plane, that part of the strangeness is that the trajectory of the flight, the northern trajectory of this for seven hours would go through so much airspace, so many air traffic control towers, so many different sets of radar, it would be impossible to do it with undetected. there was someone today who suggested if it got behind another plane, it would be possible. does that strike you as plausible? that strikes me as unplausible. the level of coordination would be extraordinary. they d have to time everything perfectly to climb up to altitude, catch up with another aircraft. i think once they reached the extent of the radar-controlled airplane space in malaysia under normal circumstances and headed out over the indian ocean, all bets are off.
strangeness is that the trajectory of the flight, the northern trajectory of this for seven hours would go through so much airspace, so many air traffic control towers, so many different sets of radar, it would be impossible to do it with undetected. there was someone today who suggested if it got behind another plane, it would be possible. does that strike you as plausible? that strikes me as unplausz bl. the level of coordination would be extraordinary. they d have to time everything perfectly to climb up to altitude, catch up with another aircraft. i think once they reached the extent of the radar-controlled airplane space in malaysia under normal circumstances and headed out over the indian ocean, all bets are off. if i were a betting man, i d be looking at the deepest part of the indian ocean which is very deep, by the way, right now. that seems to be if the plane did go down, that seems to be the likely place and the sheer size of that makes that
the level of coordination would be extraordinary. they d have to time everything perfectly to climb up to altitude, catch up with another aircraft. i think once they reached the extent of the radar-controlled airplane space in malaysia under normal circumstances and headed out over the indian ocean, all bets are off. if i were a betting man, i d be looking at the deepest part of the indian ocean which is very deep, by the way, right now. that seems to be if the plane did go down, that seems to be the likely place and the sheer size of that makes that difficult. karen, do you agree with what ross was saying before this basic principle of how confident you as a pilot would be under these conditions to be able to land that plane if there wasn t some catastrophic mechanical failure, if you had to get it down, you could? absolutely. we have onboard computers. we can type in the destination. it s kind of like using your iphone and google maps. follow where you need to go. there was nothi