investigation and this search can be carried out in a way that delivers results for all the interested parties. >> all right. we appreciate your insight. you are at least trying to frame this with the block of salt we should be taking as we try to figure out what happened to this flight. someone else who has some interesting theories is a gentleman by the name of jim tilmon, one of our cnn aviation contributors, a former pilot with american. jim, thanks for being with us. so does that change your opinion? you, i think, were about to float sort of a more extreme theory about what happened to this plane. are you going to go with that or are you going to pull back? >> bill, i don't know what to believe. i've heard just about everything you can imagine. it's like somebody is writing children's stories without any concern for the kids. i've got to tell you that this whole thing is so perplexing that i've left a lot of my thinking about the details of what happened before the