you have to look at the radar range itself. when the plane was first lost it was at the extreme end of the radar system from malaysia. so we are talking about 250 nautical miles and the aircraft was at 35,000 feet to. fly under the radar it will have to fly know the range of the radar and then fly to the height for that range. so as it s approaching, say, pakistan, it s going to have to go lower and lower and lower. and i doubt a plane of 200 tons could get under the radar. jim tilmon, i promise we will get you in. does the united states believe we are in a threat right now because of this? that we are vulnerable? well, they don t when you speak to u.s. officials. one reason they don t is they have not established a terror
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plane to simply vanish? seems like a magician s trick to me. when planes cross the ocean they often vanish. we depend on vie mare radar. when the radar doesn t cover it, they vanish. jeff beatty. it s a big ocean and i would have to say if it went down in the ocean they may not find it for a long time, if ever. hopefully it went down somewhere on land. we have a better chance there. jim tilmon. i agree with the last person. the chances of finding it at the bottom of the indian sea is slim. i pray they are all right. why was malaysian air choosen for richard quest s story a few weeks ago? that was the part of the world that we were filming in and it was an airline with issues about restructuring. and you happened to fly with
and do we know if police have talked to the family? reporter: we do know that the police have talked to the family. we know that the pilot s family has not been at the house recently. we don t we re not really able to confirm whether or not they left the day before this flight happened. those little details, there s a lot of inconsistent reporting in the press. as you know from watching what s 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 th
captain and first officer, according to u.s. officials. let s bring in jim let s bring in jim and david to react to that. david, obviously the american officials leaking this information share some of our frustration with word from the malaysians, but what do you make of this? you know, we have been having frustration all along and it s just i ve become, like jim tilmon mentioned, a little hesitant to accept any new information immediately from any source at this point. smart man. but i do think could we touch on that a little bit because i think that this whole investigation, all of it from any investigation that i ve been involved in has frustration with it and the fewer the answers, the more frustrating it becomes and then your team starts falling apart. i think that s kind of where we are now. i was admiring the team for how they came together during the search and now at this point it seems like it s diverged into
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