if they are in control of the aircraft when you turn the transponder off in the 777 the traffic avoidance system also goes off. nobody else around is going to see it. the only way to see that airplane is on radar. that is what happened when it flew over the island in the straits the military radar sign. the last hit on this airplane heading west. so again that is one possibility. i think my other profession is counter-terrorism and counter insurgency operations. after ten-days of not hearing anything it leads one to the conclusion that you are not going to hear anything. nobody knows but it is looking more like that. all right. colonel, thank you for being with us. with me now former cia covert operative mike baker. good evening, michael. how are you? good evening. what do you think? i am doing well, thank you, judge. what do you think?
malaysia and before vietnam that that handoff kind of added to the inability of any one to practice? it does after the complexity. you are having to talk to two various agencies on what they know. if it had been in malaysian airspace you would be focusing on malaysian air traffic. because they were going to airspace the procedure of that is the aircraft would be talking to svietnamese aircraft. they would say you identify them. they were on the same channel at this point. basically it would be a number which they put on the transformer which would give it a unique trance per quocode and radar picked it up or something along those lines. on the radar screen they have the physical air core cores, you can see the aircraft up and down the specific corridors
who joins us by phone. good evening, captain. good evening, judge. you believe that this crew might have been incapacitated. why do you say that? i think it is pretty apparent that crew or whoever was going to fly the airplane was be unable to do so. whether that was caused by an electro mechanical failure there is some likelihood of it although it is low with an airplane as reliable as a boeing 777 is. it led to multiple system failures fire in the cockpit, these are all indications. we have seen the same set of problems that happen pen with other aircraft because they landed safely didn t even make the news. interesting. you are saying there could have been a fire in the cockpit, obviously if there had been at that point that transponders went off they would have come down to where it was. not necessarily.
at the moment. they don t know what to do next. the families have been holding candlelight vigils. they are extremely angry at the way they are being treated by malaysian airlines they are not getting any information. and when is the chinese government seeing most of the passengers on this aircraft were chinese are they getting any pressure on the malaysian government getting assistance from the family members on the plane? yes, they are. in fact we have had rising tensioning between china and malaysia started. the chinese government is unhappy with the way this is being handled and a special team there to work with malaysians to try to sort this out. terri, thanks so much for joining us. a little later we are going to talk about what these families are going through. anyway the world is watching and waiting as 25 nations now
777 is. it led to multiple system failures fire in the cockpit, these are all indications. we have seen the same set of problems that happen pen with other aircraft because they landed safely didn t even make the news. interesting. you are saying there could have been a fire in the cockpit, obviously if there had been at that point that transponders went off they would have come down to where it was. not necessarily. think about your house. you plug your refrigerator into your wall and there s an electrical fire. you pull the plug out and it stops. each of these systems is plugged into a different power source. they say you smell burning plastic. they camp out before they took off as a long flight to beijing.