these things are completely irrelevant to the investigation. and these dribs and drabs come out and said in a fashion that makes it sound like they're incriminating but they aren't. let's not forget that. and really, frankly, nothing can be ruled out now. most every scenario you come up with you can run it through. some of the more plausible than others. frankly, the crew being responsible for this is a very plausible scenario but one of many that are still possible. >> let me go to les abend. you are the pilot here. you fly 777s. paint for me a picture where if the pilot, as some people suspect, took this plane off for whatever reason, what happened? in other words, is it possible that he could have shut down all communication, turned off the transponders, acars system? et cetera. could he have done that and taken this plane off in the way that we now know potentially