their airline communication, their interairline communication with the crew didn t indicate a problem. but he didn t specify whether the crew may have talked to atc about a problem. so there s an unanswered question that should be asked in the press conference. greg feith, i have to jump in we have to take a short break. stay with us please. we ll come back to you after the break and ask other guests also for their insight into this dramatic story this evening a malaysia airlines plane carrying 239 people, including 227 passengers, has gone missing. we ll be back after the break. stay with us. [ male announcer ] this is karen and jeremiah. they don t know it yet, but they re gonna fall in love, get married, have a couple of kids,
have rendered the airplane incapacitated. whatever happened happened very, very quickly. for them to have lost two-way radio communication with atc, two-whey radio communication with the company and to lose any kind of radar data with ground control facilities means that that airplane was comp pro miszed in a very quick manner. and it may have been well beyond the control of the crew to keep the airplane under control and make any kind of emergency distress call or emergency landing. all right. greg fife, tom fuentes, thank you gentlemen, appreciate it. you re welcome. it s that time of year again. it s time to spring forward. get those clocks ready. daylight saving time kicks in at 2:00 a.m. so don t forget to set your clocks ahead one hour before you go to bed. that s the best way to do it. we lose an hour of sleep. but just think about all that extra daylight time we re now going to get.
emergency situation. one of the other things, of course, is pressurization issues. if you have a high altitude pressurization problem, catastrophic decompression, the time of useful consciousness in the 20,000 to 30,000 foot range is a matter of seconds. while crews are trained to deal with these emergency situations, these rapid decompressions or explosive decompression situations, again it s all a matter of timing. and similar to a where he was flying the crew passed out because of oxygen deprivation. so there s a lot of possible scenario. but to speculate as to which one is the likely with this amount of information is definitely not useful. and it will be up to the investigators once they do find the wreckage and try and figure out what happened. greg feith, stay with us.
failure with the aircraft. so if you were to try to, you know, ascertain what may have happened here, greg, even though we don t know where the plane is, if it were to have gone down in that south china sea, is it your best guess it would likely be because of mechanical failure? we understand the crew was very experienced. there are there are multiple different scenarios. one, of course, it will be up to the investigators to try and determine if, in fact, there was something with the aircraft. the airplane operates in a very high corrosive environment, saltwater environment. of course, there s always the potential for some sort of structural compromise to the wings, the fuselage, and things like that. of course, you also have to look at in that part of the world and around the world, there s still a potential for a terrorist act or an intentional act that could
the two black boxes, but they re two boxes encased in an orange aluminum shell, so the investigators can find them, even in a fire situation. greg feith, do appreciate your time. the pilots are on set with me here. dan rose, aviation expert, military pilot, an attorney as well, and captain bun, 40 years of pilot. thank you both for sticking around with me. we found out a few hours ago, and i didn t know this, that the black boxes are actually orange, apparently. i did not know that. i assume, obviously, that you did. we knew that. dan, let s pick up where we left off here a few minutes ago. pilots who are landing planes on runways like that, you were talking a little bit about the technology that exists in the cockpit now, and we know that a lot of flying is very much automated, auto pilot, for instance, we re all familiar with that concept.