and many, many countries would have been challenged by it. certainly we have more clarity from them about what is going to happen in the next week or so. one of the most important pieces of the interview, i thought, is the prime minister saying that military radar tracked an aircraft. they weren t sure that it was flight 370 but it wasn t deemed to be hostile. what do you make of the prime minister s explanation of why they didn t scramble jets, mikey. i thought richard s questions were spot on but i think that the prime minister was economical with the truth. he had to two options. he could declare he didn t see anything, or military radar didn t see anything on the scopes or he could see he did say something or the military radar did see something and didn t act upon it or deemed it not hostile which is a dangerous move in the post 9/11 order. the aircraft wasn t squawking. it wasn t flight planned. it wasn t part of routine airways traffic.
does say, which is true, this disappearance is unprecedented and many many countries would have been challenged by it. certainly we have more clarity from them about what is going to happen in the next week or so. one of the most important pieces of the interview, i thought, is the prime minister saying that military radar tracked an aircraft. they weren t sure that it was flight 370 but it wasn t deemed to be hostile. what do you make of the prime minister s explanation of why they didn t scramble jets, mikey. i thought richard s questions were spot on but i think that the prime minister was economical with the truth. he had to two options. he could declare he didn t see anything, or military radar didn t see anything on the scopes or he could see he did say something or the military radar did see something and didn t act upon it or deemed it not hostile which is a dangerous move in the post 9/11 order. the aircraft wasn t squawking.