Bush scott walker and all the rest? plus it s like earth was taking a selfie. and the moon decided to photo bomb it. new pictures of our planet from a million miles away. let s get to it. good afternoon, from the fox news desk. the malaysian prime minister confirms what we have known for a week now, part of that missing malaysian airlines jet washed ashore on remote island in the indian ocean. it was always the only conclusion. since there is but one missing boeing 777 in all the world. still, the news does not solve one of aviation s biggest mysteries. the wing part does not tell us why the jet went down whether it was a malfunction or something criminal. it does not explain why the jet s transresponder went dark during the flight from kuala lumpur to beijing. and we still do not know about
So for the first 40 minutes of this flight, up to that point, everything has been routine. mm-hmm, yes. everything was routine until now. two minutes after talking with air traffic control, 40 minutes into the flight, the plane s transponder goes dark. the plane s transponder is effectively the instrument by which sends out a signal to air traffic control. it tells you what height it s at, which direction, and what speed it s traveling. suddenly, this giant 777 is blind to the world. and there s no easy explanation for why it happened. either it was intentional and someone tried to turn all of those systems off at once, or the pilot was unable to communicate, kept from communicating, or there was a mechanical failure of some kind that took all those systems out at one time. then, muninutes after the transresponder stops, the 777 makes an unexpected turn,
Come on, russia, what are you doing? aggression in the skies. u.s. officials say one of president putin s pilots flew entirely too close to a u.s. plane. a pentagon spokesman says officials are filing complaint to moscow, which should work out perfectly. this happened last week at the international air space in international air spares north of pole land over the baltic sea. a fighter jet came up unbehind one our planes at high speed and then passed dangerously close at least twice. russia is arguing the u.s. plane turned off its transresponder, the device that signals the plane s location. the pentagon denies that claiming this is part of a recent russian pattern of address as analysts say russia continues to arm the rebels in ukraine. that country was the scene of new fighting over the weekend following months of, well, relative calm after the cease
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
Made some recommendations, but nothing s been passed nothing s been implemented. and this is another wakeup call when you have an aircraft flying transoceanic flights, how do you track them on a more continue stand baysisbasis. initially it seems that weather was reported whether that truly was a factor we re still waiting to see. the difference between mh 370 and this. mh 370, there were mysterious things that have happened the turning off of the acar system the turning off of the transresponder the secret turn of the aircraft. in this case you had normal communications with the pilot, a line of weather that appeared to be pretty difficult, severe and he was asking to climb as high