alert. did the missing malaysian airlines jet make a stealth move before it vanished into thin air? a malaysian newspaper reporting the 777 dropped to altitudes as low as a thousand feet to avoid radar detection. officials telling the newspaper the plane may have mugged mountainous areas to avoid radar very dangerous move. matt robinson and former 777 pilot dickson. that newspaper report in any way ring true for you? we will see. i m very skeptical, greta. at night, hugging the terrain, even in a military aircraft is is a varsity move here. it takes a lot of training, a lot of experience and practice to do that and pull it off successfully. without training, in an aircraft of this size, good luck to you. jesse, let me ask you specifically about the 777. as i understand it, from talking, doing research, it has two elt, emergency locater transponders which will send a signal to a
uttered those words or after. joining us crash investigator matt robinson and former 777 pilot jesse bicson. welcome to both of you. if you wanted to evade radar as a former 777 pilot, could you do that? is that typical training of a 777 pilot? how could you go about preparing yourself to do this? well, it s not typical training and they don t teach us how to evade radar. but as pilots we do know what is required to have an aircraft intear interrogated from the corridor. the acar system is crucial because that acar system is basicalli gives a position report to the company as to what altitude, what airspeed and, key, how much fuel you have on that airplane at that particular time matt, at the same time, if you
either it landed safely some place or controversy of whether or not it hit the water. you told me something about the salt water would activate it i actually was and you know far more about this than i do. when you hit water, doesn t that give you a huge impact? it s not a soft landing. why wouldn t it be set off when you slam into the water? just as that instant? it goes head first, i assume? well, actually the elts are located in the airplane. that s generally one in the front part of the cabin and one in the rear of the cabin. a hard landing or whatever would not set it off. generally, it takes that salt water emergent to set this off. you can activate those elts manually but i have never heard. have you ever heard of an elt not working, jesse? is there any way a pilot could turn that elt off? he can t turn it off that i know of. he just it doesn t have to be activated but it will
activate automatically once it hits the water. once the water is emerged over it. greta, if i may for a second. yeah. it s not the elt that activated by the salt water it is the underwater acoustic beacon that s activated by the salt water. it s been referred to as the pinger. it doesn t make a ping sound. it s more of a ticking noise under water. but that doesn t go to the satellite. that doesn t that s a noise. it doesn t go to the satellite, right? nope. the elt goes to the satellite. jesse, do you agree with us that the elt goes to the satellite? the ping is just a noise? yes. i agree. i think that s correct. all right. so now he we are back to my earlier question is that whether when you i mean, it s crashing on land that causes the elt to activate because it s such a hard landing. it hits so hard is that it sends a signal up to the satellite. so i guess my question is that instant it hits water,
number one and how much study would you have to do to do that. one of the theories. trying to figure out like how difficult is that and do you have to study hard? what do you you have to know? it s a great question that there is no way the layperson without any training can get up there and do. this especially turning off the transponder, let alone just finding the transponder n. all of the instrument banks, et cetera. then he would have to have some rudimentary radar in existence and operational in the various countries. highly involved. very systematic take place here to conduct this. jesse, how about you? if i gave you a couple months. six months. radar in that region? it were first of all you have to realize that once