we ve got to leave it there, jim, john, thank you very much. i m going to talk to a grief counselor who has been talking to the families of the missing. imagine, as closely as people have been following this, what it is like for them with this constantly shifting information from malaysian authorities. we ll hear from him ahead. [ male announcer ] research suggests cell health
pilot to pull it off. even then, the dot would probably be bigger or more intense than usual and could attract the attention of a radar operator somewhere. anderson, when people try to figure out beyond what we know that initial flight into all this conjecture how it could have happened, theories like this have to be considered, no matter how outlandish, simply because here we are a week and a half later and we just don t know. and these are certainly things that investigators from every country who s involved in this are certainly looking at and trying to play out the many steps of what it would entail. tom, appreciate it. i want to bring in john hansman a professor of aeronautics. also back with us is jim tilmon. professor hanson, about all the theories out there about what happened, at this point which seem most plausible to you? well, we ve got to keep everything on the table but a couple days ago everybody rejected the catastrophic failure idea and now it s pack on the table a
and i also wonder you know, i ve been critical of air traffic control since this thing started. where were they? why aren t they asking this airplane to squawk i.d. so we can identify them. why aren t they asking what are your intentions? why aren t they creating the conversation? an airline flying over land you would think would raise those types of communications from air traffic controllers. we ve got to leave it there, jim, john, thank you very much. i m going to talk to a grief counselor who has been talking to the families of the missing. imagine, as closely as people have been following this, what it is like for them with this constantly shifting information from malaysian authorities. we ll hear from him ahead. gunderman group is a go.
every country who s involved in this are certainly looking at and trying to play out the many steps of what it would entail. tom, appreciate it. i want to bring in john hansman a professor of aeronautics. also back with us is jim tilmon. professor hanson, about all the theories out there about what happened, at this point which seem most plausible to you? well, we ve got to keep everything on the table but a couple days ago everybody rejected the catastrophic failure idea and now it s pack on the table and that s credible. the original turn-back was towards the closest available airport, so that makes sense. so the initial part actually makes sense, some sort of catastrophic problem. when you say catastrophic, you don t mean instantaneous, you mean mechanical issues on board that the pilot had time to try to make that turn to try to find the closest airport. sure. yeah, some sort of progressive