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tracts of land, as well as deep and remote oceans. and jim, this search is now looking at some of the deepest places on the planet. under the ocean. plus some of the highest places. the himalayas. by land and by sea and some pretty big chunks of land and sea. thanks very much to andrew stephens. live for us in kuala lumpur. joining me now to discuss these developments, we have arthur rosenberg, aviation lawyer, engineer and pilot and a professor of aeronautics at m.i.t. and a former director assistant director of the fbi. john, i wonder if i could start with you. we have a lot of new information over the last 24 hours about the potential of a pilot s involvement in this. that it was a deliberate act. that it required turning off systems. radar indications of a steep ascent and decent. and flying through radar zones to avoid radar. that requires a level of skill. i wonder with what you know,
we re getting potentially significant new details about the events leading up to the disappearance of flight 370, including this new development. malaysia s prime minister says the cockpit s signoff to ground control, which you recall was all right, good night, was said after the plane s communication systems were disabled. and the order of those events suggests whatever incident happened on that plane was already happening when ground control heard that message. there s so much to talk about, i wanted to bring in our panel of experts. captain bill savage, a former 777 pilot, with 30 years experience, who has flown extensively in that region. commercial pilot rob mark, pilot and aviation attorney brian alexander and arthur rosenberg, aviation lawyer, pilot and aviation engineer.
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they had run out of options at that point. by doing a throttle at idle landing, long before i was inspector general, long before i was an aviation lawyer, i was a pilot. we used to do landings like this in competition teams. we would throttle back and try to land so slow and feather light right on the numbers. pilots like to do that because it gives the passenger a quiet, safe, wonderful landing. there might have been reasons they might have been going so slowly. once you get those warnings, you have to increase the throttle. the stick shake wore have been alarming to them. that means, warning, you are in imminent danger of stalling. exactly. the stick shaker means you are in danger of stalling and losing control of the flight, which is the lingo way to say you are in danger of crashing. she said the engines appear to respond normally. that says they weren t having engine problems. that is a big issue. the engines, many things can go