have never run with m.i.s.f.i.t.s. before? only one? we re going to do card draw for starting position. what am i rooting for? what do i want? 1. 1 through 4 is what you want. arms up. of course, everybody assures me that it s all perfectly safe. okay. arms down. as long as you don t crash, flip over, drive headlong into a truck or otherwise suffer some catastrophic injury. thanks. i remain, of course, skeptical. hey, fran? yes? one last question? yes? what the [ bleep ] am i doing? if i knew, i wouldn t be here, either. three, two, one! in this race all the cars are built to the exact same specifications. they re all identical in every way so the only x factor in
deal. all right. we need drivers over here. all of you. how many people are here that have never run with m.i.s.f.i.t.s. before? only one? we re going to do card draw for starting position. what am i rooting for? what do i want? 1. 1 through 4 is what you want. arms up. of course, everybody assures me that it s all perfectly safe. okay. arms down. as long as you don t crash, flip over, drive headlong into a truck or otherwise suffer some catastrophic injury. thanks. i remain, of course, skeptical. hey, fran? yes? one last question? yes? what the [ bleep ] am i doing? if i knew, i wouldn t be here, either. three, two, one! in this race all the cars are built to the exact same specifications. they re all identical in every
it took off just after midnight local time, ten hours now ago. so we know it didn t have enough fuel to still be in the air. so this plane has come down, we just don t know where or the circumstances which brought it down. when you ve flown this plane, it is, i believe, an extremely modern plane, extremely well equipped. something catastrophic must have happened you would assume, correct? i was just looking at logs from the flight. suddenly there were no more reports from 35,000 feet. it just vanishes. so you could imagine some kind of all encompassing electric failure that caused that. but more or likely some problem with the airplane and what that is no one knows. time finally, james, if that any kind of a terrorist attack,
also lost all contact has a different meaning in aviation. you not only have oral communication with the pilot and company, the pilot and air traffic control, you have an automatic system that s broadcasting its position back in response to radar. you have radar energy bouncing off the metal skin of the airplane and producing an image. you probably have satellite communication between the engines and other mechanical systems showing up to a satellite bouncing back down to the airline somewhere. so there are many many channels of communications. those are all gone. this plane is not in the air. if it were on the ground someplace populated we d know it. having said that, there are a number of parts of that region which are pretty unpopulated. and it could possibly have landed in one of those areas. that is a possibility, isn t it? this airplane needs many many feet of runway to land. you don t have big flat open
pretty good idea where the plane is. the malaysia airlines v.p. of operations control told anderson cooper show a little while ago at the moment we have no idea where this aircraft is right now. there are internet rumors completely unconfirmed, some suggesting it may have landed somewhere in vietnamese land and has suffered an electrical fault. that might be completely bogus. but is it possible that a plane could lose all contact with its airline and yet still be able to land without electrical power at all? oh, i think so. i mean, you re getting hairy if you re coming into some airline unannounced. but it could happen, sure, if they got 5 o 6,000 feet of runway and they don t get into the flight path of other airplane, don t crash, they could certainly do that. that area over vietnam, at least when i was there many years ago, is depending on where they