former boeing 777 instructor and united airlines pilot captain ross. thank you for being with us this evening. you know the plane better than most. can it just disappear? normally they don t, judge. good evening. but apparently this one did somewhere in thin air. where do you think it is? you know, i wish i knew. at this point, nobody really knows, and i liked what your former guest, jim, said. just because somebody said it pinged seven hours later, not necessarily that s that aircraft. what was that captain? i tend to agree with that? wow. it is definitely verified that is the aircraft we re talking about. well, captain, if indeed the transponders were turned off, and if the is turned off and
it into air space. now, as soon as that goes off, that unique identifier has now gone and if you imagine, there are lots of flights crossing the south china sea. lots of private aircraft out there. simple radar will just pick up lots of blips on the radar. what they re telling us now is that the malaysian military picked up the blips and we know it was this plane. the 777. if both are true, why didn t they go check it out because there was no plan of this plane going on that route. it s very hard to distinguish what an aircraft is on a radar screen without a unique identifier. are you saying is what is the radar of this flight 370 could be the radar of indeed another plane? absolutely. for me, there s no way, unless you re communicating with an aircraft or that aircraft is squawking a unique number, it s
the only thing that is happening is the satellite are trying to catch or vice versa the plane but can t really read data, and send back the data. you re saying that this plane could be anywhere and that it might not be that 777? well, not exactly. you know, this airplane perhaps had about seven hours of fuel on board on takeoff. they normally don t fill up the tanks when they take off for a destination. they calculate how much fuel the aircraft is going to take. so it had about seven hours worth of fuel on board, i presume. it can t go very farther than an. seven hour circle from destination. we don t exactly know, obviously, right now where it is. but, okay. if they say believe the last
towards the malacca strait. the last ping was at 8:11 a.m., which is two hours after the scheduled landing time of it landing in beijing. and you know, given that, there is now a confirming i believe, a confirmation that the malaysian military knew that this plane was flying. it didn t scramble any jets, even though it was making all these rather unusual turns. is that, does that pique your c curiosity? in some ways, it doesn t. it has four unique digits. so, if i m the pilot of the 370 heading towards china, as i m approaching chinese sovereign air space, chinese radar is going to say to me, hey, 370, squawk 2614 for identification. when you get i.d.ed, they clear
former boeing 777 instructor and united airlines pilot captain ross. thank you for being with us this evening. you know the plane better than most. can it just disappear? normally they don t, judge. good evening. but apparently this one did somewhere in thin air. where do you think it is? you know, i wish i knew. at this point, nobody really knows, and i liked what your former guest, jim, said. just because somebody said it pinged seven hours later, not necessarily that s that aircraft. what was that captain? i tend to agree with that? wow. it is definitely verified that is the aircraft we re talking about. well, captain, if indeed the transponders were turned off, and if the is turned off and