rare on this aircraft. this is the most reliable aircraft in the skies right now. jim, you held a high jock at the ntsb. you were former chairman, where would you now take this investigation to try to get some kind of resolution. the international aviation organization they need to equip these aircraft. they ve been sitting on that recommendation for five years. if this aircraft had been equipped with a deployable recorder like the f-18 aircraft we have in the united states, like the p3s that are conducting the search for the australian air force, we would know and have the information out of the black boxes and know the location of this crash. all of this anguish, all of this posturing about the politicians in malaysia would not have occurred. and we would possibly have had a more responsible investigation. right, i mean, jim, that is
the malaysian military doing when they spotted some odd flight on their radar. it seems that the plane took off at 12:41 a.m. traveled in northeast direction towards the gulf of thailand and vietnam. north of malaysia went through three military radar zones. and being spotted by four person radar team to the northwest of the country. no one saw fit to scramble any of the american-made f-18 or jets there on stand by. well shouldn t they be even more suspicious because at that point when they go to the radar it doesn t provide identifying characteristics at that point. tail numbers. weren t they the least bit suspicion the malaysian military as to what this big junk of metal in the air is doing flying through our airspace? absolutely.
the malaysian military doing when they spotted some odd flight on their radar. it seems that the plane took off at 12:41 a.m. traveled in northeast direction towards the gulf of thailand and vietnam. north of malaysia went through three military radar zones. and being spotted by four person radar team to the northwest of the country. no one saw fit to scramble any of the a f-18 or jets there on stand by. well shouldn t they be even more suspicious because at that point when they go to the radar it doesn t provide identifying characteristics at that point. tail numbers. weren t they the least bit suspicion the malaysian military as to what this big junk of metal in the air is doing flying through our airspace? absolutely.
according to analysts and our own leah gabriel, we have three seconds and you re asleep. if rapid depressurization happens. pilots are trained about things you can do in that amount of time, three seconds, but you would go to sleep after three seconds. she had a friend who this happened to in an f-18. he changed the altitude of the plane, hoping it would sort of glide down. instead, they crashed and burned. so is that a possibility? it is a possibility. but they don t believe this happened because, according to this new reporting, there is indication that it came up and hit the southern tip of thailand, and then made its way back. and if i pull out a little bit, this is malaysia, cambodia, vietnam, and then the indian ocean. it would have come right back across here. they seem to have pings from military, by the way, the malaysian government will not share with the public, so not the media. there s no indication why they realize the plane flew back over malaysia, that it didn t react
last known spot more in the south china sea? well, if i was leading this investigation, first of all, i would be very dependent on the experts in radar technology and aviation that work for the board and work for various agencies to determine. this needs to be an extremely coordinated effort and hopefully we re going to see more of that now that we have all of the right players in place in malaysia. but obviously this is not simple. this is why i have been a long-time advocate for deployable recorders, such as we have on our f-18. but that recorder deployable signal had this aircraft gone