steering wheel it s going to go somewhere. but you have to be steering that car down the road. well, either the pilot or the auto pilot is in control of where that aircraft s going. david, i wanted to get your take on what andy is just now reporting as well. well again i m going to come back to that same old thing. okay, i ll accept that. my and our expertise really begins on the water and underneath the water. but we have a vested interest in knowing if we re in the right spot. so all these things play into that. and the question i m still going to come back to is, where does the information come from that says the plane crashed? and two, it doesn t take five hours to get to those two search areas at least from my calculations. it only takes a couple of hours. so what was the plane doing for the rest of the time? in other words, five hours. andy, do you have a read on that based on your reporting? well, those are all very good questions. and it s early in the investigation. pe
well, the wild flying, the erratic flying would point to some sort of human intervention. but the problem with the data, the most recent data is the plane can t dive that fast. the plane can t even fall out of the sky that fast. and we know that from previous accidents. so we know that data is unreliable. we also note data, the directional data is unreliable because the plane can t be going north and south at the same time. so i think the problem here is to sort out what data is reliable and what isn t. factually speaking it s impossible they both are. i know the plane can t dive that fast. it would come apart. andy pastor from the wall street journal, what about that? how accurate do the officials you re talking, to how accurate do they feel the data is? because as mary points out, the idea of and everybody has been raising suspicions about this idea the plane plunging some 40,000 feet. there s other data as well. now, of course we re talking about two different things,
should be aware of that has not gotten a lot of attention. we keep talking about an investigation and investigators. in fact, because the wreckage has not been found there is no country that has the authority to conduct an aviation crash investigation. it is really quite a problem, because in fact as the former chairman of the ntsb jim hall likes to tell people, you need somebody in charge. and literally at this point nobody is in charge because there is no country heading up the investigation. so that is another complication on top of all the other things we have been talking about that could hamper and delay getting answers. and as you pointed out earlier the malaysian authorities are all over this. andy, thanks again. you re welcome. wow. and in other news developing tonight, republican senators are taking action to block a special white house tax exemption for some of the union supporters of the white house and obamacare.
should be aware of that has not gotten a lot of attention. we keep talking about an investigation and investigators. in fact, because the wreckage has not been found there is no country that has the authority to conduct an aviation crash investigation. it is really quite a problem, because in fact as the former chairman of the ntsb jim hall likes to tell people, you need somebody in charge. and literally at this point nobody is in charge because there is no country heading up the investigation. so that is another complication on top of all the other things we have been talking about that could hamper and delay getting answers. and as you pointed out earlier the malaysian authorities are all over this. andy, thanks again. you re welcome. wow. and in other news developing tonight, republican senators are taking action to block a special white house tax exemption for some of the union supporters of the white house and obamacare.
just fine. so turning off the transponder, other than jeopardizing transmitting, doesn t do anything to jeopardize safety. why don t we know where it is if somebody hijacked that? i have no idea, that is a big jet, the 300 series weighs nearly 800,000 pounds, this 200 series jet is well over 600,000 pounds. how do you cover that up or hide it? i have no idea. andy, thank you. now, this sorry charles, now the jet was carrying 239 people and family members have said their cell phones continue to ring. how is that possible? john handsman is a professor of astronautics at m. i. t. good to see you, professor, how is that possible? well, the fact that the cell phone rang and they tried to call it doesn t necessarily mean