This morning on sunday was around 11:41 a.m. eastern time that it departed. about two hours later it went missing, lost from the radar. it was about well, short time ago this evening that they reported that the flight was missing. made it public. they said that they had tried to communicate with the pilot by various means, unsuccessfully. on the phone with us among others tonight has been scott hamilton. he is a 777 boeing expert and has been very interesting to talk to about this very safe aircraft. scott, you know, almost everybody listening to this program right now watch thinking program has been in an aircraft. and you get on airplanes these days and even people who are fearful of flying have to be comforted by the stats. knowing how safe airline travel is. however, once in a while you know, statistics are great until you become one of them. and it is going to be i think