the flight plan that s when they should have initiated overdue action. it s going into a distress cell. and in this distress cell you ve got high frequency radio. you ve got phones that can get in touch with the aircraft. continue going through this. i want to show this just zoomed in animation with the radar that would have been scanning the area at the time. the civilian radio radar should have gone, hang on a second, something is not going right here. the malaysian peninsula there should have been conversations going on between time military radar tracking this, military civilian radar and malaysia to say, hey, we ve had something drop off and malaysian military radar would have been looking at this and they said they ve seen this. let me ask you a more basic question. when we see this and when we hear from the malaysian prime minister, can you, from just radar, determine whether or not
airways traffic. the red flag thing you raise is spot on. there are protocols area radar can take when they see an unidentified trace on the screen. the first one is they go to the distress cell, they pick up the radio, they pick up the sat com and they try to talk to the airplane or whatever it is that disappeared. then they try to speak to other aircraft in thes ha s havvicini. there are lots of checks and balances before you get to ringing the military to say we ve had someone drop off radar, get someone airborne. look, that makes perfect sense. when 9/11 happened and those jets perpetrated, the foul incident that ensued, the first thing they did was turn off the tro transponder. how does that not make you immediately potentially hostile? let s say for the sake of safety, hostile.
ill-fated turn. we ve got to look at what we know. we know the acars went out of. we know the communication saying, all right good night. the transponder was turned off. it s vital. it gives position. it gives squawk, 2157. we know from yesterday what the transcript said and we know it was at flight level three-five-zero. this is unequivocal data but it s the last we have. we know that they were told to go to 120.9. they didn t go. what were the emergency protoco protocols. there was a distress cell. it has a radio to get in touch with the cockpit and talk to other aircraft in the corridors. what conversations went on with military radar?
exactly. primary radar lost around 100, 150 miles. after 200 miles, what air traffic controllers rely what called a synthetic air picture. that is built up using bits of information, the first is acars, acars will send inform was to the air line, it will send things like burn rates and fuel rates and all the rest to have but also a gps position much the other way air traffic is worked sought a procedural piece. they will deconflict by biff givening each airlinary specific mack number to fly, different mack number, procedurally separated through that and through altitude. that s wait they build up the air picture until they reach 200 miles to the next coast, when they will be picked up again on transponder and primary radar. all right. so there is a ray weigh in the middle of nowhere, except acars was turned off? there is but it s not through radar. we must get away from this now, you mentioned the point how can military radar pick it up. this is a great question because as soon a
things i would be asking emergency response taken by ground air controllers from malaysia, from vietnam. how did they what were the actions they took next when they realized the aircraft had disappeared. so if the ground team knows at a certain appoint they are going to lose some information from the transponder, that information should be picked up by somebody else. is it passed off the responsibility to at least check if that transponder is working to another ground team? it s a good question, on long flights across the atlantic no one hand it off, there s a synthetic picture used from the aircraft. it s switched off. not going to have that synthetic picture. a number of aircraft traveling along the corridor. they are traveling in a fairly benign way. the issue i ve got, as soon as these guys, the ground controllers know that the aircraft has dropped off the radar, they would form a distress cell. the distress cell has the ability to try and contact that airplane malaysian 370