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ALL THE TIME AND TALKS TO THE
PILOTS.
WE KNOW IT BETTER.
YOU HAVE TO WONDER WHY CAN'T YOU
JUST PUT A MICROPHONE IN THE
WATER?
>> IN THEORY THAT'S WHAT THEY
ARE GOING TO DO.
THAT'S WHY THE NEW VESSELS THAT
ARE HEADING INTO THE AREA HAVE
MORE SOPHISTICATED SONAR AND
THAT WILL PUT A PROBE INTO THE
WATER.
LISTENING TO BRIAN, ON THE ISSUE
OF TRACKING WHERE THIS PLANE IS,
THEY SHOULD KNOW WHERE THE PLANE
IS BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE RADAR
TRACK.
THE RADAR SHOWED THIS PARTICULAR
BODY OF WATER IS TRULY OVER
RADAR.
YOU HAVE THE MALAYSIAN AND
VIETNAMESE SIDE AND THE
INDONESIANS.
THERE IS PLENTY OF RADAR
COVERAGE IN THE AREA.
THE UNKNOWN HERE AND THIS IS THE
UNKNOWN, WHY THIS RADAR HAS NOT
LED THEM TO WHAT'S CLOSER IF YOU
ARE WHERE THE PLANE IS.
THOSE MESSAGES BRIAN WAS TALKING
ABOUT THAT WERE SENT FROM AIR
FRANCE, THIS IS A LIST OF THEM.
THERE 24 OF THEM.
AS THE PLANE STARTED TO DEGRADE
AND THE SYSTEM STARTED, THE
PLANE SUPPORT OUT THESE
MESSAGES.
A STATUS FOLD.
THE CAPTAIN.
AGAIN AND AGAIN, THEY WERE BEING
TOLD TO THE AIRLINE.
WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING LIKE
THIS.
THAT'S THE PROBLEM.
IT'S NOT THAT IT DOESN'T HAVE
THE CAPACITY TO TELL US, IT IS
FOR SOME REASON IT DIDN'T.
>> YOU MAKE A POINT.
THERE IS ACTIVE AND PASSIVE.
THE SIGNAL THE PLANE IS SENDING
OUT AND IT'S PASSIVE AND A BIG
PLANE.
HOW CAN IT NOT PICK UP AN
AIRLINER AND EVEN AS IT CAME
INTO PIECES.
THAT SEEMS UNPRECEDENTED.
YOU WOULDN'T HAVE HAD THAT
COVERAGE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE
ATLANTIC OCEAN I ASSUME.
>> NO.
THERE IS NO RADAR COVERAGE OVER
THE ATLANTIC OR THE PACIFIC.
IT'S DONE BY TRACKS OR TIMES,
BUT IT'S A SOPHISTICATED SYSTEM.
IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD, I WAS
LOOKING A MOMENT, ABOUT A HALF
HOUR AGO, I WAS LOOKING AT THE
MALAYSIAN AIR RADAR SYSTEM AND
AT THE VIETNAMESE SYSTEM.
THERE IS AN OVERLAPPING AREA.
THE MALAYSIANS GO FOR 200 MILES
AND THE VIETNAMESE GO FOR 200
MILES WITH THE RADAR COVERAGE.
THE GULF OF THAILAND IS LESS
THAN 250 OR SO MILES ACROSS.
THERE IS PLENTY OF RADAR
COVERAGE.
WE KNOW FROM THE TRACK THAT WE
HAVE SEEN THAT THE PLANES WERE
GOING.
WE WERE TOLD THAT IT WAS
TURNING.
WHAT WE DON'T KNOW IS WHY THIS
INFORMATION INSTANTLY CAME TO AN
END.
THE UNPALATABLE TRUTH OF THIS IS
WE WON'T SEE, WE WON'T KNOW
UNTIL WE FIND THE PLANE.
THE PLANE DIDN'T SEND OUT A LIST
OF THIS IS GOING WRONG AS IT DID