don t have knowledge. it did. it did, okay. so that is available. in other words, it s a matter of equipping it to make the transmissions. should it be mandated jeff? well you have to ask yourself, well, in what situation would it be provide information that we wouldn t otherwise have. in this case we have all the information that air traffic kroers normally have the plane. the transresponder as les has been talking about. and the question that s been very interesting for me is why did we lose contact with the plane. was it some kind of electron cal failure at altitude or what? and with some analysis some people online have done it turns out the reason we lost contact was simply because the plane got too low. i should point out that these systems require line of sight between the radar installation and the plane. and if you get too low, you just simply go below the curvature of the earth and that seems to be what happened here. you get below, the plane was about 200 miles awa