing experi...

>> seth, i want to ask you. he brought up that point, the landing. the final satellite ping from the aircraft could malaysian authorities say, have come from the ground. and we know that that northern arc, the potential path leads it entirely over ground, heading to north asia. you've study up on this. are there landing sites there, runways, et cetera, flat areas of the earth where the plane could set down? >> yeah, as an airport planner we typically look for runway lengths between 6,000 and 8,000 feet for a safe landing for a 777. although in an emergency it could land on 4,000 feet of paveme...