missing. so, for them not to come forward, it makes you wonder about the quality of the radar control and coverage in this area if you go up the coast a little bit further. you have burma, same questions could be raised there. and, you know, thailand is a constitutional monarchy. it s a great place to visit. i have been there. but it s not the most democratic and open country out there. well, i read that they said that they hadn t been asked for the radar yes, that s what they said. clearly they knew about the search. they knew about the missing plane. the entire world knows about it. and i think this just raises another question here. every time we get another piece of evidence in this search for a missing plane. another piece of information comes up and every piece of evidence seems more perplexing. imagine if people like
the malaysian military doing when they spotted some odd flight on their radar. it seems that the plane took off at 12:41 a.m. traveled in northeast direction towards the gulf of thailand and vietnam. north of malaysia went through three military radar zones. and being spotted by four person radar team to the northwest of the country. no one saw fit to scramble any of the a f-18 or jets there on stand by. well shouldn t they be even more suspicious because at that point when they go to the radar it doesn t provide identifying characteristics at that point. tail numbers. weren t they the least bit suspicion the malaysian military as to what this big junk of metal in the air is doing flying through our airspace? absolutely.
investigated. terry in looking at the similarities. have they looked into what it was he was doing with that similarity. no. they haven t released any information about that similarity other than the fact that they seized it in a raid on his home. have they explained why the malaysian military has been withholding information at least that the plane came back through and at least we think noted by their radar? no, they haven t explained that. it took several days for the information to come out that the military had actually tracked it coming back through the malaysian mainland. they also haven t explained why the air force didn t scramble when they noticed this plane coming through unannounced. in terms of the fuel on board. everybody is talking about enough to get to it beijing and further. they don t want to overload the plane with fuel if they don t need it. have they verified how much
fuel actually was loaded on to that plane before it took off or making the assumption it was only enough to get to beijing and another hour or so? no. they haven t verified how much fuel was on board. they have say that the plane had enough fuel to make it as far as kazakhstan after it was last seen on radar. and kazakhstan, obviously is a long way from malaysia. but they are not at least they are not giving us the precise numbers and saying we can say for certain this how much fuel was on board that 777? no. they are not giving out precise numbers. they are saying it could go as far as kazakhstan or the west coast of australia in the indian ocean. terry, thank you. i know it s it like pulling teeth getting information out of there. thank you, tara. thank you. another clue today. senior officials telling the new york times the plane s first turn to the west was made through a computer system not by manual controls. and the flight path was likely altered by someone in th
off. this happens at the same time the plane is supposed to check in with air traffic control in vietnam. 1:30 a.m., authorities say all civilian radars lose contact with the plane all together. then it appears to go through erratic altitude changes, perhaps as high as 45,000 feet above the approvaled altitude. 2:15 a.m., malaysian military radar last detect it is plane off malaysia s west coast, hundreds of miles off course. but it went unnoticed by radar operators until the following day. 6:30 a.m., flight 370 is due to land in beijing. a commercial satellite orbiting more than 22,000 miles above earth makes electronic connections with the plane known as hand shakes. at 8:11 a.m., more than seven hours after takeoff, the last connection. using the angle of the satellite, investigators are able to draw two big arcs where