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To people involved in the transportation industry, you can do some of that and get some red flags but it is not -- in most cases it's not repeated. it's only at the entry into duty. i think trying to this do these before the fact is quite difficult. i completely defer to tom on his knowledge of the 777. my point was not only that someone knew how to fly this plane or force the pilots to but the person was quite smart about shutting down the pilots or the plane's ability to communicate with the outside world once it left its normal route. >> how difficult is that to do, tom, to shut down that c...

Management computer. >> someone has to go back eight feet behind the cockpit, open up something, get down into the belly of the plane to do that? >> right, if you wanted to pull the circuit breakers on acars. you can't turn the acars off from the cockpit. it's always operating. it's also in a passive state sending a signal. >> how difficult is it to land that plane? this is relative to the fact this last ping, tom, we hear came at 8:11 in the morning. that's daylight. presumably it's a difficult plane to land in the night. >> the 777? >> if you're not on a landing strip -- >> no airplane is di...

Plane depending on weight in 4,000 feet. remember when the 747 landed on a 5,000-foot strip? you can't take off with grace but the brakes on the 777 are phenomenal. you can land a light 777 and stop it -- i think a friend of mine told me he came in from tokyo the other night and came in at kennedy airport and landed at 3,500 feet. in the hands of a competent aviator, this plane could be taken anywhere, but we don't know that that happened. >> tom, michael, thanks for lending us your expertise. >> thanks, alex. a vote against russia at the u.n. while for the first time russian troop have take...

People have talked about uighur separatists in china. i don't think these organizations are involved. what it really looks more like to me is an individual actor, something like what we saw potentially in the egypt air disaster of 1999 where the co-pilot brought the plane down or potentially a small splinter cell. the fact no organization is claiming responsibility and intelligence officials have seen nothing else, before or after, which points back towards this sort of operation really suggesting to me that this is small, loekized to this plane and likely not linked to larger organization nal...

airlines flight 370. the prime minister says the erratic changes in course and the disable tofg jet's communication systems were most likely caused intentionally by someone on board that flight. >> this movements are consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane. >> now, the prime minister did not go as far as to label the incident a hijacking but says tishls are still looking into all possible scenarios. >> despite media reports that the plane was hijacked,officialo all possible scenarios. >> despite media reports that the plane was hijacked, i wish to be very clear we a...