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in some ways we re all looking for clarity here. all this stuff just raises more questions. so let me just drill down on that. the pings from one of the communications devices indicate that the plane essentially plummets 40,000 feet in the span of a minute. is that even possible? well, american officials didn t believe it when they were told it. they said it didn t make any sense to them. and what happens is that the americans only have so much insight into the investigation. and the only stuff they really have is the stuff that s coming off the radar and their own sort of military imagery and such. the investigative information that the malaysian have about folks that were on the plane and other things that may have gone into that has not really been shared with folks here in washington. that s begun to frustrate them. so the u.s. only has so much visibility into what s going on. and i just want to highlight what you just said. that s a stunning part of the story that you wrote
information has been far less than probably a lot of people in the united states believe, that officials that you ve heard from have been very frustrated by the lack of information they ve been getting from malaysian authorities. because the ntsb and faa have so much experience in this, they have ways of getting information from different manufacturers and such that receive basically pings that came off of this plane. so in that sense they have some that information the u.s. says has gotten better and better over the past few days, and they anticipate will get better going into the weekend. but in the investigative side, the malaysian have sort of kept the u.s. at a distance. and the u.s. basically says well, we re incredibly good at this stuff. we ve done a lot of this before. why don t you let us in. but that really hasn t happened yet. so michael, again from your reporting from multiple sources you re hearing that the plane after it lost contact and was supposed to be around 35,
having power steering. it s a very easy, docile airplane to fly. and a lot of the big airplanes are that way because it s basically like power steering. now, the changing of altitudes and stuff that went on, i don t think it dropped as fast as it did in reality. but somebody that sat down in the seat and took the controls would change altitude like that playing a little bit trying to get the handle of it. but the point that i want to come back and defend the crew is, that if this airplane flew somewhere and landed, they would have needed the captain and the first officer to do that. because the people that took over in airplane didn t have the skills to really fly that airplane in the proper parameters that it needed to be flown in now boeing when they built this airplane they said look, if you fly within these parameters, this airplane is safe and you won t have any problem. if you fly outside these parameters, the airplane could come apart. this is true with all airplanes that you fl
put it on auto pilot. it happened in operational flying all the time. the captain goes to the bathroom or for whatever reason one pilot leaves the cockpit and the other pilot is sitting here monitoring. not necessarily flying the airplane but monitoring the auto pilot. reporter: you could at least in this practical nature put it on auto pilot. yes, you re going to leave the plane and go down below. it could be done by one. appreciate you guys being in the cockpit showing us what it s like. richard just briefly, again they re reiterating. got to take all this stuff with a grain of salt. take it with a grain of saw. as we ve said all week, you keep looking for pieces of the jigsaw to be put on the table. tonight we have more pieces of the jigsaw on the table starting to form a picture. that s the significance of what s happened in the last few hours. based on reporting from cnn and also the wall street journal and new york times today. we ll be right back. i m beth.