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we put members first. join the nation. nationwide is on your side we re back. i m here with three captains who are flying or have flown for major u.s. airline. latane campbell, karen pellicone and ross aimer. you mentioned shadowing another
perfectly with an airway heading northwest toward sri lanka. i want to talk about that theory. but first, karen, i wanted to ask you if there s been a lot of confusion about what exactly the transponder is. it s a frequency that s in there in the cockpit you can set. have you ever had occasion as a pilot to turn the transponder off? is there some aspect of that that doesn t seem as incriminating or mysterious or bizarre as it appears to lay folks like me? procedures are to turn on the transponder right before we take off and then we turn it off after we land. i don t see any reason to turn it off en route at all. it sends out a signal so the air traffic control can see where you are. traffic control can see where you are. have you ever had an occasion where you lost a transponder for a reason where there was some kind of mechanical difficulty that would take it out? i have, however, we have backups. if one side went out, the other
the level of coordination would be extraordinary. they d have to time everything perfectly to climb up to altitude, catch up with another aircraft. i think once they reached the extent of the radar-controlled airplane space in malaysia under normal circumstances and headed out over the indian ocean, all bets are off. if i were a betting man, i d be looking at the deepest part of the indian ocean which is very deep, by the way, right now. that seems to be if the plane did go down, that seems to be the likely place and the sheer size of that makes that difficult. karen, do you agree with what ross was saying before this basic principle of how confident you as a pilot would be under these conditions to be able to land that plane if there wasn t some catastrophic mechanical failure, if you had to get it down, you could? absolutely. we have onboard computers. we can type in the destination. it s kind of like using your iphone and google maps. follow where you need to go. there was nothi
there s no one that understands exactly how difficult that would be than the people who fly these sorts of planes. joining me now, latane campbell. 14 years of experience flying international. captain karen pellicone. pilot for another major u.s. commercial airline and ross amer. he spent five years flying the boeg 77boeing 777. now ceo of aero consulting. ross let me start with you. in the dark, with no ground control and presumably, it appears, certain automatic functions of the plane turned off, could you get this thing to ground in any way? or is that just an impossible task? no, chris. it s a simple thing for a pilot of that caliber that gets to fly a 777. that aircraft has onboard equipment that could be used to find your way basically anywhere around the world by itself. so you do think that even