whatever else to take this airplane full of these passengers and go flying around the skies. and if they did in fact threaten some kind of property on the ground, who would make the decision about what they re going to do about it? you ve got all of these nations involved. you ve got 75 different people on there other than a large group of chinese on there. 25 nations. all right. somebody said, well, we ve got to shoot it down, we can t let it fly into the whatever, what kind of a diplomatic mess would that be around the world. jim, you are taking us like three nightmares into the future. let s focus on the one we ve got. but i appreciate you being here. hold that thought, we d like you to stick around. we want to talk about more with you based on your aviation experience. we also have veteran members of the cia, other pilots. now there s a theory that not only that the missing plane could be used as a weapon, that we should be doing voice analysis of all right, good night an
tower. the plane passed over malaysia and that was a possibility. but it would have had to hit a tower just like anyone else on the ground or being lucky to get a tower. and then actually some phone company officials have said that the cell phone ringing was not indicative that the phone was still working but ringing through to the area or the switching station to go ahead and meet the cell phone. it did mean the cell phone itself was working. jim tilmon this is for you. this is your expertise. this is from john parker. he says could pilot depressurize plane to cause passengers to pass out? jim? yes. it can deprive the cabin of oxygen. and they don t have to do it for a very long time because you just cannot survive but just a matter of minutes without oxygen. you go into kind of a high
happened this last week, the authorities have also not really been consistent in exactly the whereabouts of the pilot s family. appreciate you looking into that and also there has been a lot of today there was another report, local media report we are not even mentioning because it s been knocked down. so there s a lot of misreporting, particularly in local papers that we re avoiding. i want to bring in jim tilmon. thanks for being with us. this idea about pilot suicide, does that make any sense to you? it s what you re trying to do if that s what you re trying to do, why try to hide the plane? why turn off the data system, the transponder, why fly around for however long it flew around for. if that s what you re going to do, you might as well right after takeoff hit the drink, there s no big deal. just dive right into the water. i think that s a far-fetched idea, way off the mark. the flight simulator at the pilot s home, does that raise any red flags for you as an experienc
for what purpose, that certainy is up for grabs at this point. and beyond just taking it s the yoke and turning it to the left, someone was punching in coordinates. let s bring in the rest of our panel, jim tilmon, david soucie, spider marks. we re going to get into the simulator and into his in the pilot s house. but this all right, good night, i saw some questions today. we actually got one from a veteran pilot, also an american pilot, who says that s not how pilots talk to each other, that he would have to usually say roger and put the call sign in there somewhere. jim, what do you think about all right, good night. well, i ve heard both extremes. i ve heard guys just casually say, all right, have a good night, whatever else. most pilots will do exactly what this other gentleman said, they
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