any final comments on that? yes. it depends on whether they were in a radar environment or a non-radar environment. if they re in a non-radar environment, the flight crew would be required to report their position at particular navigation wait points. we ll be looking for that. and i m sorry, thank you so much for joining us, patrick smith and anthony roman, we ll be following these details as details come in. thank you very much. ven stay strong! what s that? you want me to eat you? honey, he didn t say that! he did, very quietly. you can t hear from back there! don t fight your instincts. with each 150 calories or less, try our chocolatey brownies, tangy lemon bars and new creamy cheesecakes. fiber one. go on, have one! to breathe with copd?ow hard it can be it can feel like this.
but if it was a dire situation, whatever they had enunciated on their panels they may not have had time to get it out or it was attempted and they weren t able to communicate because of the situation itself. absolutely that is a great radar environment there. they have all the sophistication that we have here in the states. i ve flown out of barcelona. you re always in radar contact for the most part. and there should have been some ability to communicate with somebody on the ground. les abend, mary schiavo, stand by. much more coming up on the breaking news. when we come back it s very mountainous, this area it s snow-covered, extremely dangerous. that s what emergency crews now face as they make their way to the crash site. and later, israel is accused of spying on those u.s./iranian nuclear talks. we ll tell you what the israeli
should i be afraid? should i just go about and do what i normally do? look, i get on a plane now and i m thinking to myself, okay. check my, you know my little life vest. think about what i m going to do. do you do that when you get in a cab? i put my seat belt on. i take cabs all the time. it s more dangerous to take a cab in new york city than to fly. of course. the old lightning axiom and getting hit by lightning. besides, your operating most of the time in a radar environment where you re constantly being tracked regardless. this is a different part of the world t. is such an anomaly and, again, as we ve said, there s not been this intensity in a search since amelia earhart. do you believe something like this could potentially happen again? how crucial is it that we know what happened so that we don t have another plane flying off into another ocean? actually, dr. arnot, let me ask you. go ahead. well, it s crucial, there has been this fire theory. of course, we know th
else? if it was a mistake, i m sure the air traffic controllers would have come on and challenged the crew and said to the crew, hey, you re deviating. wake up. and it would have been corrected that easily. i don t think it would have made that mistake so basic loo begin with. if they did, there would have been some protection there. and on the waypoint, the waypoints, maybe the reason it s so far off course, what that says, they were no longer concerned with beijing. whether that was because there was something more pressing or because they were had a different objective, i don t know. but they were no longer concerned with beijing. and captain abend is nodding his head in agreement with you. but the assertion about air traffic control getting aled who of you, noticing you re putting in a different course. if that indeed would happen, if they were in a radar
to do this. it s not just an airport code. you could put in way points, points in the sky. white triangles are all way points. that s a small samples. he can pick any of those and deebate to any of those. eventually, you could put in in you have to plan an entire route to go can the whole way. until you get an airport. is nina lerted when you change the direction outside the cockpit? well, if you, if you re just punching in keystrokes, no one is going to be alerted. but they will if you re in a radar environment, if you re on radar, they re going to notice you turning off course and challenge that. if you re not in a radar environment, they re not going to know. all right. mitchell, thank you very much. martin, thank you. we re going to be back with both of you in a few moments as we go through some of the key theories that are surfacing on what