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aviation fleet. you were talking earlier about the numbers of take-offs and landings all around the world using this aircraft type. what we see from not just this aircraft type but all of our transport category aircraft is that they are incredibly safe. they have a tremendous safety record. it gets better every year when you talk about reliability and performance of the aircraft. but we have to understand when we have events like this we have to understand what happened why it happened and how we can prevent something like this from occurring in the future. and i think until we find that wreckage we still have a lot of unanswered questions. seems like we are in this age of being in constant contact with other human beings certainly, at any given minute every few minutes, a lot of us are touching base with someone and yet when it comes to airplanes, there seem to be these gaps. why aren t there better realtime tracking devices on commercial
across its wings. if indeed it was 105 knots, that would certainly be a very slow air speed and if that was the case to me no pilot is going to fly transport category aircraft at that speed intentionally. so something possibly could have gone wrong, maybe analogous, similar to the air france 447 a-330 accident in 2009. it s hard to speculate at this point in time. we just don t have enough information. alastair you ve written that this plane will be found, that this is not going to remain a mystery. how certain are you and why do you say that? well you know i m not absolutely certain, but historically we do find the aircraft. the malaysia mh-370 was rather an exception. the main reason is that they