So it begs the question about the international standard for background checks, does it not?

It, it certainly does.

Um, and many countries sign up to what's called, uh, the Chicago Convention, uh, which is, uh, under the auspices of ICAO, the international regulator, if you like.

Australia's certainly a signa- a signatory to the, uh, the Chicago Convention.

And one of the an- annexes in the Chicago Convention talks about, uh, regular background, background checks of pilots.

And so, um, a- across the world, uh, th- these do occur, and if I focus here on Australia, we have what's called the ASIC check, the A-S-I-C.

Okay.

Uh, but certainly what airlines do is they're responsible for competency of the pilot.

Right.

And so, of course, the FAA and, and many others introduced new regulations to require these doors to be substantially, um, secured, uh, to manage that risk.

But of course, there are new risks emerging, and, and what we see now is, is the trusting relationship between pilots is, is now emerging as a new risk.

So it begs the question about the international standard for background checks, does it not?

It, it certainly does.

Um, and many countries sign up to what's called, uh, the Chicago Convention, uh, which is, uh, under the auspices of ICAO, the international regulator, if you like.

Australia's certainly a signa- a signatory to the, uh, the Chicago Convention.

And one of the an- annexes in the Chicago Convention talks about, uh, regular background, background checks of pilots.

Mm.

But maybe if I just describe what I've been looking at on the radar trace for the last five to 10 minutes or so, what we see is the aircraft cruising at about, uh, 35,000 feet, uh, uneventfully for most of the flight.

There is some reports that they did report a navigation issue, and we don't know what that means, and a navigation issue wouldn't ordinarily lead to what we see on a radar.

So we're not sure how that issue may or may not relate to what we've seen, but we see the aircraft cruising at around about 35,000 feet, and then at about 150 miles before it gets to Karachi, there is a very rapid loss of altitude and a very sharp right-hand turn.

So that, I guess, appears like it's a, a very sudden un- unexplained loss of control, which has happened very, very quickly.

What's caused that? Obviously, it's too early to say.

What, what do you know about that and the movements of ai- airplanes?

Yeah.