good they are. a lot of the u.s. s latest military equipment on display out there as well, including the p.a. we have talked about this a bit, and you said it would be a mistake not to keep looking on land despite this huge deployment now and real focus in the south indian ocean. why is that? i firmly believe that. i m not sure the configuration was, but i m almost certain that the slide rafts in a ditching situation are provision with emergency locater transmitters. these elts, when they hit salt water, are activated. once they are activated they should send a signal to emergency frequency and a satellite, which would give them latitude and longitude. we don t have that information. so when they hit the water, they don t just send a ping in the water you have to listen for with a ship or something or a plane. they would send a signal to a satellite.
life rafts are strictly salt water activated ones that will only they actually are in life rafts. they are in the life rafts. now, there are some that are portable sometimes in the overhead bins you can remove and in another situation. but we re told in training that if you have to do a crash landing on the ground, it s a survivable situation and you have an elt available to you, which when the slide deployed you d have that because they re slide rafts, you d grab that elt and urinate on it. in order to get the salt to go off and signal go off. exactly. vhf emergency frequency and uhf emergency frequency. can an elt les be disabled or can it not function if the plane hits with a certain volume loel? those are designed to activate for a ditching situation in water. the fact it wouldn t go off doesn t necessarily mean there s no way it hit water.
airplane was about 30 minutes ahead which is a fair distance. and it s difficult the procedure that i was explaining before we went on air was that if the controllers are expecting an airplane at a certain spot, it seemed very compelling to me that they decided to attempt contact with the airplane. that means, where are they? in other words in their head they re saying, where is this airplane? so the first attempt would be to contact them on the frequency they were designated to be on. then they would attempt on the guard frequency, which is the emergency frequency. after that they would try to relay through another airplane. so it indicates to me that maybe the problem was developing but for that other airplane, it s not uncommon to not be able to contact them as a favor to air traffic control to relay information. so they probably just wrote it off as oh, we just can t get ahold of them. they re too far behind it. michael, you ve been breaking a lot of stories on this. from what
we know one thing from the thai radio report by the way. the report that came out today they said they did not enter thai air space. does that mean they weren t going north? i think so. unless you also there was also a report about another plane that had been contacted by authorities in vietnam to see if they could make contact with flight 370. to you, that s significant? yeah. my understanding is that that airplane was about 30 minutes ahead which is a fair distance. and it s difficult the procedure that i was explaining before we went on air was that if the controllers are expecting an airplane at a certain spot, it seemed very compelling to me that they decided to attempt contact with the airplane. that means, where are they? in other words in their head they re saying, where is this airplane? so the first attempt would be to contact them on the frequency they were designated to be on. then they would attempt on the guard frequency, which is the emergency frequency. after th
that they decided to attempt contact with the airplane. that means, where are they? in other words in their head they re saying, where is this airplane? so the first attempt would be to contact them on the frequency they were designated to be on. then they would attempt on the guard frequency, which is the emergency frequency. after that they would try to relay through another airplane. so it indicates to me that maybe the problem was developing but for that other airplane, it s not uncommon to not be able to contact them as a favor to air traffic control to relay information. so they probably just wrote it off as oh, we just can t get ahold of them. they re too far behind it. michael, you ve been breaking a lot of stories on this. from what you understand, from your sources, all options are still on the table for investigators. they are still looking at all the things that we are sitting around discussing are things that they are sitting around discussing. yeah. i would say the mo